Measurements and Applications
Measurements of water vapour, cloud liquid water, precipitation, winds, sea surface temperature, sea ice concentration, snow cover, soil moisture.
Full Name
Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2
Status
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
HDF5
Resolution
5 - 50 km (dependent on frequency)
Swath
1450 km (effective swath: 1618 km)
Accuracy
Accuracy of the latest standard products (RMSE): Sea surface temperature: 0.5 degC, Sea ice concentration: 9%, Cloud liquid water: 0.04 kg/m2, Water vapour: 1.5 kg/m2 through total column, Sea surface wind speed 1.0 m/s, (Relative Error in %) Precipitation rate: 48 % for ocean & 86 % for land. (MAE) Snow depth: 18 cm, Soil Moisture Content: 4 %vol. See GCOM-W Product Information (https://suzaku.eorc.jaxa.jp/GCOM_W/materials/w_productinfo.html) for more detail.
Waveband
Microwave: 6.925 GHz, 7.3 GHz, 10.65 GHz, 18.7 GHz, 23.8 GHz, 36.5 GHz, 89.0 GHz
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GCOM-W - Global Change Observation Mission-Water (2012 - 2025) |