Table of Contents 1. Ocean Products 2. File Naming convention 3. Data Format 4. Ordering Data 1.
Microwave radiation is emitted by the Earth's surface and by water droplets within clouds.
The TMI is used to measure several important meteorological parameters over sea surfaces. From the 5 channels of data provided by TMI, scientists calculate several parameters over ocean surfaces. The TMI Swath Data Product is packaged in HDF-EOS format, one file per orbit. Valid values range from 1 to 29 and are always odd. A value of 31 indicates that the sun angle is not valid.