Measurements and Applications
Measurements of water vapour, cloud liquid water, precipitation, winds, sea surface temperature, sea ice concentration, snow cover and soil moisture. Instrument stopped functioning 4th October 2011.
Full Name
Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer-EOS
Status
No longer operational
Instrument Agencies
Maturity
High Heritage - Operational
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
HDF4, HDF5
Resolution
5 - 50 km (dependent on frequency)
Accuracy
Reprocessing of V8 by applying the latest AMSR2 algorithms is ongoing and will be released in 2019. Accuracy of the latest standard products (V8, RMSE): Sea surface temperature: 0.54 degC, Sea ice concentration: 8%, Cloud liquid water: 0.03 kg/m2, Water vapour: 1.6 kg/m2 through total column, Sea surface wind speed 1.0 m/s, (Relative Error in %) Precipitation rate: 66 % for ocean & 91 % for land. (MAE) Snow depth: 17.7 cm, Soil Moisture Content: 5 %vol.
Waveband
Microwave: 6.925 GHz, 10.65 GHz, 18.7 GHz, 23. 8 GHz, 36.5 GHz, 89.0 GHz
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