TROPICS06 L2B Atmospheric Vertical Temperature and Moisture Profiles (AVTP, AVMP) V1.0

The "Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats" (TROPICS) mission has a goal of providing nearly all-weather observations of three-dimensional temperature and humidity, as well as cloud ice and precipitation horizontal structure, at high temporal resolution to conduct high-value science investigations of tropical cyclones. The mission comprises a constellation of five identical Space Vehicles (SVs) conforming to the 3U form factor and hosting a passive microwave spectrometer payload.

Each SV hosts an identical high-performance spectrometer named the TROPICS Millimeter-wave Sounder (TMS) that will provide temperature profiles using seven channels near the 118.75-GHz oxygen absorption line, water vapor profiles using three channels near the 183-GHz water vapor absorption line, imagery in a single channel near 90 GHz for precipitation measurements (when combined with higher resolution water vapor channels), and a single channel near 205 GHz that is more sensitive to cloud-sized ice particles.

This dataset is from the TROPICS06 satellite, as the Validated Stage-1 release of the Level 2B geophysical retrieval of atmospheric vertical temperature (kelvins) at the larger unified F-band resolution, retrieval of vertical moisture (g/kg) at the finer G-band spatial resolution, and total Precipitable Water (mm) at the finer G-band spatial resolution. Each TROPICS netCDF file contains a granule of data with 81 spots and approximately 2880 scans, where a granule is defined as an orbit's worth of data.

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Maintainer Kristan Morgan
Last Updated July 14, 2025, 20:47 (UTC)
Created March 31, 2025, 16:38 (UTC)
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citation William J. Blackwell, MIT Lincoln Laboratory. 2024-11-19. TROPICS06MIRSL2B. Version 1.0. TROPICS06 L2B Atmospheric Vertical Temperature and Moisture Profiles (AVTP, AVMP) V1.0. Greenbelt, MD. Archived by National Aeronautics and Space Administration, U.S. Government, Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC). https://doi.org/10.5067/M2UTE1IQUQZG. https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datacollection/TROPICS06MIRSL2B_1.0.html. Digital Science Data.
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