ADVANCED MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNIT-A (AMSU-A) SWATH FROM NOAA-17 V1
AMSU-A, the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit, is a 15-channel passive microwave radiometer used to profile atmospheric temperature and moisture from the earth's surface to ~45 km (3 millibars). All orbits beginning in the day (00:00:00 - 23:59:59 UTC) are stored in one daily HDF-EOS file. Each file contains 15 (channel) arrays, as well as corresponding latitude, longitude, and time. AMSU flies on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) polar orbiting spacecraft as part of the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS). The Third Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A was launched on NOAA-17 on 24 June 2002 from Vandenberg AFB, California on a Titan II booster.
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| Spatial Extent: | Bounding Rectangle: N: 89.629 S: -89.575 E: 180.0 W: -180.0 |
Data Format(s): | Distribution: netCDF-3 - HDF-EOS |
| Temporal Extent: | Platform(s): | NOAA-17 | |
| Data Center(s): | NASA/MSFC/GHRC, Global Hydrology Resource Center, Marshall Space Flight Center, NASA | Instrument(s): | AMSU-A |
| Version: | 1 | ||
- Other Citation Details: Spencer, Roy W and William D Braswell.2003. ADVANCED MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNIT-A (AMSU-A) SWATH FROM NOAA-17 [indicate subset used]. Dataset available online from the NASA Global Hydrology Resource Center DAAC, Huntsville, Alabama, U.S.A. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GHRC/AMSU-A/DATA203
10.5067/GHRC/AMSU-A/DATA203
- GENERAL DOCUMENTATION: http://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/uso/ds_docs/amsu_a/amsu-a_dataset.html, The guide document contains detailed information about the dataset
- GENERAL DOCUMENTATION: https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/about-ghrc/citing-ghrc-daac-data, Instructions for citing GHRC data
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| HORIZONTAL | CARTESIAN | CARTESIAN |
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NASA/MSFC/GHRC
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Global Hydrology Resource Center, Marshall Space Flight Center, NASA
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320 Sparkman Drive
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Format: netCDF-3 - HDF-EOS
Format Type: Native
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