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RAL Infrared Microwave Sounder (IMS) temperature, water vapour, ozone and surface spectral emissivity
The Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) Infrared Microwave Sounder (IMS) data set contains vertical profiles of temperature, water vapour, and ozone as well as surface spectral emissivity spanning infrared and microwave, surface temperature, cloud fraction and height. Data are retrieved from co-located measurements by the Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI), the Microwave Humidity Sounder (MHS) and the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU) on board the Eumetsat Metop satellites.
Development of the IMS scheme and data production were funded by the UK’s National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO) under the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), with additional funding from EUMETSAT contract EUM/CO/13/4600001252/THH.
Data were produced by the Remote Sensing Group (RSG) at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL).
This first public release consists of a full processing of the Metop A mission from 2007 to the end of 2016, using version 2.1 of the algorithm.
IMS data are produced with the horizontal sampling of IASI, ~25 x 25 km
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- Date (Publication)
- 2018-09-11T15:03:34
- Date (Creation)
- 2018-09-11T15:03:34
- Identifier
- Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / 489e9b2a0abd43a491d5afdd0d97c1a4
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- doi / http://dx.doi.org/10.5285/489e9b2a0abd43a491d5afdd0d97c1a4
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- IASI
- MHS
- AMSU
- IMS retrieval
- temperature
- water vapour
- surface emissivity
- ozone
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- orthoimagery
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- Imagery base maps earth cover
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- Begin date
- 2007-05-31T23:00:00
- End date
- 2016-12-31T23:59:59
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84
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- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- Data produced by the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) Remote Sensing Group (RSG). The development of the Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI) IMS data was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) through its National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO).
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- 489e9b2a0abd43a491d5afdd0d97c1a4 XML
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- National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO) Core datasets 82b29f96b8c94db28ecc51a479f8c9c6
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- dataset Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-11-16T03:16:06
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
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