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    • Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) S-4G Scanner (SC) 2.5, 5, 10 degrees Zonal and Global Regional Averages

    Metadata Updated: December 7, 2023

    ERBE_S4G_SC_ZG_1 is the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) S-4G Scanner (SC) 2.5, 5, 10 degrees Zonal and Global Regional Averages data set. It is in Hierarchical Data Format. Data collection for this data set is complete.

    ERBE was a multi-satellite system designed to measure the Earth's radiation budget. The ERBE instruments flew on a mid-inclination National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Earth Radiation Budget Satellite (ERBS) and two sun-synchronous National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellites, NOAA-9 and NOAA-10. NOAA-9 and NOAA-10 provided global coverage and the ERBS provided coverage between 67.5 degrees north and south latitude. Each satellite carried both a scanner and a non-scanner instrument package. The scanner instrument package contained three detectors to measure shortwave (0.2 to 5 microns), longwave (5 to 50 microns) and total waveband radiation (.2 to 50 microns). Each detector normally scanned the Earth perpendicular to the satellite ground-track from horizon-to-horizon. The detectors were thermistors which used space views on every scan as a reference point to guard against drift. They were located at the focal point of a f/1.84 Cassegrain telescope, whose aluminum-coated mirrors were overcoated to enhance ultraviolet reflectivity. The total channel had no filter; therefore it absorbed all wavelengths. The shortwave channel was a fused silica filter which transmitted only shortwave radiation. The longwave channel was a multilayer filter on a diamond substrate to reject shortwave energy and accept longwave. To enhance the spectral flatness of the detectors, each thermistor chip was coated with a thin layer of black paint. The effective field of view of the scanner was 3 degrees. The ERBE S-4G product contained averages of radiant flux and albedo on regional, zonal, and global scales. The data for the S-4G product were arranged by parameter values. The various combinations of the satellites reflected the actual duration of the scanners.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date December 7, 2023

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date December 7, 2023
    Publisher NASA/LARC/SD/ASDC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C1000000776-LARC_ASDC
    Data First Published 2001-05-21
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2017-01-12
    Category ERBE, geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
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    Citation 1999-06-28. Archived by National Aeronautics and Space Administration, U.S. Government, NASA/LARC/SD/ASDC. https://doi.org/10.5067/ERBE/S4G_SC_ZG_L3.
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    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.5067/ERBE/S4G_SC_ZG_L3
    Metadata Type geospatial
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    Spatial
    Temporal 1984-11-05T00:00:00Z/1990-02-28T23:59:59.999Z

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