gov.noaa.class:EDRMAPNH15 DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/OSDPD > Office of Satellite Data Processing and Distribution, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce 20000124 http://www.class.noaa.gov/nsaa/products/search?sub_id=0&datatype_family=EDRMAPNH15 http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/dmsp/index.html http://www.class.noaa.gov/nsaa/products/search?sub_id=0&datatype_family=EDRMAPNH15 http web browser CLASS: Environmental Data Record Map NH DMSP-15 Information about Environmental Data Record Map NH DMSP-15. information http://www.class.noaa.gov/nsaa/products/search?sub_id=0&datatype_family=EDRMAPNH15 http web browser CLASS: Environmental Data Record Map NH DMSP-15 Search Environmental Data Record Map NH DMSP-15. search http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/dmsp/ http web browser Defense Meteorological Satellite Program Home page for DMSP archive, research and products at NGDC information gov.noaa.class:EDRMAPNH15 Microwave surface and precipitation products (EDRs) are produced by Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center (FNMOC) from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program's (DMSP) Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I) instrument aboard DMSP-15 satellite. Product contains maps for the northern hemisphere that conform to a polar stereographic projection true at 60 degrees latitude. To supplement infrared and visible satellite measurements with microwave measurements. 20000124 Present ground condition In work every six hours -180 180 90 0 Level 3 Standards Working Group, Federal Geographic Data Committee 20021009 FGDC-STD-012-2002 590 National Center Reston, VA 20192 Federal Geographic Data Committee Secretariat c/o U.S. Geological Survey http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/FGDC-standards-projects/csdgm_rs_ex/MetadataRemoteSensingExtens.pdf http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/FGDC-standards-projects/csdgm_rs_ex/MetadataRemoteSensingExtens.pdf http PDF Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata: Extensions for Remote Sensing Metadata, FGDC-STD-012-2002 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. information ISO 19115 Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords EARTH SCIENCE > Land Surface > Soils > Soil Moisture/Water Content EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Water Vapor > Water Vapor EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Winds > Surface Winds EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Clouds > Cloud Liquid Water/Ice EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Precipitation > Rain EARTH SCIENCE > Climate Indicators > Drought/Precipitation Indices > Satellite Soil Moisture Index EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Sea Ice > Sea Ice Concentration EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Sea Ice > Snow Depth EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Snow/Ice > Snow Depth EARTH SCIENCE > Terrestrial Hydrosphere > Snow/Ice > Snow Depth EARTH SCIENCE > Land Surface > Land Temperature > Land Surface Temperature EARTH SCIENCE > Land Surface > Soils > Soil Moisture/Water Content EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Ocean Temperature > Sea Surface Temperature EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Ocean Winds > Surface Winds EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Sea Ice > Sea Ice Concentration EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Sea Ice > Snow Depth NetCDF Climate and Forecast (CF) Standard Name Table soil_moisture_content sea_surface_temperature surface_temperature_where_land atmosphere_cloud_ice_content sea_ice_area_fraction thickness_of_snowfall_amount atmosphere_water_vapor_content NASA/GCMD Location Keywords Geographic Region > Northern Hemisphere DMSP > Defense Meteorological Satellite Program Defense Meteorological Satellite Program-F15 DMSP 5D-2/F15 Special Sensor Microwave/Imager SSM/I DMSP > Defense Meteorological Satellite Program Defense Meteorological Satellite Program-F15 DMSP 5D-2/F15 Special Sensor Microwave/Temperature SSM/T DMSP > Defense Meteorological Satellite Program Defense Meteorological Satellite Program-F15 DMSP 5D-2/F15 Special Sensor Microwave/Temperature Profiler SSM/T-2 None None DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/OSDPD/SSD/PIB > Product Implementation Branch, Office of Satellite Data Processing and Distribution, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Hanjun Ding Product Area Lead Mailing and Physical Address

