SOLab product specification

From

Current document describes the format of the new product. Please also refer to the short summary of the CF convention prepared from the original source CF convention.

Contents 1 Product design 1.1 Filename structure 1.2 Recommended NetCDF format structure 1.2.1 Header 1.2.2 Variables

Product design

Given:

lat, lon, time, 4 parameters: Q – water vapor, W – cloud liquid, V – wind speed, T – temperature. This is for one swath, and we have 14 ascending and 14 descending swaths per day. Time is for a scan, pixels in scan are always 196, number of scans per swath is about 2000 and this varies from swath to swath.

Filename structure

SOLAB_AMSRE_?_YYYYMMdd_v1.nc

Recommended NetCDF format structure

Header

Attribute	Value
NC_GLOBAL.title
NC_GLOBAL.title_short_name
NC_GLOBAL.institution	Satellite Oceanography Laboratory, RSHU
NC_GLOBAL.source
NC_GLOBAL.history
NC_GLOBAL.references
NC_GLOBAL.comment
NC_GLOBAL.Conventions	CF-1.6
NC_GLOBAL.granule_name
NC_GLOBAL.processing_level
NC_GLOBAL.start_date
NC_GLOBAL.start_time
NC_GLOBAL.stop_date
NC_GLOBAL.stop_time
NC_GLOBAL.references
NC_GLOBAL.creation_date
NC_GLOBAL.creation_time

Variables

Variable	Attributes
latitude	long_name: latitude units: degrees_north standard_name: latitude
longitude	long_name: longitude units: degrees_east standard_name: longitude
time	long_name: time units: s standard_name: time
atmosphere_water_vapor_content	long_name: units: kg m-2 standard_name: scale_factor: add_offset: _FillValue:
atmosphere_cloud_liquid_water_content	long_name: units: kg m-2 standard_name: scale_factor: add_offset: _FillValue:
wind_speed	long_name: wind speed units: m s-2 standard_name: wind speed scale_factor: add_offset: _FillValue:
sea_surface_temperature	long_name: sea surface temperature units: K standard_name: sea surface temperature scale_factor: add_offset: _FillValue: