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 |
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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
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 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
Project Short Name | Campaigns | Project Dates |
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NRL Coriolis | No campaigns listed. | No dates provided. |
Coverage Type | Zone Identifier | Geometry | Granule Representation |
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HORIZONTAL | CARTESIAN | CARTESIAN |
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Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences
Department of Hydrology and Geo-environmental Sciences
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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+31-20-598-7287
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
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301-614-5164
Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center, Code 610.2, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt,
MD
20771
301-614-5224
Format: netCDF
Format Type: Native
Media: Online Archive
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