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Surface-based Passive Microwave Brightness Temperatures - Canadian Arctic during the 2009 ArcticNet / Industrial Partnership Field Study
Continuous measurements of emissivity at 89 and 37 GHz frequencies in vertical and horizontal polarizations at a fixed elevation angle of 55 degrees during transit and scanning elevation angles of 30-150 degrees at every station were acquired. The radiometers were installed at the 200 level on the CCGS Amundsen icebreaker on the port side. Generally the instruments acquired data at the fixed elevation angle during transit, and 3-5 scans were performed at every station along with auxiliary data collection (GPS data, geographic location of the station, photographs of the same field of view, air temperature, wind data, atmospheric conditions, surface characteristics, etc.). The acquired data are in binary format which is produced for every scan and fixed modes. The time in the data logger is generally set to UTC. An example filename would be 'RADDAT-2007-11-06-122647.DAT'.
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- Date (Publication)
- 2015-01-16
- Other citation details
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Unpublished
- Purpose
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This data set has been developed to study the microwave emissions coming off the sea ice, surface snow and sea water. The emissions can be used for various applications such as growth and melting of sea ice in different seasons. Depending on the turbulence in the ocean and the atmospheric boundary layer, the emissions will correspond to different turbulence conditions. Therefore, the turbulence in the boundary layer can be studied using these data. The microwave emissions depend upon the dielectric properties of the surface. Different ice types have different dielectric properties. Thus information on types of ice can be inferred from these data. This data is also collected at the same frequencies as used on the AMSR-E and AMSR-E 2 satellite-based sensors. Surface-based datasets can be used to validate the satellite-derived data.
- Status
- Completed
Canadian Cryospheric Information Network
-Polar Data Catalogue
200 University Avenue West, University of Waterloo
,Waterloo
,Ontario
,N2L 3G1
,Canada
polardata.ca
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Polar Data Catalogue Thesaurus (Canada)
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Amundsen Gulf
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Dielectric
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Emissions
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Frequency
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Microwave
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Oceans
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Polarization
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Radiation
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Radiometer
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Sea ice
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- Place
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Amundsen Gulf
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- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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Terms of Use of the Polar Data Catalogue: https://www.polardata.ca/pdcinput/public/termsofuse
- Metadata language
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eng; CAN
- Topic category
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- Environment
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- Begin date
- 2009-07-15
- End date
- 2009-11-16
- Supplemental Information
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Summary: Not Applicable Research Program(s): ArcticNet. For further information: dbarber@cc.umanitoba.ca dbarber@cc.uma Summary: Not Applicable Research Program(s): ArcticNet. For further information: dbarber@cc.umanitoba.ca
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Digital file
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Canadian Cryospheric Information Network
-Polar Data Catalogue
200 University Avenue West, University of Waterloo
,Waterloo
,Ontario
,N2L 3G1
,Canada
- Included with dataset
- No
- File identifier
- d0ef0728-5b9f-462b-b22f-5ae5377dcfcc XML
- Metadata language
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eng; CAN
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2022-04-08T13:00:20
- Metadata standard name
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North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003
- Metadata standard version
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2009-01-01
Canadian Cryospheric Information Network
-Polar Data Catalogue
200 University Avenue West, University of Waterloo
,Waterloo
,Ontario
,N2L 3G1
,Canada
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