National Snow & Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center

nasa-nsidcdaac-ae_rngd

AMSR-E/Aqua Monthly L3 5x5 deg Rainfall Accumulations

The Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer - Earth Observing System (AMSR-E) instrument on the NASA EOS Aqua satellite provides global passive microwave measurements of terrestrial, oceanic, and atmospheric variables for the investigation of water and energy cycles. This Level-3 rainfall accumulation product (AE_RnGd) consists of two grids of 28 rows by 72 columns of monthly averaged rainfall accumulation over ocean and land. Both grids are 5 degree by 5 degree resolution. Monthly ocean rainfall accumulation (mm) is derived from the Wilheit, Kummerow, and Ferraro (1991) algorithm, using Level-2A brightness temperatures as input. Monthly land rainfall accumulation (mm) is derived from the McCollum and Ferraro (2003) algorithm, using Level-2B rainfall data as input. Data are stored in HDF-EOS format, and are available from 19 June 2002 to 1 October 2011 via FTP.

http://nsidc.org/data/AE_RnGd

Identified by : AE_RnGd

This dataset was released on January 01, 2004.

The time range for this dataset is June 19, 2002 to October 01, 2011.

The spatial range for this dataset is -70° to 70° latitude, and -180° to 180° longitude. map (center)

This dataset uses data from an instance of the advanced-microwave-scanning-radiometer-eos instrument on the aqua platform.
DOI : 10.5067/AMSR-E/AE_RNGD.002
Also known as :

• dataset oai:nsidc/AE_RnGd (nsidc lexicon)