AMSR-E Air and Brightness Temperature Data from Wakasa Bay Campaign

NSIDCV0 provides the AMMR Air and Brightness Temperature Data, Wakasa Bay, Version 1 dataset. This data originates from a field campaign designed to validate rainfall algorithms for the AMSR-E satellite instrument. The dataset is available in multiple file formats, including BIN, ISO, and HTML.

Use Cases

• Validating AMSR-E rainfall algorithms using in-situ brightness temperature measurements.
• Comparing satellite-derived atmospheric data with field campaign observations from Wakasa Bay.
• Analyzing the relationship between air temperature and microwave brightness temperature for precipitation studies.

Strengths

• Dataset is associated with a specific, focused field campaign for satellite algorithm validation.
• Cross-platform presence on NASA Earthdata and Data.gov signals recognized importance and curation.
• Data is versioned (Version 1), indicating a managed release process.

Limitations

• Critical metadata conflicts exist: last updated date is reported as both 2003-02-03 and 2026-03-13.
• No column names, row counts, or dataset size information is available from any source.
• The specific license is unclear, only generically noted as 'other-license-specified'.

Provenance

Source

NSIDCV0

Collection Method

Field campaign data collection for satellite validation.

Freshness

2026-03-13 18:16:07.554217

Geography

Wakasa Bay