The Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for the Earth Observing System (AMSR-E), NASDA's contribution to the EOS for global energy and water cycle studies

By T. Kawanishi, T. Sezai, Yasuyuki Ito, Keiji Imaoka, T. Takeshima, Y. Ishido, A. Shibata, M. Miura, Hiroyuki Inahata, R. Spencer. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2003

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Global survey and statistics of radio-frequency interference in AMSR-E land observations (2005, background): “Global Survey and Statistics of Radio-Frequency Interference in AMSR-E Land Observations Eni G. Njoku, Fellow, IEEE, Peter Ashcroft, Tsz K. Chan, Senior Member, IEEE, and Li Li, Member, IEEE Abstract—Radio-frequency interference (RFI) is an increasingly serious problem for passive and active…”
Direct 4D‐Var assimilation of all‐sky radiances. Part II: Assessment (2010, background): “, 1990) on the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) F-13 and F-14 satellites; • Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for the Earth Observing System (AMSR-E; Kawanishi et al., 2003) on the Aqua satellite; • Special Sensor Microwave Imager Sounder (SSMIS; Kunkee et al.”
Whitecap coverage from satellite measurements: A first step toward modeling the variability of oceanic whitecaps (2006, background): “Indeed, none of the current satelliteborne microwave sensors, even with the smallest antenna footprint of 4 km 6 km (AMSR-E, 89 GHz [Kawanishi et al., 2003]), can resolve an individual whitecap having a length scale of at most 10 m [Bortkovskii, 1987; Dahl and Jessup, 1995].”
Soil moisture retrieval from AMSR-E (2003, unknown): “for ADEOS-II [13].”
Observation errors in all‐sky data assimilation (2011, background): “Microwave imagers such as the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for the Earth Observing System (AMSR-E; Kawanishi et al., 2003) make use of particular frequencies between 7 GHz and 85 GHz where, in clear skies, the atmosphere is semi-transparent and the radiative transfer is dominated by water ”
Aqua: an Earth-Observing Satellite mission to examine water and other climate variables (2003, methodology): “operational users [37], and transmits processed data back to the U.”
Global Precipitation Map Using Satellite-Borne Microwave Radiometers by the GSMaP Project: Production and Validation (2006, unknown): “The AMSR-E has six frequencies with dual-polarization (6.925, 10.65, 18.7, 23.8, 36.5, and 89.0 GHz) [27].”
The Observed State of the Water Cycle in the Early Twenty-First Century (2015, methodology): “Uncertainty was estimated using basic sampling theory and propagation of errors to determine both systematic and random errors, using over six million measurements from the voluntary observing ships database (Kent et al. 1999).”