Co-Registered AMSR-E, QuikSCAT, and WMO Data, Version 1

Notice to Data Users:
The documentation for this data set was provided solely by the Principal Investigator(s) and was not further developed, thoroughly reviewed, or edited by NSIDC. Thus, support for this data set may be limited.

This data set contains the following spatially and temporally co-registered data: Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer - Earth Observing System (AMSR-E) brightness temperatures for all channels; Quick Scatterometer (QuikSCAT) backscattering coefficients; and World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ground observations acquired from more than two thousand stations. There is a large, increasing interest in the potential arising from the combination of active and passive microwave data for the extraction of geophysical parameters from spaceborne platforms. Often, one of the major obstacles is the generation of spatially and temporally co-registered data sets for testing hypotheses, validating models, and developing retrieval approaches. The temporal coverage of this data set spans from 01 January 2002 through 19 March 2009 with AMSR-E data included for the 19 June 2002 through 19 March 2009 time period. The volume of the data set is approximately two gigabytes. Data are provided in tab-delimited ASCII text files and are available via FTP.

数据用户通知：
本数据集的文档仅由主要研究者提供，并未经过国家雪冰数据中心（NSIDC）的进一步开发、全面审查或编辑。因此，对本数据集的支持可能受限。
本数据集包含以下空间和时间上协调一致的数据：地球观测系统（EOS）高级微波扫描辐射计（AMSR-E）所有通道的亮度温度；快速散射计（QuikSCAT）的后向散射系数；以及来自两千多个站点的世界气象组织（WMO）地面观测数据。对主动和被动微波数据结合使用以从空间平台提取地球物理参数的潜在应用产生了极大的兴趣。通常，其中一个主要障碍是生成空间和时间上协调一致的数据集以测试假设、验证模型和开发检索方法。本数据集的时间跨度为2002年1月1日至2009年3月19日，其中包含AMSR-E数据的时间段为2002年6月19日至2009年3月19日。数据集的体积大约为两吉字节。数据以制表符分隔的ASCII文本文件提供，并通过FTP提供。