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Summary
ABSTRACT: Microwave Surface and Precipitation Products System (MSPPS) produces near real-time operational surface and precipitation products from the AMSU-A, AMSU-B and MHS instruments aboard NOAA and METOP satellites. The operational products include Antenna Temperatures, Total Precipitable Water, Cloud Liquid Water, Sea Ice Concentration, Land Surface Temperature, Land Surface ... Emissivity at 23.8, 31.4 and 50.3 GHz, Snow Cover, Rain Rate, Snow Water Equivalent and Ice-Water Path. Both Level-II (orbital) and Level-III (grid) products are available. The MSPPS grid products include Snow Cover, Rain Rate and Snow-Water Equivalent from AMSU-B/MHS and Sea Ice Concentration from AMSU-A. These level 3 geophysical products are mapped with the 1/16th-mesh Polar Stereographic projection and updated daily. They are available in HDF-EOS format.

PURPOSE: The purpose of MSPPS is to produce near-real-time operational surface and precipitation products from the AMSU-A and AMSU-B instruments.

CURRENTNESS REFERENCE: upon processing

SPATIAL DATA ORGANIZATION INFORMATION
Direct Spatial Reference: Raster
Raster Object Type: Grid Cell
Row Count: 1024
Column Count: 1024

Electronic download (FTP) of the data is free. There is a fee for copies of data on physical media. Optical disks are $25.00 per unit and magnetic tape is $100 per unit. Price does not include additional service and handling costs.

Geographic Coverage Spatial coordinates   

N: 90.0

S: -90.0

E: 180.0

W: -180.0

Related URL

Link: GET DATA Description: Download options for MSPSS Mapped Data. Link: VIEW EXTENDED METADATA Description: View Source Metadata document from the Metadata Manager and Repository (NMMR). Link: VIEW RELATED INFORMATION Description: This document is a Users' Manual of the Microwave Surface and Precipitation Products (MSPPS) system. This manual will describe the "Day-2" system. Link: VIEW RELATED INFORMATION Description: Information about MSPSS datasets. Link: VIEW RELATED INFORMATION Description: This document presents a system description of the Microwave Surface and Precipitation Products (MSPPS) system. Link: VIEW RELATED INFORMATION Description: This document presents the Interface Control Document (ICD) of the Microwave Surface and Precipitation Products (MSPPS) system. Link: VIEW RELATED INFORMATION Description: The purpose of this standard is to provide extensions to the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata for describing geospatial data obtained from remote sensing. Link: VIEW RELATED INFORMATION Description: Information about MSPPS Mapped Data. Link: VIEW RELATED INFORMATION Description: Search MSPPS Mapped Datasets. Link: VIEW RELATED INFORMATION Description: Descriptions of the MSPPS Day-2 science algorithms. They are provided by the algorithm developers and are updated as needed. Link: VIEW RELATED INFORMATION Description: White paper about an algorithm developed to derive cloud ice water path (IWP) and ice particle effective diameters from the advanced microwave sounding unit (AMSU) measurements. Link: VIEW RELATED INFORMATION Description: About algorithms are provided for retrieving the total precipitable water (TPW) and cloud liquid water (CLW) over oceans using the AMSU measurements at 23.8 and 31.4 GHz and extensive comparisons. Link: VIEW RELATED INFORMATION Description: This section of the KLM guide describes the AMSU-B sensor. Link: VIEW RELATED INFORMATION Description: Describes calibration methods for MHS aboard NOAA KLM satellites. Link: VIEW RELATED INFORMATION Description: Description of MHS sensor aboard NOAA KLM satellites. Link: VIEW RELATED INFORMATION Description: Technical description, spectral characteristics, scanning geometry and instrument calibration of MHS instrument aboard METOP-A.

Data Set Citation

Dataset Creator: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/OSDPD > Office of Satellite Data Processing and Distribution, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Dataset Title: MSPPS Mapped Data Dataset Release Date: 2003-07-12 Data Presentation Form: raster digital data Online Resource: http://www.class.noaa.gov/nsaa/products/search?sub_id=0&datatype_fa...

Data Center

Comprehensive Large Array-data Stewardship System, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Data Center URL: http://www.class.noaa.gov/ Dataset ID: ______MSPPS_FXAR ____ Data Center Personnel Name: NOAA'S CLASS HELP DESK Phone: (828) 271-4850 x3183 Fax: (828) 271-4328 Email: info at class.noaa.gov Contact Address: 151 Patton Avenue City: Asheville Province or State: NC Postal Code: 28801-5001 Country: USA

Distribution

Distribution Format: HDF-EOS Grid HDF4.1r5 and HDF-EOS2.9v1.00 Fees: Please See Summary

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