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

    Metadata Updated: December 7, 2023

    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 surface to ~45 km (3 millibars). All orbits beginning in the day (00:00:00 - 23:59:59 UTC) are stored in one daily HDF-EOS file. Each file contains 15 (channel) arrays, as well as corresponding latitude, longitude, and time. AMSU flies on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) polar orbiting spacecraft as part of the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS). The Third Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A was launched on NOAA-17 on 24 June 2002 from Vandenberg AFB, California on a Titan II booster.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Metadata Created Date December 1, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date December 7, 2023

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    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date December 1, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date December 7, 2023
    Publisher NASA/MSFC/GHRC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C1979975136-GHRC_DAAC
    Data First Published 2003-06-11
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2022-04-28
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    Public Access Level public
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    Citation Spencer, Roy W and William D Braswell.2003. ADVANCED MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNIT-A (AMSU-A) SWATH FROM NOAA-17 indicate subset used. Dataset available online from the NASA Global Hydrometeorology Resource Center DAAC, Huntsville, Alabama, U.S.A. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GHRC/AMSU-A/DATA203
    Graphic Preview Description N/A
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    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.5067/GHRC/AMSU-A/DATA203
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -180.0 -89.575 180.0 89.629
    Program Code 026:001
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash ff0ccea572ad8a90f6e0d1b8e5e909733aa7766c37ebdd5a7e7314f95e44ac5a
    Source Schema Version 1.1
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    Temporal 2002-07-21T00:53:50Z/2003-12-13T01:24:45Z

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