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    • HRIR/Nimbus-3 Images of Daytime and Nighttime Brightness Temperature on 70 mm Film V001 (HRIRN3IM) at GES DISC

    Metadata Updated: December 6, 2023

    HRIRN3IM is the Nimbus-3 High-Resolution Infrared Radiometer (HRIR) data product containing scanned negatives of photofacsimile 70mm film strips. The images contain orbital daytime (0.7 to 1.3 microns) and nighttime (3.4 to 4.2 microns) brightness temperature values showing cloud cover and the Earth's surface temperature. Each orbital swath picture is gridded with geographic coordinates and covers a distance approximately from the south pole to the north pole (day) and the north pole to the south pole (night). The images are saved as JPEG 2000 digital files. About 7 days of images are archived into a TAR file. The processing techniques used to produce the data set and a full description of the data are contained in section 3.4.1 of the "Nimbus III Users' Guide."

    The HRIR instrument was designed to perform two major functions: first to map the Earth's cloud cover at night to complement the television coverage during the daytime portion of the orbit, and second to measure the temperature of cloud tops and terrain features. The HRIR instrument was launched on the Nimbus-3 satellite and was operational from April 22, 1969 through January 31, 1970.

    This product was previously available from the NSSDC with the identifier ESAD-00223 (old ID 69-037A-02B).

    Access & Use Information

    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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    Dates

    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/GSFC/SED/ESD/GCDC/GESDISC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C1273652155-GES_DISC
    Data First Published 1969-04-15
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 1970-01-31
    Category Nimbus, geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    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 Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). HRIRN3IM. Version 001. HRIR/Nimbus-3 Images of Daytime and Nighttime Brightness Temperature on 70 mm Film V001. Greenbelt, MD, USA. Archived by National Aeronautics and Space Administration, U.S. Government, Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC). https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datacollection/HRIRN3IM_001.html. Digital Science Data.
    Creator Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
    Data Presentation Form Digital Science Data
    Graphic Preview File https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/Images/HRIRN3IM_001.png
    Harvest Object Id 7e9865eb-fc3e-4609-a7b3-6f500d3dfa21
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov:443/search/concepts/C1273652155-GES_DISC.html
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -180.0 -90.0 180.0 90.0
    Program Code 026:001
    Release Place Greenbelt, MD, USA
    Series Name HRIRN3IM
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 1e03b05ace2a5baaa7bc90d85b0af15f6431dcc0aaaa5bbac7d6c6c894a35910
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 1969-04-15T00:00:00Z/1970-01-31T23:59:59.999Z

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