FIDUCEO: Fundamental Climate Data Record of Microwave Brightness Temperatures with uncertainties, 1994 - 2017, v4.1

The FIDUCEO Microwave Fundamental Climate data record, v4.1, contains microwave brightness temperatures and uncertainties for series of satellite instruments (all mission years of SSMT2 on F11, F12, F14, F15; AMSU-B on NOAA15, NOAA16 and NOAA17; and MHS missions (NOAA18, NOAA19, MetopA,-B)). The presented FCDR is a long data record of increased consistency among the instruments compared to the operational data record and is a long enough data record to generate climate data records (CDRs) for climate research. The improvements are based on the strict application of the measurement equation as well as dedicated corrections and improvements within the calibration process. The data record contains quantified uncertainty components, respecting the correlation behaviour of underlying effects.



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

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Date (Publication)
2019-09-12T15:34:53
Date (Creation)
2019-09-12T15:34:53
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https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/a8e9f44965434f3b861eba77688701ef
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Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / a8e9f44965434f3b861eba77688701ef
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doi / 10.5285/a8e9f44965434f3b861eba77688701ef
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Hans, Imke

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Burgdorf, Martin

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Wooliams, Emma

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Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)

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FIDUCEO Project consortium

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Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)

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Merchant, Christopher J.

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Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)

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Merchant, Christopher J.

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Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)

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Keywords

  • FCDR

  • Fundamental Climate Data Record

  • Microwave

  • SSMT-2

  • AMSU-B

  • MHS

  • Uncertainty

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  • orthoimagery
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Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
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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.
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Begin date
1994-07-04T23:00:00
End date
2017-12-31T00:00:00
Unique resource identifier
WGS 84
Distribution format
Name Version

NetCDF fiuduceo format see documentation for



- Basic telemetry: longitude, latitude, time, satellite and solar angles (these angles are not provide for SSMT-2);

- Brightness temperatures for channels 1-5;

-Independent, structured and common uncertainty for channels 1-5;

-for each scan line: original scan line number of the l1b files

- for each scan line: indicator which l1b file it belongs to

-8 bitfields indicating identified problems with the data: one bitmask indicating level of trust in the data (per pixel and scanline), one bitmaks indicating sensor specific quality issues (per pixel and scanline); one bitmask indicating quality issues per scan line, i.e. transmitter status so far (per scanline), 5 bitmasks indicating certain quality issues for each channel (per pixel and per scanline)

The dimensions of the variables in the NetCDF file are x and y, indicating the pixel and scan line, respectively. Additionally, there are the dimensions channel and n_frequencies, denoting the number of channels and the number of frequencies (for which Spectral Response Function is defined).

full descriptions of file specification and product User Guide in Documentation
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)

support@ceda.ac.uk

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OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/a8e9f44965434f3b861eba77688701ef

CEDA Data Catalogue Page
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/fiduceo/data/fcdr/microwave/v4.1/

DOWNLOAD
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
http://www.fiduceo.eu/

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

FIDUCEO Training Materials
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Protocol Linkage Name
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-4927-2017

Noise performance of microwave humidity sounders over their life time
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-4005-2018

Inter-channel uniformity of a microwave sounder in space
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
https://www.hindawi.com/journals/aa/2019/2350476/

Disk-Integrated Lunar Brightness Temperatures Between 89 and 190 GHz
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
http://ediss.sub.uni-hamburg.de/volltexte/2018/9454/

Towards a new fundamental climate data record for microwave humidity sounders based on metrological best practice
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
https://github.com/FIDUCEO/FCDR_MW

Version 4.1 FIDUCEO MW processing software
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
https://zenodo.org/record/7357153

Metrology Cookbook
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Protocol Linkage Name
https://zenodo.org/record/7357165

Principal behind FIDUCEO FCDR effects table
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Protocol Linkage Name
https://zenodo.org/record/7357167

Microwave report on FCDR uncertainty
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Protocol Linkage Name
https://zenodo.org/record/7357188

Scientific basis for FDCRs
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Protocol Linkage Name
https://zenodo.org/record/7357200

Product User Guide Microwave FCDR release 4.1
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
https://zenodo.org/record/7357224

FCDR Reader/Writer software report
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
https://zenodo.org/record/7357233

Microwave FCDR release note
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
https://zenodo.org/record/7357247

FIDUCEO CDR/FCDR Format Specification
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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

Data provided to CEDA for publication by the University of Hamburg as part of the FIDUCEO project. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 638822.

Metadata

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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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Dataset
Date stamp
2026-02-05T03:17:27
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version

2.3
Metadata author
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Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)

support@ceda.ac.uk

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