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Camp Springs MD 20746 - 4304 USA (301) 763-8142 ext 124 (301) 899-9196 Hanjun.Ding@noaa.gov 8:00 am - 4:30 pm Eastern The information above only valid through late 2008, when the World Weather Building will be relocated. TBD DMSP Data Availability at http://dmsp.ngdc.noaa.gov/html/availability.html Data is derived from SSM/I instrument aboard DMSP F-15 satellites and mapped. Not complete Raster Unsigned 2 byte integer Grid Cell 512 512 Grid Cell The smallest unit of information in an image, raster, or grid. In a map, each cell represents a portion of the earth, such as a square meter or square mile, and usually has an attribute value associated with it, such as soil type or vegetation class. Cells are usually square or rectangular in shape, although hexagonal and circular areas have also been used. Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) - http://support.esri.com/index.cfm?fa=knowledgebase.gisDictionary.search&search=true&searchTerm=cell Surface Wind Over Ocean The surface wind in m/sec. http://www.class.noaa.gov 0 40 m/s Ice Concentration The percentage of ice over the oceans. http://www.class.noaa.gov 0 100 percent sea_ice_area_fraction "X_area_fraction" means the fraction of horizontal area occupied by X. Sea ice area fraction is area of the sea surface occupied by sea ice. It is also called "sea ice concentration". NetCDF Climate and Forecast (CF) Standard Name Table 0 100 percent Water Vapor A measurement of the water vapor concentration over the oceans. http://www.class.noaa.gov 0.0 80 kg/m**2 Rain Rate A measurement of the rainfall intensity over the Earth's surface. http://www.class.noaa.gov 0 40 mm/hr rainfall_rate n/a NetCDF Climate and Forecast (CF) Standard Name Table 0 40 mm/hr Snow Depth A measurement of the depth of recently accumulated dry snow. http://www.class.noaa.gov 0 50 cm thickness_of_snowfall_amount "Amount" means mass per unit area. The construction thickness_of_[X_]snowfall_amount means the accumulated "depth" of snow which fell i.e. the thickness of the layer of snow at its own density. NetCDF Climate and Forecast (CF) Standard Name Table 0 50 cm Surface Temperature A measurement of the temperature at the surface in land regions. http://www.class.noaa.gov 230 330 degrees Kelvin surface_temperature_where_land Unless indicated, a quantity is assumed to apply to the whole area of each horizontal grid box. The qualifier where_type specifies instead that the quantity applies only to the part of the grid box of the named type. The surface temperature is the (skin) temperature at the interface, not the bulk temperature of the medium above or below. NetCDF Climate and Forecast (CF) Standard Name Table 230 330 degrees Kelvin Soil Moisture The percentage of moisture for the land regions. http://www.class.noaa.gov 0 70 percent soil_moisture_content "moisture" means water in all phases contained in soil. "Content" indicates a quantity per unit area. The "soil content" of a quantity refers to the vertical integral from the surface down to the bottom of the soil model. NetCDF Climate and Forecast (CF) Standard Name Table 0 70 percent DOC/NOAA/CLASS > Comprehensive Large Array-data Stewardship System, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce mailing and physical

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Boulder CO 80305-3328 USA (303) 497-5099 (303) 497-6513 Anna.Milan@noaa.gov 9:00 - 5:00 Mountain Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata: Extensions for Remote Sensing Metadata FGDC-STD-012-2002 http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/extensions/local_extensions.html NGDC Extensions to FGDC Metadata DMSP > Defense Meteorological Satellite Program The DMSP designs, builds, launches, and maintains satellites monitoring the meteorological, oceanographic, and solar-terrestrial physics environments. Equipped with a sophisticated sensor suite that can image visible and infrared cloud cover, the satellites collect specialized meteorological, oceanographic, and solar-geophysical information in all weather conditions. 1965 DMSP F-8 launched. 19870619 DMSP F-8 operational. 19870625 DMSP F-8 ended operation. 19940801 DMSP F-9 launched. 19880203 DMSP F-9 ended operation. 