AMSR-E/Aqua Monthly L3 5x5 deg Rainfall Accumulations

Data Contributors

WILHEIT, JR., THOMAS
KUMMEROW, CHRISTIAN
FERRARO, RALPH
ADLER, ROBERT

Parameters

PRECIPITATION AMOUNT
RAIN

Instruments

AMSR-E : ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER-EOS

The Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer - Earth Observing System (AMSR-E) instrument on the NASA EOS Aqua satellite provides global passive microwave measurements of terrestrial, oceanic, and atmospheric variables for the investigation of water and energy cycles.

This Level-3 rainfall accumulation product (AE_RnGd) consists of two grids of 28 rows by 72 columns of monthly averaged rainfall accumulation over ocean and land. Both grids are 5 degree by 5 degree resolution. Monthly ocean rainfall accumulation (mm) is derived from the Wilheit, Kummerow, and Ferraro (1991) algorithm, using Level-2A brightness temperatures as input. Monthly land rainfall accumulation (mm) is derived from the McCollum and Ferraro (2003) algorithm, using Level-2B rainfall data as input. Data are stored in HDF-EOS format, and are available from 19 June 2002 to the present via FTP, CD-ROM, DVD, or DLT.

Data Citation

The following example shows how to cite the use of these data sets in a publication. List the principal investigators, year of data set release, data set title and version number, dates of the data you used (for example, March to June 2004), publisher: NSIDC, and digital media.

Adler, Robert, Thomas Wilheit Jr., Christian Kummerow, and Ralph Ferraro. 2004, updated monthly. AMSR-E/Aqua Monthly L3 5x5 deg Rainfall Accumulations V002, [list the dates of the data used]. Boulder, Colorado USA: National Snow and Ice Data Center. Digital media.