Abstract:
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 global water and energy cycles.
These near real-time (NRT) products are generated within 3 hours of the last observations in the file, by the
... Land Atmosphere Near real-time Capability for EOS (LANCE) at the AMSR-E Science Investigator-led Processing System (AMSR-E SIPS). The AMSR-E/Aqua Level-2B rain product includes instantaneous rain rate and rain type over ice-free and snow-free land and ocean between 70 degrees north and south latitudes at 5.4 km, generated by the GPROF algorithm using Level-2A TBs. Data are stored in HDF-EOS format, and are available via FTP from the LANCE system.
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