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FIDUCEO: Fundamental Climate Data Record of Microwave Brightness Temperatures with uncertainties, 1994 - 2017, v4.1
The FIDUCEO Microwave Fundamental Climate data record, v4.1, contains microwave brightness temperatures and uncertainties for series of satellite instruments (all mission years of SSMT2 on F11, F12, F14, F15; AMSU-B on NOAA15, NOAA16 and NOAA17; and MHS missions (NOAA18, NOAA19, MetopA,-B)). The presented FCDR is a long data record of increased consistency among the instruments compared to the operational data record and is a long enough data record to generate climate data records (CDRs) for climate research. The improvements are based on the strict application of the measurement equation as well as dedicated corrections and improvements within the calibration process. The data record contains quantified uncertainty components, respecting the correlation behaviour of underlying effects.
Full documentation including product user guide, tutorials, the scientific basis and relevant publications are available in the documentation
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- Date (Publication)
- 2019-09-12T15:34:53
- Date (Creation)
- 2019-09-12T15:34:53
- Identifier
- Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / a8e9f44965434f3b861eba77688701ef
- Identifier
- doi / 10.5285/a8e9f44965434f3b861eba77688701ef
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- notPlanned Not planned
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- dataset Dataset
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- FCDR
- Fundamental Climate Data Record
- Microwave
- SSMT-2
- AMSU-B
- MHS
- Uncertainty
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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- orthoimagery
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- Other constraints
- Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
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- grid Grid
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- EnglishEnglish
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- Imagery base maps earth cover
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- Begin date
- 1994-07-04T23:00:00
- End date
- 2017-12-31T00:00:00
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84
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NetCDF fiuduceo format see documentation for
- Basic telemetry: longitude, latitude, time, satellite and solar angles (these angles are not provide for SSMT-2);
- Brightness temperatures for channels 1-5;
-Independent, structured and common uncertainty for channels 1-5;
-for each scan line: original scan line number of the l1b files
- for each scan line: indicator which l1b file it belongs to
-8 bitfields indicating identified problems with the data: one bitmask indicating level of trust in the data (per pixel and scanline), one bitmaks indicating sensor specific quality issues (per pixel and scanline); one bitmask indicating quality issues per scan line, i.e. transmitter status so far (per scanline), 5 bitmasks indicating certain quality issues for each channel (per pixel and per scanline)
The dimensions of the variables in the NetCDF file are x and y, indicating the pixel and scan line, respectively. Additionally, there are the dimensions channel and n_frequencies, denoting the number of channels and the number of frequencies (for which Spectral Response Function is defined).
full descriptions of file specification and product User Guide in Documentation
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
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FIDUCEO Project Website
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FIDUCEO Training Materials
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Noise performance of microwave humidity sounders over their life time
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Inter-channel uniformity of a microwave sounder in space
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Disk-Integrated Lunar Brightness Temperatures Between 89 and 190 GHz
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Towards a new fundamental climate data record for microwave humidity sounders based on metrological best practice
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Version 4.1 FIDUCEO MW processing software
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Metrology Cookbook
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Principal behind FIDUCEO FCDR effects table
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Microwave report on FCDR uncertainty
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Scientific basis for FDCRs
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Product User Guide Microwave FCDR release 4.1
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FCDR Reader/Writer software report
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Microwave FCDR release note
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FIDUCEO CDR/FCDR Format Specification
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- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- Data provided to CEDA for publication by the University of Hamburg as part of the FIDUCEO project. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 638822.
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- a8e9f44965434f3b861eba77688701ef XML
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Character set
- 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 UTF8
- Parent identifier
- FIDUCEO: Collection of Climate data records from Earth Observations Satellites from the FIDUCEO (Fidelity and uncertainty in climate data records from Earth Observations) project f6f424ff804b434685e2913e5bd2f3b0
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- dataset Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2026-05-06T02:18:00
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
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