AMSU-A > Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A

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        title:  NOAA KLM User's Guide, Section 3.3, Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A (AMSU-A)
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            date:  2000-09
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        edition:  Revision
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            code:  gov.noaa.ngdc.fgdccitation:27040
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            individualName:  Goodrum, Geoffrey (ed.)
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            individualName:  Kidwell, Katherine B. (ed.)
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            individualName:  Winston, Wayne (ed.)
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            individualName:  DOC/NOAA/NESDIS > National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service
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    citation:  (CI_Citation)
        title:  ATOVS Level 1b Products Guide, AMSU-A
        date:  (CI_Date)
            date:  2004-09-08
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        edition:  issue 1.0
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            code:  gov.noaa.ngdc.fgdccitation:30494
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            organisationName:  EUMETSAT > European Meteorological Satellite Organisation
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                    voice:  +49(0)6151-807 7
                    facsimile:  +49(0)6151-807 555
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                    deliveryPoint:  EUMETSAT Eumetsat Allee 1
                    city:  Darmstadt
                    administrativeArea:  N/A
                    postalCode:  D-64295
                    country:  Germany
                contactInstructions:  For information, go to: http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/AboutEUMETSAT/Contact_Us/index.htm?l=en
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        code:  AMSU-A > Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A
    type:  sounder and profiler
    description:  Instrument Type: sounder and profiler, Operational Mode: cross-track, Collection Type: stepped-line scanning, Other Information: AMSU-A is a 15-channel cross-track, stepped-line scanning, total power microwave radiometer. The instrument has an instantaneous field-of-view of 3.3 degrees at the half-power points providing a nominal spatial resolution at nadir of 48 km (29.8 mi). The antenna provides a cross-track scan, scanning +48.3 degrees (-48.3 degrees) from nadir with a total of 30 Earth fields-of-view per scan line. This instrument completes one scan every 8 seconds.