WindSat/Coriolis surface soil moisture (LPRM) L3 1 day 25 km x 25 km nighttime V001 (LPRM_WINDSAT_NT_SOILM3) at GES DISC
WindSat/Coriolis surface soil moisture (LPRM) L3 1 day 25 km x 25 km nighttime 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 polarimetric microwave radiometer data from WindSat, onboard the Naval Research Laboratory's Coriolis satellite, 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 February 2003 to July 2012. 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 WindSat's Ka-band (37.0 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 WindSat brightness temperatures (sdrLowRes) product, nighttime passes, as processed using LPRM (i.e., LPRM/WindSat/Coriolis L2 product, LPRM_WINDSAT_SOILM2_V001).
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| Spatial Extent: | Bounding Rectangle: N: 83 S: -64 E: 180 W: -180 |
Data Format(s): | Distribution: netCDF |
| Temporal Extent: | Platform(s): | CORIOLIS | |
| Data Center(s): | NASA/GSFC/SED/ESD/GCDC/GESDISC | Instrument(s): | WINDSAT |
| Version: | 001 | ||
- Title: WindSat/Coriolis surface soil moisture (LPRM) L3 1 day 25 km x 25 km nighttime 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_WINDSAT_NT_SOILM3_001.html
- GENERAL DOCUMENTATION: https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/information/documents?title=Hydrology%20Documentation, GES DISC Hydrology Documentation
Collection Information
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DOI
doi:10.5067/QSIHQIMUIM3G
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Data Identification
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Processing Level
3
- Quality The LPRM/WindSat 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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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
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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
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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
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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
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Title: A preliminary study towards 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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Other Descriptive Keywords
Ancillary Keywords
- Hydrology
- WindSat
- 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
ISO Topic Categories
- ENVIRONMENT
Acquisition Information
Projects
| Project Short Name | Campaigns | Project Dates |
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| NRL Coriolis | No campaigns listed. | No dates provided. |
Temporal Information
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Location Keywords
- GEOGRAPHIC REGION
- GLOBAL LAND
Data Centers
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NASA/GSFC/SED/ESD/GCDC/GESDISC
ARCHIVERGoddard 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
This data center does not have any addresses listed.
This data center does not have any contact mechanisms listed.
Data Contacts
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RICHARD DE JEU
InvestigatorRICHARD DE JEU
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Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences
Department of Hydrology and Geo-environmental Sciences
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
1081 HV Amsterdam,
+31-20-598-7287
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WILLIAM TENG
Metadata AuthorWILLIAM TENG
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Code 610.2
Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center, Code 610.2, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, MD 20771
301-614-5164
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GES DISC HELP DESK SUPPORT GROUP
Data Center ContactGES DISC HELP DESK SUPPORT GROUP
NASA/GSFC/SED/ESD/GCDC/GESDISC-
Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center, Code 610.2, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, MD 20771
301-614-5224
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Archive And Distribution Information
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Format: netCDF
Format Type: Native
Media: Online Archive
Fees: None