AMSR monthly data

AMSR monthly SST, wind speed, vapor, cloud water and rain data

The Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer is flown on Aqua polar orbiter providing full global coverage over the oceans. As a microwave instrument it, can "see" though clouds the only obstacle is heavy precipitation. Derived measurables are SST, surface wind speed, vertical column vapor and cloud water, and rain rate.

The data were acquired from the www.ssmi.com site. If you will use these data in publication please acknowledge their source (for details see the link to the originator).

Variables
SST (°C), Surface wind speed (m/s), atomspheric water vapor (mm), cloud liquid water (mm), rain rate (mm/hr)
ZonalGlobal by 0.25 deg
MeridionalGlobal by 0.25 deg
VerticalVertical surface, or column integrated
TemporalJun 2002 to Mar 2008 by 1 month(s)
Static?no
Volume 
ServerDODS & LAS; public
Sourcehttp://www.ssmi.com/amsr/amsr_data_description.html
Acquiredupdated April 2008
APDRC contactJan Hafner
SupplementsN/A