19920403 DMSP F-10 launched and operational. Instruments: OLS, SSM/I, SSM/T, SSJ/4 and SSIES. 19901201 DMSP F-10 ended operation. 19971114 DMSP F-11 launched. Instruments: OLS, SSM/I, SSM/T, SSM/T2, SSJ/4 and SSIES. 19911128 DMSP F-11 operational. 19911206 DMSP F-11 ended operation. 20000516 DMSP F-12 launched. Instruments: OLS, SSB/X-2, SSI/ES-2, SSJ/4, SSM, SSM/I, SSM/T and SSM/T2. 19940828 DMSP F-12 operational. 19940908 DMSP F-13 launched. Instruments: OLS, SSB/X, SSI/ES-2, SSJ/4, SSM, SSM/I, SSM/T and SSZ. 19950324 DMSP F-13 operational. 19950415 DMSP F-14 launched. Instruments: OLS, SSB/X-2, SSI/ES-2, SSJ/4, SSM, SSM/I, SSM/T and SSM/T2. 19970410 DMSP F-14 operational. 19970414 DMSP F-15 launched. Instruments: OLS, SSB/X-2, SSI/ES-2, SSJ/4, SSM, SSM/I, SSM/T and SSM/T2. 19991212 DMSP F-15 operational. 20000124 DMSP F-16 launched. Instruments: SSMIS. 20031018 DMSP F-16 operational. 20051104 DSMP F-17 launched. Instruments: SSMIS. 20061104 DSMP F-18 intended launch. Instruments: SSMIS. 20071001 DSMP F-19 intended launch. 20091001 DMSP 5D-2/F15 > Defense Meteorological Satellite Program-F15 20000124 DMSP > Defense Meteorological Satellite Program DMSP 5D-2/F15 - Launched on December 12, 1999. Instruments: OLS, SB/X-2, SSI/ES-2, SSJ/4, SSM, SSM/I, SSM/T and SSM/T2. Operational dates: January 24, 2000 - present. 20000201 032854 minutes 101.8 .0009889 degrees 98.8935 90.0263 179.9613 Unknown SSM/T > Special Sensor Microwave/Temperature sounder cross-track step and stare mode The SSM/T is a cross-track nadir scanning radiometer having a field of view (FOV) of 14.4 degrees. At the nominal 833 km altitude, the subtrack spatial resolution is an approximate circle of 174 km diameter at nadir. There are seven total cross-track scan positions separated by 12 degrees with a maximum cross-track scan angle of 36 degrees. At the far end of each scan, resolution degrades to an ellipse of 213 x 304 km size. The SSM/T data swath is about 1500 km; therefore, there is a data coverage gap between successive orbits over much of the earth. DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NGDC > National Geophysical Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Unknown http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/dmsp/sensors/ssmt.html http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/dmsp/sensors/ssmt.html http browser SSM/T- Atmospheric Temperature Profiler Short description of SSM/T sensor aboard DMSP satellites. information SSM/I > Special Sensor Microwave/Imager imager conical scan The instrument sweeps a 450 cone around the satellite velocity vector so that the Earth incidence angle is always 540. Data are recorded during the 102.40 of the cone when the antenna beam intercepts the Earth's surface. The channel footprint varies with channel energy, position in the scan, along scan or along track direction and altitude of the satellite. The 85 GHz footprint is the smallest with a 13 x 15 km and the 19 GHz footprint is the largest at 43 x 69 km. Because the 85 GHz footprint is so small, it is sampled twice as often, i.e., 128 times a scan. One data cycle consists of 4 85 GHz scans and 2 scans of the 19, 22 and 37 GHz channels. The complete cycle takes 28 seconds and it must be complete to process the data. DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NGDC > National Geophysical Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Unknown http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/dmsp/sensors/ssmi.html http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/dmsp/sensors/ssmi.html http browser SSM/I- Microwave Imager Short description of SSM/I sensor aboard DMSP satellites. information SSM/T-2 > Special Sensor Microwave/Temperature Profiler profiler cross-track step-scan The SSM/T-2 is a cross-track scanning, five channel, passive total power microwave radiometer system which consists of a single, self-contained module with a step-scan motion in the cross-track direction of +/- 40.5 degrees. DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NGDC > National Geophysical Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Unknown http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/dmsp/sensors/ssmt2.html http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/dmsp/sensors/ssmt2.html http browser SSMT/2 Atmospheric Water Vapor Profiler Short description of SSMT/2 sensor aboard the DMSP satellites. information