SSM/I Ocean Products


1. IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION

Name SSM/I Ocean Products
Edition Version-6
Abbreviation SSM/I
Metadata Identifier SSM_I20230727075527-en

2. CONTACT

2.1 CONTACT on DATASET

Name Hiromichi Igarashi
Organization DrC/JAMSTEC
Address 3173-25,Showa-machi,Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 236-0001, Japan
E-mail higarashi@jamstec.go.jp

2.2 CONTACT on PROJECT

3. DOCUMENT AUTHOR

Name Hiromichi Igarashi
Organization DrC/JAMSTEC
E-mail higarashi@jamstec.go.jp

4. DATASET CREATOR

Name Remote Sensing Systems

5. DATE OF THIS DOCUMENT

2023-07-27

6. DATE OF DATASET

  • revision : 2006-09-13

7. DATASET OVERVIEW

7.1 Abstract

These Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I) data products are produced as part of NASA's Pathfinder Program. Remote Sensing Systems generates SSM/I data products using a unified, physically based algorithm to simultaneously retrieve ocean wind speed (at 10 meters), water vapor, cloud water, and rain rate. This algorithm is a product of 15 years of refinements, improvements, and verifications.

7.2 Topic Category(ISO19139)

  • oceans

7.3 Temporal Extent

Begin Date 1987-07-09
End Date 2009-07-22
Temporal Characteristics daily,3-day,weekly,monthly

7.4 Geographic Bounding Box

North bound latitude 90
West bound longitude -180
Eastbound longitude 180
South bound latitude -90

7.5 Grid

Dimension Name Dimension Size (slice number of the dimension) Resolution Unit
row 1440 0.25 (deg)
column 720 0.25 (deg)

7.6 Geographic Description

global

7.7 Keywords

7.7.1 Keywords on Dataset

Keyword Type Keyword Keyword thesaurus Name
theme ocean, satellite

7.7.2 Keywords on Project

7.8 Online Resource

7.9 Data Environmental Information

7.10 Distribution Information

name version specification

8. DATA PROCESSING

8.1 Data Processing (1)

8.1.1 General Explanation of the data producer's knowledge about the lineage of a dataset

http://www.ssmi.com/papers/ssmi.pdf

http://www.ssmi.com/papers/rain.pdf

8.1.2 Data Source

Data Source Citation Name Description of derived parameters and processing techniques used

9. DATA REMARKS

10. DATA POLICY

10.1 Data Policy by the Data Provider

Permission is granted to use these data and images in research and publications when accompanied by the appropriate instrument or product specific statement.

SSM/I data are produced by Remote Sensing Systems and sponsored by the NASA Earth Science MEaSUREs DISCOVER Project. Data are available at www.remss.com.

10.2 Data Policy by the Project

11. LICENSE

12. DATA SOURCE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

12.1 Acknowledge the Data Provider

12.2 Acknowledge the Project

13. REFERENCES

Wentz F. J. 1997, "A well-calibrated ocean algorithm for SSM/I", J. Geophys. Res., Vol. 102, No. C4, pg. 8703-8718.

Wentz, Frank J. and Roy W. Spencer, May 1, 1998, "SSM/I Rain Retrievals within a Unified All-Weather Ocean Algorithm", Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, Vol. 55, pg. 1613-1627.