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    NRT AMSR2 Unified Global Swath Surface Precipitation GSFC Profiling Algorithm V2

    Metadata Updated: February 22, 2025

    The Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 (AMSR2) instrument on the Global Change Observation Mission - Water 1 (GCOM-W1) provides global passive microwave measurements of terrestrial, oceanic, and atmospheric parameters for the investigation of global water and energy cycles. Near real-time (NRT) products are generated within 3 hours of the last observations in the file, by the Land Atmosphere Near real-time Capability for EOS (LANCE) at the AMSR Science Investigator-led Processing System (AMSR SIPS), which is collocated with the Global Hydrology Resource Center (GHRC) DAAC. The GCOM-W1 NRT AMSR2 Unified Global Swath Surface Precipitation GSFC Profiling Algorithm is a swath product containing global rain rate and type, calculated by the GPROF 2017 V2R rainfall retrieval algorithm using resampled NRT Level-1R data provided by JAXA. This is the same algorithm that generates the corresponding standard science products in the AMSR SIPS. The NRT products are generated in HDF-EOS-5 augmented with netCDF-4/CF metadata and are available via HTTPS from the EOSDIS LANCE system at https://lance.nsstc.nasa.gov/amsr2-science/data/level2/rain/. If data latency is not a primary concern, please consider using science quality products. Science products are created using the best available ancillary, calibration and ephemeris information. Science quality products are an internally consistent, well-calibrated record of the Earth's geophysical properties to support science. The AMSR SIPS produces AMSR2 standard science quality data products, and they are available at the NSIDC DAAC.

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    Metadata Created Date February 22, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date February 22, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from nasa test json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date February 22, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date February 22, 2025
    Publisher Not provided
    Maintainer
    Identifier C2152626500-LANCEAMSR2
    Data First Published 2021-10-20
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2025-02-19
    Category LANCE, geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
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    Harvest Source Id a73e0c30-4684-40ef-908e-d22e9e9e5f86
    Harvest Source Title nasa test json
    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.5067/AMSRU/AU_RAIN_NRT_R02
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -180.0 -89.0 180.0 89.0
    Program Code 026:001
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 3d416c11570e59894e3b46cd0f89f9212a80d018dc0d03872b8e84a684279996
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 2021-10-01T00:00:00Z/2023-02-28T00:00:00Z

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