National Snow & Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center

nasa-nsidcdaac-ae_sid

AMSR-E/Aqua Daily L3 6.25 km Sea Ice Drift Polar Grids

The Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer - Earth Observing System (AMSR-E) instrument on the NASA Earth Observing System (EOS) Aqua satellite provides global passive microwave measurements of land, ocean, and atmospheric variables for the investigation of water and energy cycles. This Level-3 gridded product (AE_SID) includes sea ice speed and direction generated by applying the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) wavelet transform algorithm to AMSR-E brightness temperatures. Daily drift data are averaged over five-day intervals and are mapped to a polar stereographic grid at 6.25 km spatial resolution. Drift parameters sea ice speed and direction were determined using the 89 GHz Horizontal (H) channel of the AMSR-E L3 6.25 km brightness temperature product. Data are stored in HDF-EOS format and are available from 01 June 2011 to 3 October 2011 via FTP.

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http://nsidc.org/data/AE_SID

Identified by : AE_SID

This dataset was released on June 23, 2011.

The time range for this dataset is June 01, 2011 to October 03, 2011.

The spatial range for this dataset is 30.98° to 90° 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_SID.001
Also known as :

• dataset oai:nsidc/AE_SID (nsidc lexicon)