NCAR Climate Data Guide Content with Tag: AMSRE

CMORPH (CPC MORPHing technique): High resolution precipitation (60S-60N)

Years of Record: 2002/12 to 2017/10

"CMORPH (CPC MORPHing technique) produces global precipitation analyses at very high spatial and temporal resolution. This technique uses precipitation estimates that have been derived from low orbiter satellite microwave observations exclusively, and whose features are transported via spatial...

Main variables and Earth System components:

Atmosphere | Precipitation

Formats: netCDF | binary Timestep: Sub-daily,Daily Domain: Global

Liquid Water Path (LWP): UWisc climatology

Years of Record: 1998/01 to 2008/12

"This work describes a new climatology of cloud liquid water path (LWP), termed the University of Wisconsin (UWisc) climatology, derived from 18 yr of satellite-based passive microwave observations over the global oceans. The climatology is based on a modern retrieval methodology applied...

Main variables and Earth System components:

Atmosphere | Liquid Water Path | Precipitable water

Formats: netCDF Timestep: Climatology,Monthly Domain: Global

Sea Ice Concentration data from AMSR-E, AMSR2 & SSMIS, U Bremen and U Hamburg ASI algorithm

Years of Record: 2002/06 to 2011/10

The sea ice data derived from AMSR-E using the ARTIST sea ice (ASI) algorithm offer a factor of 4 finer spatial resolution than most sea ice data sets from passive microwave satellite instruments. ASI is based on the difference of vertically and horizontally polarized brightness temperatures at 89...

Main variables and Earth System components:

Cryosphere | Sea Ice Concentration | Ocean

Formats: netCDF | HDF | GeoTIFF Timestep: Daily Domain: NH - Northern Hemisphere, SH - Southern Hemisphere, Antarctic, Arctic

Sea Ice Concentration data from NASA Goddard and NSIDC using AMSR-E and NASA TEAM2 (NT2) algorithm

Years of Record: 2002/06 to 2011/10

The AMSR-E/NASA Team 2 (NT2) data set of Arctic and Antarctic sea ice concentration is available at daily timesteps and 12.5 km (optionally 25km) spatial resolution for 2002-2011. NT2, an extension of the original NASA Team algorithm, uses AMSR-E 89GHz channels to help resolve ambiguity between low...

Main variables and Earth System components:

Cryosphere | Sea Ice Concentration | Ocean

Formats: HDF-EOS Timestep: Daily Domain: Antarctic, Arctic

Snow Water Equivalent (AMSR-E)

Years of Record: 2002/06 to 2011/10

The Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer-Earth Observing System (AMSR-E) distributes daily, weekly, and monthly products which includes snow water equivalent. Note: "On 04 October 2011, the AMSR-E instrument on board the Aqua satellite stopped producing data due to a problem with the rotation of...

Main variables and Earth System components:

Cryosphere | Snow Water Equivalent

Formats: HDF-EOS Timestep: Daily,Monthly,Weekly Domain: NH - Northern Hemisphere

Climate Data Guide Image: AMSR-E: Standard error of 'tos' (SST) for July 2006.

SST (AMSR-E): Sea Surface Temperature from Remote Sensing Systems

Years of Record: 2002/06 to 2010/12

High resolution (0.25°) SSTs were derived from the AMSR-E, a passive microwave radiometer flying on NASA's AQUA satellite. Remote Sensing Systems distributes the data in high spatial and temporal (daily, weekly, monthly) resolutions for both daytime and nighttime averages. Monthly versions are...

Main variables and Earth System components:

Ocean | SST - sea surface temperature

Formats: netCDF | binary Timestep: Daily,Monthly,Weekly Domain: Global

SST data: NOAA High-resolution (0.25x0.25) Blended Analysis of Daily SST and Ice, OISSTv2

Years of Record: 1981/09 to 2018/08

"NOAA’s Optimum Interpolation Sea Surface temperature (OISST, also known as Reynolds’ SST) is a series of global analysis products, including the weekly OISST on a 1° grid to the more recent daily on a ¼° grid. An SST analysis is a spatially gridded product created by interpolating and...

Main variables and Earth System components:

Cryosphere | Sea Ice Concentration | Ocean | SST - sea surface temperature