SSM/I Monthly Mean Water Vapor Version 5 (Remote Sensing Systems)

SOURCE: http://www.ssmi.com

FORMAT: netCDF

GRID: Global - .25 degree grid (1440 x 720)

LEVELS: Single Level

FIELDS: Description     	                Name    Units   
        ------------------------------------------------------
	Water Vapor		        	wv	mm

TIMES:  One mean per month.

MSS Directory: /CTSAT/SSMI/V5/

Filenames: 
     ssmi_f08_v5_wv.nc    satellite f08        July 1987 - December 1991
     ssmi_f10_v5_wv.nc    satellite f10        December 1990 - November 1997
     ssmi_f11_v5_wv.nc    satellite f11        December 1991 - May 2000
     ssmi_f13_v5_wv.nc    satellite f13        May 1995 - January 2004
     ssmi_f14_v5_wv.nc    satellite f14        May 1997 - January 2004
     ssmi_f15_v5_wv.nc    satellite f15        December 1999 - January 2004    
    
Current holdings: July 1987 - January 2004

Conventions:
	missing_value = _FillValue = -999.
        0 to 250 = valid geophysical means
        251 = *not used in climatology maps*
        252 = sea ice (locations where >0% ice at any time during averaged period)
        253 = *not used in climatology maps*
        254 = too few SSM/I observations within month to average the data (<50 hits)
       255 = land

Acknowledgements:
Remote Sensing Systems requests the following acknowledgement:
"SSM/I data and images are produced by Remote Sensing Systems and sponsored by the NASA Pathfinder Program for early Earth Observing System (EOS) products."

Other Related Datasets:

• Monthly Mean Precipitable Water (Greenwald and Stephens)
• Monthly Mean Precipitable Water (Wentz)

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