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LPRM_AMSR2_D_SOILM3

AMSR2/GCOM-W1 surface soil moisture (LPRM) L3 1 day 25 km x 25 km descending V001 (LPRM_AMSR2_D_SOILM3) at GES DISC

AMSR2/GCOM-W1 surface soil moisture (LPRM) L3 1 day 25 km x 25 km descending V001 is a Level 3 (gridded) data set. Its land surface parameters, surface soil moisture, land surface (skin) temperature, and vegetation water content, are derived from passive microwave remote sensing data from the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 (AMSR2), using the Land Parameter Retrieval Model (LPRM). There are two files per day, one ascending (daytime) and one descending (nighttime), archived as two different products. This document is for the nighttime product. The data set covers the period from May 2012, when the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Global Change Observation Mission-1st Water GCOM-W1 satellite was launched, to the present. The LPRM is based on a forward radiative transfer model to retrieve surface soil moisture and vegetation optical depth. The land surface temperature is derived separately from the AMSR2's Ka-band (36.5 GHz). A unique feature of this method is that it can be applied at any microwave frequency, making it very suitable to exploit all the available passive microwave data from various satellites. Input data are from the AMSR2 spatial-resolution-matched brightness temperatures (L1SGRTBR) product, nighttime passes, as processed using LPRM (i.e., LPRM/AMSR2/GCOM-W1 Level 2 product, LPRM_AMSR2_SOILM2_V001).

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Bounding Rectangle:

N: 90.0 S: -90.0 E: 180.0 W: -180.0

Data Format(s):

Distribution: netCDF

Temporal Extent:

2012-07-03 to now

Platform(s):

GCOM-W1

Data Center(s):

NASA/GSFC/SED/ESD/GCDC/GESDISC

Instrument(s):

AMSR2

Version:

001

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Title: AMSR2/GCOM-W1 surface soil moisture (LPRM) L3 1 day 25 km x 25 km descending V001
Version: 001
Creator: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Richard de Jeu) and NASA GSFC (Manfred Owe)
Editor: Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC) (Bill Teng)
Publisher: Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC)
Release Date: 2014-09-15T00:00:00.000Z
Linkage: https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datacollection/LPRM_AMSR2_D_SOILM3_001.html

READ-ME: https://hydro1.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/data/WAOB/LPRM_AMSR2_D_SOILM3.001/doc/README_LPRM.pdf, README Document
GENERAL DOCUMENTATION: https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/information/documents?title=Hydrology%20Documentation, GES DISC Hydrology Documentation
GENERAL DOCUMENTATION: https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/information/tools?title=Hydrology%20Data%20Rods, GES DISC Data Rods Documentation

DOI
doi:10.5067/CGDEOBASZ178
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Data Dates

Creation	2014-09-17T00:00:00.000Z
Last Revision	2014-09-17T00:00:00.000Z

Processing Level

Quality The LPRM/AMSR2 data are sensitive to both internal model limitations and external processes and are screened for radio frequency interference, the presence of snow/frozen soils, water, and dense vegetation covers. All screened-out data pixels are flagged and indicated by a non-data value. A soil moisture uncertainty parameter at both C and X bands is included (Parinussa et al., 2011).

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Publication References

Title: Multisensor historical climatology of satellite-derived global land surface moisture

Publication Date: 2008-01-01

Author(s): Owe, M., R. de Jeu, and T. Holmes

Series: Journal of Geophysical Research

Volume: 113

Issue: F01002

Pages: 17 pp.

DOI: 10.1029/2007JF000769
Title: Global soil moisture patterns observed by space borne microwave radiometers and scatterometers

Publication Date: 2008-01-01

Author(s): De Jeu, R.A.M., W. Wagner, T.R.H. Holmes, A.J. Dolman, N.C. van de Giesen, and J. Friesen

Series: Surveys in Geophysics

Volume: 29

Pages: 399-420

DOI: 10.1007/s10712-008-9044-0
Title: Land surface temperature from Ka band (37 GHz) passive microwave observations

Publication Date: 2009-01-01

Author(s): Holmes, T.R.H., R.A.M. De Jeu, M. Owe, and A.J. Dolman

Series: Journal of Geophysical Research

Volume: 114

Issue: D04113

Pages: 15 pp.

DOI: 10.1029/2008JD010257
Title: Error estimates for near-real-time satellite soil moisture as derived from the Land Parameter Retrieval Model

Publication Date: 2011-01-01

Author(s): Parinussa, R.M., A.G.C.A. Meesters, Y.Y. Liu, W. Dorigo, W. Wagner, and R.A.M. de Jeu

Series: IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volume: 8

Issue: 4

Pages: 779 - 783

DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2011.2114872
Title: A preliminary study toward consistent soil moisture from AMSR2

Publication Date: 2015-01-01

Author(s): Parinussa, R.M., T.R.H. Holmes, N. Wanders, W.A. Dorigo, and R.A.M. de Jeu

Series: Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volume: 16

Pages: 932-947

DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-13-0200.1

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Ancillary Keywords

Hydrology
AMSR2
Skin temperature
Surface soil moisture
Optical depth
Radio frequency interference (RFI)
Brightness temperature
Soil water content
Vegetation water content
Microwave
BEDI
Agriculture and Forestry
Climate
Disasters
Water Resources
Weather

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ENVIRONMENT

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Project Short Name	Campaigns	Project Dates
GCOM-W	No campaigns listed.	No dates provided.

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Location Keywords

- GEOGRAPHIC REGION
- GLOBAL LAND

NASA/GSFC/SED/ESD/GCDC/GESDISC
ARCHIVER

Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (formerly Goddard DAAC), Global Change Data Center, Earth Sciences Division, Science and Exploration Directorate, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA
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RICHARD DE JEU
Investigator

RICHARD DE JEU
- Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences
  Department of Hydrology and Geo-environmental Sciences
  Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
  1081 HV Amsterdam,
Email

+31-20-598-7287
WILLIAM TENG
Metadata Author

WILLIAM TENG
- Code 610.2
  Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center, Code 610.2, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
  Greenbelt, MD 20771
Email

301-614-5164
GES DISC HELP DESK SUPPORT GROUP
Data Center Contact

GES DISC HELP DESK SUPPORT GROUP
NASA/GSFC/SED/ESD/GCDC/GESDISC
- Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center, 610.2, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
  Greenbelt, MD 20771
Email

301-614-5224

Metadata Dates

Creation	2014-08-15T00:00:00.000Z
Last Revision	2018-07-30T00:00:00.000Z

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Format: netCDF

Format Type: Native

Media: Online Archive

Average File Size: 3 MB

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AMSR2/GCOM-W1 surface soil moisture (LPRM) L3 1 day 25 km x 25 km descending V001 (LPRM_AMSR2_D_SOILM3) at GES DISC

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NASA/GSFC/SED/ESD/GCDC/GESDISC

Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (formerly Goddard DAAC), Global Change Data Center, Earth Sciences Division, Science and Exploration Directorate, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA

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RICHARD DE JEU

RICHARD DE JEU

WILLIAM TENG

WILLIAM TENG

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