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    • Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) S-7 Monthly Medium-Wide Data Tape

    Metadata Updated: December 6, 2023

    ERBE_S7_NAT_1 is the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) S-7 Monthly Medium-Wide Data Tape (MWDT) data set, which is in Native (NAT) format. The MWDT (S-7) product contains a condensed version of the non-scanner data that were found on a monthly set of Processed Archival Tapes (PAT), except that the shortwave estimates of the radiant exitance at the top-of-atmosphere (TOA) were based on the mostly cloudy over ocean bidirectional model. The MWDT product then provided a consistent data set of non-scanner TOA estimates which were not dependent on the operational status of the ERBE scanner instrument.

    ERBE was a multi-satellite system designed to measure the Earth's radiation budget. 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). Each satellite carried both a scanner and a non-scanner instrument package. The S-8 contained all satellite and viewing geometry, and all scanner and non-scanner radiometric measurements in engineering units with flags defining their validity. It also contained quantities such as scanner measurements corrected to flat spectral responses, the scene identified for each scanner pixel, the estimate of radiant flux at the top-of-the-atmosphere (TOA) for each scanner pixel, and the estimates of the radiant fluxes from the non-scanner measurements. The data were for a 24-hour period and one satellite. If all three satellites were operational on the same day, three separate S-8s were required for a full set of ERBE data. The data period started at Greenwich midnight (zero Universal Time) and continued for 24 hours and the period was divided into 16-second intervals.

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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 6, 2023

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date December 6, 2023
    Publisher NASA/LARC/SD/ASDC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C1000000745-LARC_ASDC
    Data First Published 1999-06-29
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2017-01-12
    Category ERBE, geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
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    Metadata Catalog ID https://data.nasa.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Citation 1999-07-21. Archived by National Aeronautics and Space Administration, U.S. Government, NASA/LARC/SD/ASDC. https://doi.org/10.5067/ERBE/S7_NAT_L2.
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    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.5067/ERBE/S7_NAT_L2
    Metadata Type geospatial
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    Program Code 026:001
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    Source Hash 375dfbf109951d02d41fd63596b2e4dbf14ae2efc70cdae4e2e06b15bd262f8f
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    Spatial
    Temporal 1984-11-05T00:00:00Z/1999-09-30T23:59:59.999Z

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