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Advanced Microwave Precipitation Radiometer (AMPR) WHyMSIE

Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR and NASA Data Portal — shown once because both records carry DOI 10.5067/whymsie/ampr/data101

The Advanced Microwave Precipitation Radiometer (AMPR) IMPACTS dataset consists of brightness temperature measurements collected by the Advanced Microwave Precipitation Radiometer (AMPR) onboard the NASA ER-2 high-altitude research aircraft.

Description

AMPR provides multi-frequency microwave imagery, with high spatial and temporal resolution for deriving cloud, precipitation, water vapor, and surface properties. These data were collected during the Westcoast and Heartland Hyperspectral Microwave Sensor Intensive Experiment (WHyMSIE) field campaign.

WHyMSIE aimed to capture a wide variety of thermodynamic, moisture, and planetary boundary layer regimes across a variety of surface types. Comparing observations from AMPR, other instruments, and with in situ observations of temperature and humidity will allow for scientific advancement of remote-sensing techniques into the hyperspectral microwave era and improved understanding of the planetary boundary layer at different measurement scales.

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These data are available in netCDF-4 format from October 18, 2024 through November 13, 2024.

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Provenance · 2 source records, 18 field assertions
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NASA Earthdata CMRC4100801820-GHRC_DAAC8 d agoJSON v1
NASA Data Portal39c5a6c0-b739-42fc-a646-23605f623fd05 d agoJSON v1
FieldAssertionExtractorEvidence
access_levelsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[field].local:field:astronomymapping · data nasa govconnector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0
concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmentalmapping · data nasa govconnector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0
concepts[field].local:field:engineeringmapping · data nasa govconnector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0
concepts[field].local:field:ocean-atmosphericmapping · data nasa govconnector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0
concepts[field].local:field:physicsmapping · data nasa govconnector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0
concepts[instrument].gcmd_instrument:amprsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/spectral-engineering/microwave/brightness-temperaturesource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:nasa-er-2source · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
created_datesource · data nasa govconnector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0
descriptionsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0/umm/Abstract
license_textsource · data nasa govconnector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0
publication_datesource · data nasa govconnector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0
spatialsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0/umm/SpatialExtent
temporalsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0/umm/TemporalExtents
titlesource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0/umm/EntryTitle
updated_datesource · data nasa govconnector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0
version_labelsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0