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OAS accession Detail for 0113259
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| Title: | Sea Surface Temperature (SST-sub-skin) L2P Sea Surface Temperature (SST-sub-skin) from 25km global gridded TRMM-TMI Remote Sensing Systems BMAPS NRT products for 2004-12-30 (NODC Accession 0113259) |
| Abstract: | The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Microwave Imager (TMI) is a well calibrated passive microwave radiometer, similar to SSM/I, that contains lower frequency channels required for sea surface temperature (SST) retrievals. The TRMM is a joint venture between NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to measure precipitation, water vapor, SST and wind in the global tropical regions and was launched in November 1997. The TRMM satellite travels west to east in a 402 km altitude semi-equatorial precessing orbit that results in day-to-day changes in the observation time of any given earth location between 38S and 38N. This Group for High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature (GHRSST) dataset is derived from Remote Sensing Systems BMAPS (binary) format TMI SST subskin data. Data were downloaded for the North Atlantic region from Remote Sensing Systems every hour to capture the latest TMI observations. L2P data products were then produced to the GHRSST Data Processing Specification (GDS) version 1.5. Ascending (daytime) and descending (nighttime) orbits are packaged into separate netCDF files. Although the dataset designation is "L2P" it is actually a "L3C" dataset (gridded Level 3 collated) as defined by the GHRSST Data Processing Specification version 2.0. This dataset was originally produced for the GHRSST Pilot Project, the precursor to GHRSST, by the Medspiration Regional Data Assembly Center (RDAC) in Europe. As one of the first datasets produced as a prototype for GHRSST-PP it assumed an incorrect designation of "L2P". |
| Date received: | 20130926 |
| Start date: | 20041230 |
| End date: | 20041230 |
| Seanames: | Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Guinea, Gulf of Mexico, Indian Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, Mozambique Channel, North Atlantic Ocean, North Pacific Ocean, Red Sea, South Atlantic Ocean, South Pacific Ocean |
| West boundary: | -99.875 |
| East boundary: | 44.875 |
| North boundary: | 39.875 |
| South boundary: | -39.875 |
| Observation types: | satellite data |
| Instrument types: | TMI |
| Datatypes: | SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE |
| Submitter: | Armstrong, Edward M. |
| Submitting institution: | US NASA; Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center |
| Collecting institutions: | Medspiration |
| Contributing projects: | GHRSST |
| Platforms: | TRMM (33LY) |
| Number of observations: | |
| Supplementary information: | Entry ID: EUR-L2P-TMI Projection_Information: Projection Type: Gridded Ellipsoid_Type: WGS 84 Other Projection Details: Equal-angle Data Resolution: Latitude resolution: 0.25 Longitude resolution: 0.25 The temporal resolution: Revisit ~twice each day This metadata record was generated from an original data set description (DSD) record in DIF format: http://www.ghrsst.org Reference: Medspiration products user manual, Robinson I., Leborgne P., Piolle J.F., Larnicol G., v1.02, September 2004 Sources: TRMM Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission Sensors: TMI TRMM Microwave Imager |
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| Metadata version: | 2 |
| Keydate: | 2013-09-26 01:26:50+00 |
| Editdate: | 2015-01-11 15:20:18+00 |