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The SMOS Near real Time (NRT) product is avaiable available from ESA in BUFR format. The NRT SMOS BUFR files contain a large volume of data, at all incidence angles ranging from 0 to about 60 degrees. The SMOS NRT BUFR data is currently used for the SMOS data monitoring.
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The two brightness temperature output 0.25x0.25 GRIB files are each 0.208 Mb. The entire output (ten files) is 2Mb:
smosbufr_Faxx_0.25_angle30.grib: Faraday angle for XX polarised data
smosbufr_Fayy_0.25_angle30.grib: Faraday angle for YY polarised data
smosbufr_flagfov5_xx_0.25_angle30.grib: SMOS information flag, bit5 (AFOV), for XX polarised data
smosbufr_flagfov5_yy_0.25_angle30.grib: SMOS inforamtion information flag, bit5 (AFOV), for YY polarised data
smosbufr_snpaxx_0.25_angle30.grib: Snapshot accuracy for XX polarised data
smosbufr_snpayy_0.25_angle30.grib: Snapshot accuracy for YY polarised data
smosbufr_snpqxx_0.25_angle30.grib: Snapshot quality for XX polarised data
smosbufr_snpqyy_0.25_angle30.grib: Snapshot quality for YY polarised data
smosbufr_tbxx_0.25_angle30.grib: Brightness Temperature for XX polarised data
smosbufr_tbyy_0.25_angle30.grib: Brightness Temperature for YY polarised data
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