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GCOM-C/SGLI L2 Statistics-Snow grain size of shallow layer (8-days, 1km) is obtained from the SGLI sensor onboard GCOM-C and produced by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). GCOM-C is Sun-synchronous sub-recurrent Orbit satellite launched on December 23, 2017, which mounts SGLI and conducts long-term global observations of geophysical variables related to the global climate system across 28 items including aerosol and vegetation over 4 areas of atmosphere, land, ocean, and cryosphere. The data will be used to contribute to higher accuracy of global warming prediction. The SGLI has swath of 1150 km in the visible band and 1400 km in the infrared band. This dataset includes Snow grain size of shallow layer. To estimate the snow grain size from the radiance, their relationship is learned as a nonlinear function using the neural network training, and the snow grain size of shallow layer is estimated based on the observed radiance by nonlinear optimal estimation method. The statistics values stored to product are average (AVE), root-mean-square (RMS), maximum value (MAX), minimum value (MIN), number of input data (Ninput), number of used data (Nused), date of observation (Date), and quality flag (QA_flag).The provided format is HDF5. The spatial resolution is 1 km. The statistical period is 8 days also 1 month statistics is available. The projection method is EQA. The generation unit is Tile. The current version of the product is Version 3. The Version 2 is also available.
JP/JAXA/SAOC
GCOM-C/SGLI L2 Statistics-Snow gain size of shallow layer (8-Days,1km) 2021