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TRMM Level 3 Monthly 0.5° x 0.5° Convective and Stratiform Heating CSH
Data Access for CSH: http://mirador.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/mirador/presentNavigation.pl?tree=project&dataset=CSH:%20Monthly%200.5%20x%200.5%20degree%20Convective/Stratiform%20Heating&project=TRMM&dataGroup=Gridded&version=006
Contents of the TRMM Level 3 Monthly 0.5° x 0.5° Convective and Stratiform Heating CSH This document provides basic information on CSH,Monthly 0.5° x 0.5° Latent Heating. Algorithm CSH produces global 0.5° x 0.5° monthly latent heating profiles from surface convective rain rate and surface stratiform rain rate. The data flow of all products are shown in the Satellite Algorithm Flow Diagram
Data Characteristics | Temporal Coverage | Start Date: 1998-01-01; Stop Date: - | | Geographic Coverage | Latitude: 37°S - 37°N; Longitude:180°W - 180°E | | Temporal Resolution | Monthly | | Horizontal Resolution | 0.5° x 0.5°; nlat = 148, nlon = 720 | | Average File Size | Compressed: ~8.6 MB; Original: ~8.0 MB | | File Type | HDF |
Data Format Structure
The following table summarizes the contents and structure of the TRMM Level 3 Monthly 0.5° x 0.5° Convective and Stratiform Heating (CSH) product.PDF document) Further information can be found in Volume 3 of the "File Specifications for TSDIS Products - Level 2 and Level 3" | Data Format Structure for CSH, Convective and Stratiform Heating | | Name | Type | Record
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by | Range | Unit | Description | | ECS Core Metadata | Char Attribute | 10,000 | - | - | - | - | ECS Core Metadata | | PS Metadata | Char Attribute | 10,000 | - | - | - | - | Product Specific Metadata | | GridStructure | Char Attribute | 5,000 | - | - | - | - | GridStructure gives the specification of the geometry of the grids. | | LatentHeating | Float SDS | 4 | nlat*nlon*nlayer | ~ | -50deg ~ 100deg | deg h-1 | Latent heat, eddy flux and radiative heating in 0.5° x 0.5° boxes from 37°N x 37°S. | | Note: nlayer = 19, the number of levels at 0.5km, 1km, 2km, ..., 18km. |
TRMM CSH can be accessed and ordered from the Goddard DAAC's at TRMM Data Search and Order System http://mirador.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/mirador/presentNavigation.pl?tree=project&dataset=CSH:%20Monthly%200.5%20x%200.5%20degree%20Convective/Stratiform%20Heating&project=TRMM&dataGroup=Gridded&version=006
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