Verification file for Remote Sensing Systems' AMSR-E binary data files Version-7 data (released November, 2011). **************************************************** PLEASE NOTE, THERE IS A CHANGE TO THE OFFSET TO CLOUD IN V7 VERSION 5 OFFSET was 0.0 VERSION 7 OFFSET IS -0.05 **************************************************** The following data can be used to determine if your adapted processing routine is correctly reading the RSS AMSR-E binary data file. To accurately compare these data, you need to download the respective file to check: Time Directory File daily passes amsre/bmaps_v07/y2002/m07/ f32_20020715v7.gz 3-day mean amsre/bmaps_v07/y2002/m07/ f32_20020715v7_d3d.gz weekly mean amsre/bmaps_v07/weeks/ f32_20020720v7.gz monthly mean amsre/bmaps_v07/y2002/m07/ f32_200207v7.gz Each of these files contains AMSR-E data for: the day July 15th, 2002 (daily) the days July 14, 15 and 16th, 2002 (3-day mean) July 14th (Sunday) to July 20th (Saturday), 2002 (weekly mean) or the month of July 2002 (monthly mean) Once you have obtained the correct file, read it with your program and write out the data for the following subsets: Fortran, Matlab and other 1-based languages: Daily: (170:175,274:278,1:7,1) from the full array sized (1440,720,7,2) Mean: (170:175,274:278,1:6) from the full array sized (1440,720,6) IDL, and other 0-based languages: Daily: (169:174,273:277,0:6,0) from the full array sized (1440,720,7,2) Mean: (169:174,273:277,0:5) from the full array sized (1440,720,6) The binary file contains numbers 0 to 255 0 - 250 are valid geophysical data. The remaining 5 numbers are coded: 251 = areas in which no data was processed 252 = sea ice > 0% 253 = bad data such as along coastline regions 254 = regions of no observations 255 = land These data are for a small section in the Mozambique Channel just west of Madagascar. LL 42.375,-21.625 to UR 43.625,-20.625 The array position is related to latitude and longitude by: XLAT= 0.25*ILAT - 90.125 XLON= 0.25*ILON - 0.125 All of the following data are listed with longitudinal values in columns and latitudinal values as rows. Therefore, there are six columns and five rows per geophysical parameter. Values follow for Daily, 3-day, Weekly and Monthly maps in that order: amsre_20020715v7.gz ****************** Daily ********************************* gmt time, valid data range 0 to 1440 (in hours) 170 171 172 173 174 175 10.50 10.50 10.50 10.50 10.50 255.00 274 10.50 10.50 10.50 10.50 10.50 255.00 275 10.50 10.50 10.50 10.50 10.50 10.50 276 10.50 10.50 10.50 10.50 10.50 10.50 277 10.50 10.50 10.50 10.50 10.50 10.50 278 sea surface temperature, valid data range -3 to 34.5 (degree C) 24.45 251.00 251.00 253.00 253.00 255.00 24.75 24.90 251.00 251.00 253.00 255.00 25.05 25.20 251.00 251.00 251.00 253.00 25.35 25.35 25.35 251.00 251.00 253.00 25.50 25.35 25.35 251.00 251.00 251.00 wind speed low frequency, valid data range 0 to 50.0 (meters/second) 5.80 4.80 251.00 253.00 253.00 255.00 5.80 5.00 4.60 251.00 253.00 255.00 5.40 4.60 3.60 251.00 251.00 253.00 4.60 3.60 2.80 2.20 251.00 253.00 3.60 2.80 2.00 1.80 251.00 251.00 wind speed medium frequency, valid data range 0 to 50.0 (meters/second) 6.40 5.00 3.80 253.00 253.00 255.00 5.60 5.20 3.80 3.00 253.00 255.00 5.20 4.40 3.60 2.40 1.80 253.00 4.40 3.80 3.00 2.20 1.20 253.00 3.60 2.60 2.00 2.00 1.40 .80 water vapor, valid data range 0 to 75 (millimeters) 21.00 20.10 19.20 253.00 253.00 255.00 21.00 20.70 20.10 20.10 253.00 255.00 20.70 21.00 20.70 20.40 20.40 253.00 20.70 20.70 21.30 20.70 20.70 253.00 21.00 21.00 21.30 20.70 21.00 21.60 cloud, valid data range -0.05 to 2.45 (millimeters) .01 .01 .00 253.00 253.00 255.00 .01 .01 .01 .00 253.00 255.00 .00 .01 .01 .01 -.01 253.00 .01 .01 .02 .01 .00 253.00 .01 .01 .02 .01 .00 .00 rain rate, valid data range 0 to 25 (millimeters/hour) .00 .00 .00 253.00 253.00 255.00 .00 .00 .00 .00 253.00 255.00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 253.00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 253.00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 ***********3-day****************** amsre_20020715v7_d3d.gz sea surface temperature, valid data range -3 to 34.5 (degree C) 24.30 24.75 25.20 253.00 253.00 255.00 24.60 24.90 25.20 251.00 253.00 255.00 24.90 25.05 25.20 25.35 251.00 253.00 25.20 25.20 25.20 25.35 251.00 253.00 25.35 25.35 25.20 25.50 251.00 251.00 wind speed low frequency, valid data range 0 to 50.0 (meters/second) 