Measurements and Applications
Measurements of water vapour, cloud liquid water, precipitation including snowfall, winds, sea surface temperature, sea ice concentration, snow cover, soil moisture.
Full Name
Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 3
Status
Operational
Instrument Agencies
Maturity
Instrument Type
Imaging multi-spectral radiometers (passive microwave) 
Geometry
Conical scanning
Instrument Technology
Multi-purpose imaging MW radiometer
Sampling
Imaging
Data Access
Open Access
Data Format
NetCDF
Resolution
5 - 50 km (dependent on frequency)
Swath
1535 km (effective swath)
Accuracy
Target and standard accuracies for each standard product were defined from user requirements. Ocean 2.65 / Land 3.73kg/m2
Waveband
Microwave: 6.925 GHz, 7.3 GHz, 10.25 GHz, 10.65 GHz, 18.7 GHz, 23.8 GHz, 36.5 GHz, 89.0 GHz, 165.5 GHz, 183.3 GHz