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Microwave Integrated Retrieval System (MIRS) Level-3 Mapped Precipitation and Surface Products

The Microwave Integrated Retrieval System (MIRS) provides an end-to-end capability of calibrating and characterizing the radiances measured from satellite-based microwave instruments using state of the art algorithm science. The MIRS produces advanced near-real-time operational surface and precipitation products in all-weather and over all-surface conditions using brightness temperatures from multiple microwave instruments. The MIRS Global Level-3 (L3) daily precipitation and surface map provides Total Precipitable Water, Snow Water Equivalent, Cloud Liquid Water, Rainfall Rate, Snow Fall Rate, and Sea Ice Concentration maps. The MIRS L3 map is a composite product generated from the MIRS Level 2 (L2) precipitation observations and is provided in polar stereographic and cylindrical stereographic projections. The data are produced by the NOAA Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) and are distributed by the Comprehensive Large Array-Data Stewardship System (CLASS) as daily gridded files in the netCDF-4 file format with attributes included.

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Description The Microwave Integrated Retrieval System (MIRS) provides an end-to-end capability of calibrating and characterizing the radiances measured from satellite-based microwave instruments using state of the art algorithm science. The MIRS produces advanced near-real-time operational surface and precipitation products in all-weather and over all-surface conditions using brightness temperatures from multiple microwave instruments. The MIRS Global Level-3 (L3) daily precipitation and surface map provides Total Precipitable Water, Snow Water Equivalent, Cloud Liquid Water, Rainfall Rate, Snow Fall Rate, and Sea Ice Concentration maps. The MIRS L3 map is a composite product generated from the MIRS Level 2 (L2) precipitation observations and is provided in polar stereographic and cylindrical stereographic projections. The data are produced by the NOAA Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) and are distributed by the Comprehensive Large Array-Data Stewardship System (CLASS) as daily gridded files in the netCDF-4 file format with attributes included.
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