GHRC publishes RSS Monthly 1-deg Microwave Total Precipitable Water netCDF guide

RSS Total Precipitable Water for August 2013

The RSS Monthly 1-deg Microwave Total Precipitable Water netCDF guide describes the MEaSUREs product “Remote Sensing Systems Total Precipitable Water (TPW)”. This dataset is generated at Remote Sensing Systems, merging data from multiple satellite radiometers processed using RSS’s latest radiative transfer model, version-7. The dataset includes monthly files containing 1-degree gridded data for the monthly means of total precipitable water (total column water vapor), the anomalies for global mean precipitable water over Ice Free Oceans (60S to 60N) and the tropical mean for 20S to 20N. Also provided are a 20-year climatology file, and a cumulative file containing the cumulative linear trend in total precipitable water anomaly from 1988 to the current month. Satellite information used in calculating the means is included for the SSMI (8, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15) and SSMIS (16, 17), AQUA10 and Windsat (Coriolis). The data are available in both netCDF-3 and netCDF-4.