Related URL

Link: VIEW PROJECT HOME PAGE Description: AMSR-E Web site at NSIDC Link: VIEW RELATED INFORMATION Description: NASA AMSR-E Web site

Geographic Coverage

N: 70.0

S: -70.0

E: 180.0

W: -180.0

Data Set Citation

Dataset Originator/Creator: R. Adler, T. Wilheit, Jr., C. Jummerow, R. Ferraro Dataset Title: AMSR-E/Aqua L2B Global Swath Rain Rate/Type GSFC Profiling Algorithm Dataset Release Date: 2007-06-11Updated daily. Dataset Release Place: Boulder, Colorado USA Dataset Publisher: National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) Version: 2 Online Resource: http://nsidc.org/data/ae_rain.html

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 2002-06-18

Location Keywords

GEOGRAPHIC REGION > GLOBAL

Data Resolution

Latitude Resolution: 5.4 km Longitude Resolution: 5.4 km Temporal Resolution: 50 minutes

Science Keywords

ATMOSPHERE >PRECIPITATION >PRECIPITATION RATE    [Definition]

ATMOSPHERE >PRECIPITATION >RAIN    [Definition]

ISO Topic Category

CLIMATOLOGY/METEOROLOGY/ATMOSPHERE

Platform

AQUA >Earth Observing System, AQUA    [Information]

Instrument

AMSR-E >Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer-EOS    [Information]

Project

EOS >Earth Observing System    [Information]

EOSDIS >Earth Observing System Data Information System    [Information]

ESIP >Earth Science Information Partners Program    [Information]

CWIC >CEOS WGISS Integrated Catalog    [Information]

Quality

Each HDF-EOS file contains core metadata with Quality Assessment (QA) metadata flags that are set by the Science Investigator-led Processing System (SIPS) at the Global Hydrology and Climate Center (GHCC) prior to delivery to NSIDC. A separate metadata file with a .xml file extension is also delivered to NSIDC with the HDF-EOS file, and it contains the same information as the core metadata. Three levels of QA are conducted with the AMSR-E Level 2 and 3 products: automatic, operational, and science. If a product does not fail QA, it is ready to be used for higher-level processing, browse generation, active science QA, archive, and distribution. If a granule fails QA, SIPS does not send the granule to NSIDC until it is reprocessed. Level-3 products that fail QA are never delivered to NSIDC (Conway 2002).

Keywords

AE_Rain

AMSR-E

Aqua

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES

Convective Precipitation

Convective Rainfall

DAAC

EOS PM-1

EOSDIS

Ferraro algorithm

GSFC

GSFC profiling algorithm

Imagery

Latent Heat Release

NASA

NSIDC

Passive Microwave

Precipitation Rate

Precipitation Type

Radiance

Rain Over Land

Rain Over Oceans

Rain Rate

Rain Type

Remote Sensing

Stratiform Precipitation

Stratiform Rainfall

Surface Rainfall

Tb

Data Set Progress

IN WORK

Data Center

NSIDC Distributed Active Archive Center    [Information] Data Center URL: http://nsidc.org/daac/index.html Dataset ID: AE_Rain Data Center Personnel Name: NSIDC USER SERVICES Phone: +1 (303) 492-6199 Fax: +1 (303) 492-2468 Email: nsidc at nsidc.org Contact Address: National Snow and Ice Data Center CIRES, 449 UCB University of Colorado City: Boulder Province or State: CO Postal Code: 80309-0449 Country: USA

NSIDC Distributed Active Archive Center    [Information] Data Center URL: http://nsidc.org/daac/index.html Data Center Personnel Name: NSIDC USER SERVICES Phone: +1 (303) 492-6199 Fax: +1 (303) 492-2468 Email: nsidc at nsidc.org Contact Address: National Snow and Ice Data Center CIRES, 449 UCB University of Colorado City: Boulder Province or State: CO Postal Code: 80309-0449 Country: USA

Distribution

Distribution_Media: FTP Distribution_Size: approx. 18 MB per half-orbit granule Distribution_Format: HDF-EOS

Personnel

NSIDC USER SERVICES Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT Phone: +1 (303) 492-6199 Fax: +1 (303) 492-2468 Email: nsidc at nsidc.org Contact Address: National Snow and Ice Data Center CIRES, 449 UCB University of Colorado City: Boulder Province or State: CO Postal Code: 80309-0449 Country: USA

THOMAS WILHEIT, JR. Role: INVESTIGATOR Contact Address: Department of Atmospheric Sciences Texas A&M University 3150 TAMU City: College Park Province or State: TX Postal Code: 77843-3150

CHRISTIAN KUMMEROW Role: INVESTIGATOR Phone: +1 (970) 491-7473 Fax: +1 (970) 491-8449 Email: kummerow at atmos.colostate.edu Contact Address: Department of Atmospheric Science Colorado State University 200 West Lake Street City: Fort Collins Province or State: CO Postal Code: 80523 Country: USA

RALPH FERRARO Role: INVESTIGATOR Email: Ralph.Ferraro at noaa.gov Contact Address: ESSIC/CICS 2207 Computer and Space Sciences Building University of Maryland City: College Park Province or State: MD Country: USA

ROBERT ADLER Role: INVESTIGATOR Phone: 301-614-6290 Fax: 301-614-5492 Email: Robert.F.Adler at nasa.gov Contact Address: Mesoscale Atmospheric Processes Branch Laboratory for Atmospheres NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Code 613 USA City: Greenbelt Province or State: MD Postal Code: 20771 Country: USA