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Conical Scanning Millimeter-wave Imaging Radiometer – Hyperspectral (CoSMIR-H) WHyMSIE version 2
Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR and NASA Data Portal — shown once because both records carry DOI 10.5067/whymsie/cosmirh/data102
Description
The Conical Scanning Millimeter-wave Imaging Radiometer – Hyperspectral (CoSMIR-H) dataset consists of calibrated and geolocated brightness temperature (TB) measurements collected from the Westcoast & Heartland Hyperspectral Microwave Sensor Intensive Experiment (WH2yMSIE) campaign onboard the NASA ER-2 high altitude research aircraft. CoSMIR-H provides multi-frequency observations between 50 and 191 GHz that can be used to derive temperature profiles, water vapor profiles, cloud properties, and precipitation rate.
WH2yMSIE demonstrated measurements from a hyperspectral microwave airborne sensor (CoSMIR-H) that was complemented by other passive (infrared, visible) and active (lidar, radar) sensors onboard the NASA ER-2 aircraft alongside additional lidar sensors and dropsondes on the G-III aircraft. Serving as a future NASA planetary boundary layer (PBL) mission prototype, WH2yMSIE aimed to capture a wide variety of temperature, moisture, and PBL regimes across a variety of surface types to provide synergistic observations for PBL studies from multiple types of sensors.
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CoSMIR-H data files are available from October 18, 2024, through November 13, 2024, in netCDF-4 format.
Links
Get the data
- PDF ghrc.earthdata.nasa.gov/browseui ↗
The Airborne Hyperspectral Microwave Sounder CoSMIR-H
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- Resource doi.org/10.1109/igarss53475.2024.10641560 ↗
The West-Coast Hyperspectral Microwave Sensor Intensive Experiment (WHYMSIE)
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- PDF ghrc.earthdata.nasa.gov/browseui ↗
The guide document contains detailed information about the dataset
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- Resource doi.org/10.1109/tgrs.2012.2200690 ↗
Observations of Storm Signatures by the Recently Modified Conical Scanning Millimeter-Wave Imaging Radiometer
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- Resource doi.org/10.1109/tgrs.2006.885410 ↗
Airborne CoSMIR Observations Between 50 and 183 GHz over Snow-Covered Sierra Mountains
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- Resource doi.org/10.1109/tgrs.2007.904038 ↗
A comparison of Near Concurrent Measurements from the SSMIS and CoSMIR for some Selected Channels over the Frequency Range of 50-183 GHz
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- Data Use and Citation Guidance earthdata.nasa.gov/engage/open-data-services-software-policies/data-use-guidance ↗
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- Resource nasa.gov/centers/armstrong/news/FactSheets/FS-046-DFRC.html ↗
NASA Armstrong Fact Sheet: ER-2 High-Altitude Airborne Science Aircraft
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- Original Metadata cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C4217320271-GHRC_DAAC.iso19115 ↗
download · from data nasa gov
- search.earthdata.nasa.gov /portal/ghrc/search?q=cosmirwhymsie ↗
Files may be downloaded directly to your workstation from this link
download · from NASA CMR
Where it is published
- NASA Data Portal dataset page data.nasa.gov/dataset/conical-scanning-millimeter-wave-imaging-radiometer-hy… ↗
landing page · from data nasa gov
- DOI doi.org/10.5067/whymsie/cosmirh/data102 ↗
DOI / persistent id · from NASA CMR
Catalogue records · 3
- CMR UMM-JSON cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C4217320271-GHRC_DAAC.umm_json ↗
metadata API · from NASA CMR
- CKAN API data.nasa.gov/api/3/action/package_show?id=18377ce0-e03d-4699-ac8e-6fb4c5111… ↗
metadata API · from data nasa gov
- CMR record cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C4217320271-GHRC_DAAC.html ↗
catalogue entry · from NASA CMR
Topics
- Stated by source
- Brightness Temperature · Conical Scanning Millimeter-wave Imaging Radiometer · NASA Earth Resources-2
- From keywords
- Astronomy & Astrophysics · Earth & Environmental Science · Engineering · Ocean & Atmospheric Science · Physics
- Inferred from text
- Imaging 75%
Provenance · 2 source records, 19 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| NASA Earthdata CMR | C4217320271-GHRC_DAAC | 7 d ago | JSON v1 |
| NASA Data Portal | 18377ce0-e03d-4699-ac8e-6fb4c51119a8 | 4 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| access_level | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:astronomy | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:engineering | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:ocean-atmospheric | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:physics | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[instrument].gcmd_instrument:cosmir | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/spectral-engineering/microwave/brightness-temperature | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[modality].local:modality:imaging | enrichment · NASA CMR | keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0 | title+description (75%) |
| concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:nasa-er-2 | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| created_date | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/Abstract |
| license_text | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| publication_date | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| spatial | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/SpatialExtent |
| temporal | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/TemporalExtents |
| title | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/EntryTitle |
| updated_date | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| version_label | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 |