FIDUCEO: Microwave Upper Troposheric Humidity and Uncertainties, Climate Data Record, 1994-2017, V1.2

The The FIDelity and Uncertainty in Climate data records from Earth Observations (FIDUCEO) project Upper Tropospheric Humidity (UTH) Climate Data Record version 1.2 dataset is derived from satellite brightness temperatures and uncertainties from the FIDUCEO Microwave Fundamental Climate Data Record (FCDR). The instantaneous observations from the FIDUCEO Microwave FCDR are used to derive a spatio-temporal averaged data record, which contains monthly mean UTH and brightness temperature mapped to a regular latitude/longitude grid covering the tropical region (-30° to 30° N), with a spatial resolution of 1° x 1°. It covers all mission years of the Special Senson Microwave for Temperature (SSMT2) instrument on the F11, F12, F14, F15 satellites, the Advanced Mircowave Sounding Unit (AMSU-B ) instrument on the NOAA 15-17 satellites and the Microwave Humidity Sounder (MHS) instruments on the NOAA18, NOAA19, MetopA, Metop-B satellites.

Full documentation including product user guide, tutorials and relevant publications are available in the documentation

Date (Publication): 2019-09-12T16:31:51

Date (Creation): 2019-09-12T16:31:51

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/2083b33b5c3d4cf0acb9a49226789caa

Citation identifier: Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / 2083b33b5c3d4cf0acb9a49226789caa

Citation identifier: doi / 10.5285/2083b33b5c3d4cf0acb9a49226789caa

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Unavailable	Lang, Theresa	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Buehler, Stefan	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Burgdorf, Martin	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Hans, Imke	Unavailable	Author
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Custodian
FIDUCEO Project consortium		unknown	Owner
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Distributor
Unavailable	Merchant, Christopher J.	Unavailable	Principal investigator
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	pointofContact
Unavailable	Merchant, Christopher J.	Unavailable	pointofContact
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Publisher

Maintenance and update frequency: Not planned

Update scope: Dataset

Keywords

CDR
Climate Data Record
Upper Trosphere Humidity
Microwave
SSMT-2
AMSU-B
MHS
Uncertainty

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

orthoimagery

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Other constraints: Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.

Use constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Under the following licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, appropriate use of these data may fall under any use. This message is intended as guidance, always read the full licence. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.

Spatial representation type: Grid

Language: English

Topic category

Imagery base maps earth cover

Begin date: 1994-06-30T23:00:00

End date: 2017-12-31T00:00:00

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

Distribution format

Name	Version
The file format is netCDF, and each UTH CDR file for this version contains:Longitudes and Latitudes of grid cell centres and grid cell boundaries; Observation and satellite overpass counts for ascending and descending branches; Earliest and latest time of day of pixel contribution to the monthly average, for ascending and descending branches;; Monthly average and standard deviation of 183.31±1 GHz brightness temperatures that were used to derive UTH (excluding cloudy pixels), for ascending and descending branches;Monthly average of all 183.31±1 GHzbrightness temperatures (including cloudy pixels), for ascending and descending branches;Monthly average and standard deviation of UTH (derived from channel 3 brightness temperatures);Independent, structured and common uncertainty for monthly averages of brightness temperatures and UTH, for ascending and descending branches;The dimensions of the variables in the NetCDF file are xand y, indicating east-west and north-south direction, respectively. For further information see thefile format specification in the documentation.

Name

Version

The file format is netCDF, and each UTH CDR file for this version contains:Longitudes and Latitudes of grid cell centres and grid cell boundaries; Observation and satellite overpass counts for ascending and descending branches; Earliest and latest time of day of pixel contribution to the monthly average, for ascending and descending branches;; Monthly average and standard deviation of 183.31±1 GHz brightness temperatures that were used to derive UTH (excluding cloudy pixels), for ascending and descending branches;Monthly average of all 183.31±1 GHzbrightness temperatures (including cloudy pixels), for ascending and descending branches;Monthly average and standard deviation of UTH (derived from channel 3 brightness temperatures);Independent, structured and common uncertainty for monthly averages of brightness temperatures and UTH, for ascending and descending branches;The dimensions of the variables in the NetCDF file are xand y, indicating east-west and north-south direction, respectively. For further information see thefile format specification in the documentation.

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Distributor

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/2083b33b5c3d4cf0acb9a49226789caa	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/fiduceo/data/cdr/UTH_MW/v1.2/	DOWNLOAD

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.fiduceo.eu/	FIDUCEO Project Website

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.fiduceo.eu/tutorials-menu	FIDUCEO Training Materials

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://github.com/FIDUCEO/USER_TOOLS	FIDUCEO User Tools

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://github.com/FIDUCEO/CDR_UTH	FDCR UTH CDR processing software

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://zenodo.org/record/7357153	Metrology Cookbook

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://zenodo.org/record/7357184	FIDUCEO UTH CDR Quick Start Guide

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://zenodo.org/record/7357186	FIDUCEO UTH CDR Product User Guide

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://zenodo.org/record/7357235	FIDUCEO UTH CDR release note

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://zenodo.org/record/7357247	FIDUCEO CDR/FCDR Format Specification

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Conformance result

Title: Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Statement: Provided by Theresa Lang of the University of Hamburg (part of FIDUCEO project team) to CEDA for archival and publication. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 638822.

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File identifier: 2083b33b5c3d4cf0acb9a49226789caa XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Parent identifier: FIDUCEO: Collection of Climate data records from Earth Observations Satellites from the FIDUCEO (Fidelity and uncertainty in climate data records from Earth Observations) project
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Hierarchy level: Dataset

Date stamp: 2025-12-14T03:17:51

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Point of contact

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