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    TROPICS05 L1B Orbital Geolocated Native-Resolution Brightness Temperatures V0.2

    Metadata Updated: February 21, 2025

    The "Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats" (TROPICS) mission has a goal of providing nearly all-weather observations of three-dimensional temperature and humidity, as well as cloud ice and precipitation horizontal structure, at high temporal resolution to conduct high-value science investigations of tropical cyclones. The mission comprises a constellation of five identical Space Vehicles (SVs) conforming to the 3U form factor and hosting a passive microwave spectrometer payload.

    Each SV hosts an identical high-performance spectrometer named the TROPICS Millimeter-wave Sounder (TMS) that will provide temperature profiles using seven channels near the 118.75-GHz oxygen absorption line, water vapor profiles using three channels near the 183-GHz water vapor absorption line, imagery in a single channel near 90 GHz for precipitation measurements (when combined with higher resolution water vapor channels), and a single channel near 205 GHz that is more sensitive to cloud-sized ice particles.

    Each TROPICS netCDF file contains a granule of data with 81 spots and approximately 2880 scans, where a granule is defined as an orbit's worth of data.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: No license information was provided.

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    https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.3290

    Dates

    Metadata Created Date February 21, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date February 21, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from nasa test json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date February 21, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date February 21, 2025
    Publisher NASA/GSFC/SED/ESD/GCDC/GESDISC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C2985145021-GES_DISC
    Data First Published 2024-05-08
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2025-02-19
    Category TROPICS (EVI-3), geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
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    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.5067/DK01TW3NB06J
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -180.0 -90.0 180.0 90.0
    Program Code 026:001
    Related Documents https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.3290
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    Source Hash b159b70cd6b39bafe13fd179f0abc047c6514fd5ff613c023387faf934f5315d
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 2021-07-19T00:00:00Z/2024-08-12T00:00:00Z

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