HR: 1330h
AN: H32B-0548    [PDF]
TI: Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer - Earth Observing System (AMSR-E) Validation Data Management at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC)
AU: * Marquis, M C
EM: marquism@nsidc.org
AF: National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center, CIRES, 449 UCB University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0449 United States
AU: Paserba, A M
EM: ampaserb@nsidc.org
AF: National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center, CIRES, 449 UCB University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0449 United States
AB: The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) is supporting the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer - Earth Observing System (AMSR-E) validation activity. NSIDC has designed and developed a web portal to data and information collected during NASA's AMSR-E Validation Program: (http://nsidc.org/data/amsr_validation/.) The AMSR-E validation experiments address three disciplines: soil moisture, rainfall and cryospheric validation campaigns. This poster describes all these experiments (past, present and future). NSIDC provides documentation, e.g., user guides, as well as metadata documents (DIFS) submitted to the Global Change Master Directory (GCMD), for all the AMSR-E validation experiments. NSIDC further supports the validation activities by collaborating with the AMSR-E Science Investigator-led Processing System (SIPS) to provide scientists in the field (e.g., Arctic and Antarctic ship and flight campaigns) with quick, easy access to AMSR-E data for their validation experiments. NSIDC provides subsets of reformatted data in a manner most convenient to the validation scientists while they conduct their experiments. The AMSR-E is a mission instrument launched aboard NASA's Aqua Satellite on 4 May 2002. The Aqua mission provides a multi-disciplinary study of the Earth's atmospheric, oceanic, cryospheric, and land processes and their relationship to global change. With six instruments aboard, the Aqua Satellite will travel in a polar, sun-synchronous orbit. NSIDC will archive and distribute all AMSR-E products, including Levels 1A, 2, and 3 data. Users can order Level-1A AMSR-E data beginning 19 June 2003 and Level-2A data beginning 01 September 2003. Other products will be available in March 2004.
UR: http://nsidc.org/data/amsr_validation/
DE: 1635 Oceans (4203)
DE: 1655 Water cycles (1836)
DE: 1854 Precipitation (3354)
DE: 1863 Snow and ice (1827)
DE: 1866 Soil moisture
SC: Hydrology [H]
MN: 2003 Fall Meeting