Data · collection
Microwave Integrated Retrieval System (MIRS) Level-2 Orbital Precipitation and Surface Products
Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR
The MIRS was developed with an end-to-end capability of calibrating and characterizing the radiances measured from satellite-based microwave instruments and retrieving the environmental data records with state of the art algorithm science.
Description
This system is an upgrade from the NESDIS operational Microwave Surface and Precipitation Products System (MSPPS) and is a one-stop resource for microwave-derived products from various polar-orbiting satellite instrument configurations.
The MIRS is capable of optimally retrieving atmospheric and surface state parameters and provides physical-based retrievals/products in a consistent fashion. It is also designed to be instrument/spectrum-independent, parameter-independent, and platform-independent. The MIRS produces advanced near-real-time operational surface and precipitation products in all-weather and over all-surface conditions using brightness temperatures from multiple microwave instruments.
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Current instruments are the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A (AMSU-A) and the Microwave Humidity Sounder (MHS) onboard NOAA-18 and MetOp-A satellites and the Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder (SSMIS) aboard the DMSP 5D-2/F16 satellite. Current operational Precipitation and Surface Products are total precipitable water over ocean and land, land surface temperature, land surface emissivity, cloud liquid water, sea ice concentration, snow water equivalent, snow cover, ice water path, rain water path, and rainfall rate available in the HDF-EOS and NetCDF image format.
Links
Get the data
- Project documentation star.nesdis.noaa.gov/mirs/documentation.php ↗
download · from NASA CMR
- data.nodc.noaa.gov /cgi-bin/iso?id=gov.noaa.ncdc%3AC01366 ↗
Dataset landing page with general information and access links for the dataset.
download · from NASA CMR
- Instructions on how to download and access MiRS star.nesdis.noaa.gov/mirs/download.php ↗
download · from NASA CMR
- avl.class.noaa.gov /saa/products/search?sub_id=0&datatype_family=MIRS_ORB&submit.x… ↗
Product data family search page. Search and submit an order for the dataset via a text-based interface.
download · from NASA CMR
- avl.class.noaa.gov /saa/products/search?sub_id=0&datatype_family=MIRS_ORB&submit.x… ↗
Product data family search page. Search and submit an order for the dataset via a text-based interface.
download · from NASA CMR
Documentation and papers
- doi.org /10.1109/tgrs.2011.2158438 ↗
S. Boukabara et al., "MiRS: An All-Weather 1DVAR Satellite Data Assimilation and Retrieval System," in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 49, no. 9, pp. 3249-3272, Sept. 2011
documentation · from NASA CMR
- www1.ncdc.noaa.gov /pub/data/metadata/images/NOAA-19.jpg ↗
Artistic rendition of NOAA-19 Prime Satellite. Credit: Lockheed Martin
preview image · from NASA CMR
Catalogue records · 2
- CMR record cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C2107093906-NOAA_NCEI.html ↗
catalogue entry · from NASA CMR
- CMR UMM-JSON cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C2107093906-NOAA_NCEI.umm_json ↗
metadata API · from NASA CMR
Topics
- Stated by source
- Cloud Liquid Water/Ice · Emissivity · Not provided · Not Provided · Precipitation Rate · Sea Ice Concentration · Snow · Snow Cover · Total Precipitable Water · Water Vapor Profiles
- Inferred from text
- Image 75%
Provenance · 1 source records, 17 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| NASA Earthdata CMR | C2107093906-NOAA_NCEI | 13 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| access_level | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/atmospheric-water-vapor/water-vapor-indicators/total-precipitable-water | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/atmospheric-water-vapor/water-vapor-profiles | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/clouds/cloud-microphysics/cloud-liquid-water-ice | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/not-provided | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/precipitation/precipitation-rate | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/precipitation/solid-precipitation/snow | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/cryosphere/snow-ice/snow-cover | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/land-surface/surface-radiative-properties/emissivity | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/oceans/sea-ice/sea-ice-concentration | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[modality].local:modality:image | enrichment · NASA CMR | keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0 | title+description (75%) |
| concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:not-provided | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/Abstract |
| spatial | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/SpatialExtent |
| temporal | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/TemporalExtents |
| title | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/EntryTitle |
| version_label | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 |