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AMSU/MSU LowTropo Day/Month Temp Anomalies and Annual Cycle

Entry ID: msut2lt

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Summary

Abstract: Global lower tropospheric temperatures are derived from a series of microwave sounding instruments flown on a series of satellites. Daily Zonal and Monthly Temperature Anomalies for the lower troposphere on a global 2.5 degree grid are derived from both the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU) and from the Microwave Sounding Unit (MSU) using the Limb 90 correction. The data set begins Jan 1 1979 and is ongoing.

Geographic Coverage

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Spatial coordinates

N: 89.0

S: -89.0

E: 180.0

W: -180.0

Data Set Citation

Dataset Title: AMSU/MSU LowTropo Day/Month Temp Anomalies and Annual Cycle

Online Resource: http://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 1978-01-01

Science Keywords

SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING > MICROWAVE > BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE

ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES

ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > AIR TEMPERATURE

SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING > INFRARED WAVELENGTHS > BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE

ISO Topic Category

CLIMATOLOGY/METEOROLOGY/ATMOSPHERE

Platform

NOAA-10 > National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration-10

NOAA-16 > National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration-16

Instrument

AMSU-A > Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A

MSU > Microwave Sounding Unit

Project

EOSDIS > Earth Observing System Data Information System

ESIP > Earth Science Information Partners Program

DISCOVER > Distributed Info. Services for Climate/Ocean Prod./Visualizations for Earth Res.

CWIC > CEOS WGISS Integrated Catalog

Access Constraints none

Ancillary Keywords

EOSDIS

Data Set Progress

COMPLETE

Data Center

Global Hydrology Resource Center, Marshall Space Flight Center, NASA

Data Center URL: http://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/
Dataset ID: msut2lt

Data Center Personnel
Name: GHRC USER SERVICES OFFICE Phone: 256-961-7932 Fax: 256-961-7859 Email: ghrcdaac at itsc.uah.edu Contact Address: GHRC User Services Office Global Hydrology Resource Center (GHRC) 320 Sparkman Drive City: Huntsville Province or State: AL Postal Code: 35805 Country: USA