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The special sensor microwave / imager (SSM/I) has flown on 6 satellites, and several of the satellites are for overlapping periods. The Remote Sensing Systems (RSS) group has processed SSM/I observations to produce water vapor, cloud water, 10-m wind speed, and precipitation esimates. On the RSS WWW site you can download data and images for the individual satellites. I have averaged the available data for each year and month, and images of this merged data are provided on the present WWW page.
Data:
If you are on the University of
Washington Atmospheric Sciences computers, you can access the netCDF
files. If you are not, you will have to go to the Remote Sensing
Systems WWW page and download and process the data.
At JISAO:
The resolution of the native data is 0.25-degree latitude-longitude
resolution, and I have averaged the data into 0.5-degree
latitide-longitude resolution to make the data set more compact. Even
this is too big to perform much in the way of analyses of years and months.
/home/disk/muggy/data/ssmi/rss
The gzipped files are 398 Mbytes in size when unzipped, and the 0.5-degree
latitude-longitude resolution files are 99 Mbytes.
cloudwaterssmirss19872002.0.5-deg.nc
cloudwaterssmirss19872002.nc.gz
precipssmirss19872002.0.5-deg.nc
precipssmirss19872002.nc.gz
precipssmirssclim.nc 1988-2001 precipitation climatology
sfcspeedssmirss19872002.0.5-deg.nc
sfcspeedssmirss19872002.nc.gz
watervaporssmirss19872002.0.5-deg.nc
watervaporssmirss19872002.nc.gz
October 2002
Todd Mitchell (mitchell@atmos.washington.edu)
JISAO data