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Description

This daily Level-2B swath data set includes Sea Surface Temperature (SST), Near-Surface Wind Speed, Columnar Water Vapor, and Cloud liquid Water data arrays, and was used as input to generate the following daily, weekly, and monthly Level-3 gridded ocean products; AE_DyOcn, AE_WkOcn, and AE_MoOcn.

Version Description

See https://nsidc.org/data/amsre/version-history

Product Summary

Platforms
Aqua
Instruments
AMSR-E
Spatial Extent

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

Location
GLOBAL OCEAN
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
ORBIT
Temporal Extent
2002-06-19 to 2011-10-03
Temporal Resolution
50 Minute
Concept ID
C3363039849-NSIDC_CPRD
Data State
COMPLETE
Number of Files/Granules
97603
Processing Level
2B
Published
Science Keywords
Cloud Liquid Water/Ice ,
Cloud Precipitable Water ,
Sea Surface Temperature ,
Surface Winds ,
Water Temperature ,
Water Vapor Indices

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.

Copy Citation

Wentz, F., & Meissner, T. (2004). AMSR-E/Aqua L2B Global Swath Ocean Products derived from Wentz Algorithm, Version 2 [Dataset]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/AMSR-E/AE_OCEAN.002 Date Accessed: 2026-10-04

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Assessment of Aerosol Optical Depth, Cloud Fraction, and Liquid Water
  • Liang, Jiakun, Griswold, Jennifer D. Small
SSS estimates from AMSR-E radiometer in the Bay of Bengal: algorithm principles and limits
  • Montero, Marie, Reul, Nicolas, de Boyer Montegut, Clement, Vialard, Jerome, Brachet, Sidonie, Guimbard, Sebastien, Vandemark, Doug, Tournadre, Jean
Stability-dependent increases in liquid water with droplet number in the Arctic
  • Murray-Watson, Rebecca J., Gryspeerdt, Edward
Wind, Rain, and the Closed to Open Cell Transition in Subtropical Marine Stratocumulus
  • Eastman, Ryan, McCoy, Isabel L., Wood, Robert
Joint Inversion Algorithm of Sea Surface Temperature From Microwave and Infrared Brightness Temperature
  • Chen, Zhiwei, Jin, Rong, Li, Qingxia, Zhao, Guanghui, Xiao, Chengwang, Lei, Zhenyu, Huang, Yuhang
A total precipitable water product and its trend analysis in recent years based on passive microwave radiometers
  • Ji, Dabin, Shi, Jiancheng, Letu, Husi, Li, Wei, Zhang, Hongxing, Shang, Huazhe
Wavelet Analysis of Properties of Marine Boundary Layer Mesoscale Cells Observed From AMSRE
  • Zhou, Xiaoli, Bretherton, Christopher S., Eastman, Ryan, McCoy, Isabel L., Wood, Robert
Evaluating the Lagrangian Evolution of Subtropical Low Clouds in GCMs Using Observations: Mean Evolution, Time Scales, and Responses to Predictors
  • Eastman, Ryan, Terai, Christopher R., Grosvenor, Daniel P., Wood, Robert
On the Importance of Sea Surface Temperature for Aerosol-Induced
  • Zhou, Xiaoli, Zhang, Jianhao, Feingold, Graham
Improving middle and high latitude cloud liquid water path measurements
  • Khanal, Sujan, Wang, Zhien, French, Jeffrey R.
Warm Rain Rates from AMSR-E 89-GHz Brightness Temperatures Trained Using CloudSat Rain-Rate Observations
  • Eastman, Ryan, Lebsock, Matthew, Wood, Robert
Constraining the aerosol influence on cloud liquid water path
  • Gryspeerdt, Edward, Goren, Tom, Sourdeval, Odran, Quaas, Johannes, Mulmenstadt, Johannes, Dipu, Sudhakar, Unglaub, Claudia, Gettelman, Andrew, Christensen, Matthew
Representing Cloud Water Content of Extensive Cloud Systems Over Land
  • Seto, R., Koike, T., Kanae, S.
Subpixel variability and quality assessment of satellite sea surface
  • Castro, Sandra L., Monzon, Lucas A., Wick, Gary A., Lewis, Ryan D., Beylkin, Greg
Uncertainties in MODIS-Based Cloud Liquid Water Path Retrievals at High
  • Khanal, Sujan, Wang, Zhien
The Competing Effects of Stability and Humidity on Subtropical
  • Eastman, Ryan, Wood, Robert
Estimating precipitation susceptibility in warm marine clouds using multi-sensor aerosol and cloud products from A-Train satellites
  • Bai, Heming, Gong, Cheng, Wang, Minghuai, Zhang, Zhibo, L'Ecuyer, Tristan
The subtropical stratocumulus-topped planetary boundary layer: A climatology and the Lagrangian evolution
  • Eastman, Ryan, Wood, Robert, Ting O, Kuan
Community review of Southern Ocean satellite data needs
  • Pope, A., Wagner, P., Johnson, R., Shutler, J.D., Baeseman, J., Newman, L.
Instantaneous linkages between clouds and large-scale meteorology over the Southern Ocean in observations and a climate model
  • Wall, Casey J., Hartmann, Dennis L., Ma, Po-Lun
Time scales of clouds and cloud-controlling variables in subtropical stratocumulus from a Lagrangian perspective
  • Eastman, Ryan, Wood, Robert, Bretherton, Christopher S.
The Relationship between Boundary Layer Stability and Cloud Cover in the
  • Naud, Catherine M., Booth, James F., Del Genio, Anthony D.
Factors Controlling Low-Cloud Evolution over the Eastern Subtropical
  • Eastman, Ryan, Wood, Robert
Air-deployed microbuoy measurement of temperatures in the marginal ice zone upper ocean during the mizopex campaign
  • Bradley, Alice C., Palo, Scott, LoDolce, Gabriel, Weibel, Doug, Lawrence, Dale
The Clouds Climate Change Initiative: Assessment of state-of-the-art
  • Stengel, M., Mieruch, S., Jerg, M., Karlsson, K.-G., Scheirer, R., Maddux, B., Meirink, J.F., Poulsen, C., Siddans, R., Walther, A., Hollmann, R.
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