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Description

The AMSR-E Level-2A product (AE_L2A) contains daily 50 minute half-orbit swath brightness temperatures for six channels ranging from 6.9 GHz through 89 GHz. Data are resampled to spatial resolutions ranging from 5.4 km to 56 km. Each file is packaged with geolocation and quality information as well as ancillary data.

Product Summary

Platforms
Aqua
Instruments
AMSR-E
Spatial Extent

N: 89.24 S: -89.24 E: 180 W: -180

Geographic Region
GLOBAL
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
ORBIT
Temporal Extent
2002-06-01 to 2011-10-04
Concept ID
C3235718266-NSIDC_CPRD
Data State
COMPLETE
Number of Files/Granules
98162
Processing Level
2A
Science Keywords
Brightness Temperature ,
Microwave Imagery

Citation

Citation is critically important for dataset documentation and discovery. This dataset is openly shared, without restriction, in accordance with the EOSDIS Data Use and Citation Guidance.

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Ashcroft, P., & Wentz, F. (2019). AMSR-E/Aqua L2A Global Swath Spatially-Resampled Brightness Temperatures, Version 4 [Data set]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/YL62FUZLAJUT Date Accessed: 2025-12-05

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