Datasets / ADVANCED MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNIT-A (AMSU-A) SWATH FROM NOAA-17 V1


ADVANCED MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNIT-A (AMSU-A) SWATH FROM NOAA-17 V1

Published By National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Issued about 9 years ago

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beta

Summary

Type of release
a one-off release of a single dataset

Data Licence
Not Applicable

Content Licence
Creative Commons CCZero

Verification
automatically awarded

Description

AMSU-A,the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit, is a 15-channel passive microwave radiometer used to profile atmospheric temperature and moisture from the earth's surfaceto ~45 km (3 millibars). There are 15 (channel) arrays, as well as corresponding Latitude, Longitude, and Time.