The tabe below gives a summary of the available French geophysical data products. Those products will be archived and distributed by the ICARE data center .
There are 6 main processing chains yielding to a variety of products proposed at various scales over the 30°S-30°N region over both ocean and land. More information is given on the "More here" link.
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French Megha-Tropiques Day 1 geophysical products
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Product short name
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Primary Sensor
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Resolution
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Rainfall (Instantaneaous)
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| Surface Rainfall (mm/hr) |
MADRAS |
Instantaneous/scan |
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| Convective Rainfall (mm/hr) |
MADRAS |
Instantaneous/scan |
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| Retrieval error (mm/hr) |
MADRAS |
Instantaneous/scan |
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| Liquid Cloud content profile (28 layers) (g/m3) |
MADRAS |
Instantaneous/scan |
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| Liquid precipitation content profile (28 layers) (g/m3) |
MADRAS |
Instantaneous/scan |
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| Ice Cloud content profile (28 layers) (g/m3) |
MADRAS |
Instantaneous/scan |
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| Ice Precipitation content profile (28 layers) (g/m3) |
MADRAS |
Instantaneous/scan |
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Surface accumulated rainfall
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| Surface rainfall (mm/day) |
MADRAS+all*+GEO** |
1°/1day |
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| Estimated error (mm/day) |
MADRAS+all*+GEO** |
1°/1day |
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MCS composite
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| Composite life cycle of MCS (rainfall, radiation) |
GEO**+MADRAS
GEO**+ScaRaB
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seasonal/regional |
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Water Vapor -Non precipitating conditions (Instantaneous)
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| -Relative humidity profile (7 layers) (%) |
SAPHIR-MADRAS |
Instantaneous/scan |
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| Total Column water vapor (Kg/m2) |
SAPHIR-MADRAS |
Instantaneous/scan |
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| -Upper Tropospheric Humidity (%) |
SAPHIR |
Instantaneous/scan |
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TOA Radiative products (Instantaneous)
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| SW, LW Unfiltered radiances (W/m2/sr) |
ScaRaB |
Instantaneous/scan |
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| SW, LW outgoing fluxes (W/m2) |
ScaRaB |
Instantaneous/scan |
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| Albedo |
ScaRaB |
Instantaneous/scan |
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| SW, LW outgoing fluxes (W/m2)
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ScaRaB |
Instantaneous/1° |
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| Albedo |
ScaRaB |
Instantaneous/1° |
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Cloud cover products (Instantaneous)
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| Cloud mask |
GEO*** |
Instantaneous*** |
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| Cloud type classification |
GEO |
Instantaneous |
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| Cloud top characterisation |
GEO |
Instantaneous |
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*: all available microwave radiometers
**: all available geostationary plateforms
***: GOES-W,GOES-E,MTSAT,SEVIRI, at full temporal and IR spatial resolution
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Last Updated ( Monday, 09 July 2012 )
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