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FIDUCEO: Microwave Upper Troposheric Humidity and Uncertainties, Climate Data Record, 1994-2017, V1.2

The The FIDelity and Uncertainty in Climate data records from Earth Observations (FIDUCEO) project Upper Tropospheric Humidity (UTH) Climate Data Record version 1.2 dataset is derived from satellite brightness temperatures and uncertainties from the FIDUCEO Microwave Fundamental Climate Data Record (FCDR). The instantaneous observations from the FIDUCEO Microwave FCDR are used to derive a spatio-temporal averaged data record, which contains monthly mean UTH and brightness temperature mapped to a regular latitude/longitude grid covering the tropical region (-30° to 30° N), with a spatial resolution of 1° x 1°. It covers all mission years of the Special Senson Microwave for Temperature (SSMT2) instrument on the F11, F12, F14, F15 satellites, the Advanced Mircowave Sounding Unit (AMSU-B ) instrument on the NOAA 15-17 satellites and the Microwave Humidity Sounder (MHS) instruments on the NOAA18, NOAA19, MetopA, Metop-B satellites.

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Date (Publication)
2019-09-12T16:31:51
Date (Creation)
2019-09-12T16:31:51
Identifier
https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/2083b33b5c3d4cf0acb9a49226789caa
Identifier
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / 2083b33b5c3d4cf0acb9a49226789caa
Identifier
doi / 10.5285/2083b33b5c3d4cf0acb9a49226789caa
Author
  Unavailable - Lang, Theresa ( author )
Author
  Unavailable - Buehler, Stefan ( author )
Author
  Unavailable - Burgdorf, Martin ( author )
Author
  Unavailable - Hans, Imke ( author )
Custodian
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - custodian
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
Owner
  FIDUCEO Project consortium - data_owner
Distributor
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - distributor
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
Principal investigator
  Unavailable - Merchant, Christopher J. ( principal_investigator )
pointofContact
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - point_of_contact
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
pointofContact
  Unavailable - Merchant, Christopher J. ( point_of_contact )
Publisher
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - publisher
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
Maintenance and update frequency
notPlanned Not planned
Update scope
dataset Dataset
Keywords
  • CDR
  • Climate Data Record
  • Upper Trosphere Humidity
  • Microwave
  • SSMT-2
  • AMSU-B
  • MHS
  • Uncertainty
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • orthoimagery
Access constraints
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Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
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Under the following licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, appropriate use of these data may fall under any use. This message is intended as guidance, always read the full licence. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.
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Begin date
1994-06-30T23:00:00
End date
2017-12-31T00:00:00
Unique resource identifier
WGS 84
Distribution format
  • The file format is netCDF, and each UTH CDR file for this version contains:Longitudes and Latitudes of grid cell centres and grid cell boundaries; Observation and satellite overpass counts for ascending and descending branches; Earliest and latest time of day of pixel contribution to the monthly average, for ascending and descending branches;; Monthly average and standard deviation of 183.31±1 GHz brightness temperatures that were used to derive UTH (excluding cloudy pixels), for ascending and descending branches;Monthly average of all 183.31±1 GHzbrightness temperatures (including cloudy pixels), for ascending and descending branches;Monthly average and standard deviation of UTH (derived from channel 3 brightness temperatures);Independent, structured and common uncertainty for monthly averages of brightness temperatures and UTH, for ascending and descending branches;The dimensions of the variables in the NetCDF file are xand y, indicating east-west and north-south direction, respectively. For further information see thefile format specification in the documentation. ()

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  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - Data Center Contact
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
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FIDUCEO UTH CDR Quick Start Guide

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FIDUCEO UTH CDR Product User Guide

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FIDUCEO UTH CDR release note

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FIDUCEO CDR/FCDR Format Specification

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Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Statement
Provided by Theresa Lang of the University of Hamburg (part of FIDUCEO project team) to CEDA for archival and publication. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 638822.
File identifier
2083b33b5c3d4cf0acb9a49226789caa 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
2025-11-15T03:16:36
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version
2.3
Point of contact
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
 
 

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