4.60 4.40 6.00 253.00 253.00 255.00 4.60 4.40 4.00 3.40 253.00 255.00 4.60 4.20 3.80 3.20 251.00 253.00 4.40 4.00 3.80 2.80 251.00 253.00 4.00 3.80 3.60 2.80 3.80 251.00 wind speed medium frequency, valid data range 0 to 50.0 (meters/second) 5.40 5.00 4.00 253.00 253.00 255.00 5.00 4.60 3.60 2.60 253.00 255.00 4.80 4.20 3.60 2.80 2.40 253.00 4.40 4.20 3.80 2.80 2.40 253.00 4.00 4.00 4.00 3.20 2.80 3.00 water vapor, valid data range 0 to 75 (millimeters) 19.50 18.60 17.70 253.00 253.00 255.00 19.50 18.60 18.00 18.00 253.00 255.00 19.50 18.90 18.30 17.70 17.10 253.00 19.50 18.90 18.60 18.00 17.40 253.00 19.50 19.20 18.60 18.00 17.70 18.30 cloud, valid data range -0.05 to 2.45 (millimeters) .01 .00 .00 253.00 253.00 255.00 .01 .00 .00 .00 253.00 255.00 .00 .00 .00 .00 -.01 253.00 .00 .00 .01 .01 .00 253.00 .00 .01 .00 .00 .00 -.01 rain rate, valid data range 0 to 25 (millimeters/hour) .00 .00 .00 253.00 253.00 255.00 .00 .00 .00 .00 253.00 255.00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 253.00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 253.00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 ***********weekly****************** amsre_20020720v7.gz sea surface temperature, valid data range -3 to 34.5 (degree C) 24.15 24.75 25.20 253.00 253.00 255.00 24.45 24.75 25.20 251.00 253.00 255.00 24.90 24.90 25.20 25.35 251.00 253.00 25.35 25.20 25.20 25.35 251.00 253.00 25.35 25.35 25.35 25.50 251.00 251.00 wind speed low frequency, valid data range 0 to 50.0 (meters/second) 5.00 5.00 6.00 253.00 253.00 255.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 3.40 253.00 255.00 4.80 4.80 5.00 3.20 251.00 253.00 4.80 4.80 5.00 4.80 251.00 253.00 4.40 4.60 4.80 4.80 5.40 251.00 wind speed medium frequency, valid data range 0 to 50.0 (meters/second) 5.00 5.00 5.00 253.00 253.00 255.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 4.80 253.00 255.00 5.00 4.80 4.80 4.60 5.00 253.00 4.80 5.00 4.80 4.80 4.80 253.00 4.60 4.60 4.60 4.80 4.40 4.40 water vapor, valid data range 0 to 75 (millimeters) 21.60 21.60 21.30 253.00 253.00 255.00 21.90 21.60 21.60 21.90 253.00 255.00 21.90 22.20 21.90 22.50 23.40 253.00 22.20 22.20 22.20 22.80 23.70 253.00 22.50 22.50 22.50 23.10 24.00 24.60 cloud, valid data range -0.05 to 2.45 (millimeters) .00 -.01 -.01 253.00 253.00 255.00 .00 .00 -.01 -.01 253.00 255.00 -.01 .00 .00 -.01 -.01 253.00 -.01 -.01 .00 -.01 -.01 253.00 -.01 .00 .00 -.01 -.01 .00 rain rate, valid data range 0 to 25 (millimeters/hour) .00 .00 .00 253.00 253.00 255.00 .00 .00 .00 .00 253.00 255.00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 253.00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 253.00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 ***********month****************** amsre_200207v7.gz sea surface temperature, valid data range -3 to 34.5 (degree C) 24.30 24.75 25.20 253.00 253.00 255.00 24.60 24.60 25.20 251.00 253.00 255.00 24.75 24.90 25.20 25.35 251.00 253.00 25.05 25.05 25.20 25.35 251.00 253.00 25.20 25.35 25.35 25.50 251.00 251.00 wind speed low frequency, valid data range 0 to 50.0 (meters/second) 5.00 5.20 6.00 253.00 253.00 255.00 5.00 5.00 5.20 3.40 253.00 255.00 4.80 5.00 5.20 3.20 251.00 253.00 4.80 5.00 5.40 5.40 251.00 253.00 4.80 5.00 5.20 5.20 5.40 251.00 wind speed medium frequency, valid data range 0 to 50.0 (meters/second) 5.20 5.20 5.00 253.00 253.00 255.00 5.00 5.20 5.20 5.00 253.00 255.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 4.80 4.80 253.00 4.80 5.20 5.00 5.00 4.80 253.00 5.00 5.20 5.00 5.00 4.80 5.00 water vapor, valid data range 0 to 75 (millimeters) 22.20 22.20 22.20 253.00 253.00 255.00 22.50 22.50 22.50 22.50 253.00 255.00 22.80 22.80 22.80 23.10 23.10 253.00 22.80 23.10 23.10 23.40 23.70 253.00 22.80 23.10 23.40 23.70 24.00 24.30 cloud, valid data range -0.05 to 2.45 (millimeters) .00 .00 .00 253.00 253.00 255.00 .00 .00 .00 -.01 253.00 255.00 .00 .00 .00 -.01 -.01 253.00 .00 .00 .00 .00 -.01 253.00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 -.01 rain rate, valid data range 0 to 25 (millimeters/hour) .00 .00 .00 253.00 253.00 255.00 .00 .00 .00 .00 253.00 255.00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 253.00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 253.00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 If you have different values, please check your program first before contacting RSS. 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