Title: U.S. Navy Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center (FNMOC)'s Ocean QC SSM/I DMSP sea ice concentration retrievals
Description:
Abstract:
Sea ice concentration observational data from the FNMOC Ocean QC (Quality
Control) process are posted in near real-time to the USGODAE server. These
files contain all of the unclassified in-situ data used to initialize the US
Navy NOGAPS model, and all of the climate and background (forecast) values used
in the QC process.
The sea-ice concentration retrievals were obtained by the Special Sensor
Microwave/Imager (SSM/I), which is an instrument carried by the Defense
Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) series of satellites. The SSM/I is a
seven-channel, four-frequency, linearly polarised, passive microwave
radiometer. The fundamental quantity measured is the total power received by
the radiometer, which can be converted to the antenna temperatures and
brightness temperatures. The sea-ice concentration is calculated from the
brightness temperatures.
This data set is part of the Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment data
sets. Under FNMOC SSMI data set, information can be found about data
preview options (HTTP generator and FTP Images of most current data) and
SSMI decoder.
GOSIC provides access to data and information, and overviews of the structure
and programs for the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS), the Global Ocean
Observing System (GOOS), and the Global Terrestrial Observing System (GTOS).
