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    • LRIR/Nimbus-6 Level 2 Inverted Profiles of Temperature and Ozone V001 (LRIRN6L2IPAT) at GES DISC

    Metadata Updated: April 11, 2025

    LRIRN6L2IPAT is the Nimbus-6 Limb Radiance Inversion Radiometer (LRIR) Level 2 Inverted Profiles of Temperature and Ozone data product. The product contains daily profiles of temperature and ozone concentration profiles that were inverted from radiances measured in four spectral regions: two in the 15 micron carbon dioxide band; one in the 9.7 micron ozone band; and one located in the rotational water vapor band (23 to 27 microns). The calibrated radiances are also included in this product. There are a maximum of 13 orbits per day each with up to 115 profiles per orbit.

    LRIR is a limb profiler with spatial coverage from latitude -64 to +84 degrees. Vertical profiles are provided at 17 standard pressure levels (from 100 to 0.1 mbar, i.e., from 15 to 64 km) with about 1.5 km vertical resolution. The instrument operated successfully and data are available from 20 June 1975 to 6 January 1976. After this, the detector temperature began to rise rapidly, and the instrument was turned off. The principal investigator for the LRIR experiment was Dr. John Gille from NCAR.

    This product was previously available from the NSSDC with the identifier ESAD-00037 (old ID 75-052A-04A).

    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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    References

    https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0469(1971)028<1427:OTIOLR>2.0.CO;2
    https://doi.org/10.1126/science.208.4442.397

    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date April 11, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

    Other Data Resources

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date April 11, 2025
    Publisher NASA/GSFC/SED/ESD/GCDC/GESDISC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C1513197201-GES_DISC
    Data First Published 1992-06-30
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2025-04-01
    Category Nimbus, geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id 6293a89c-95e9-48e0-96b2-2c2046164106
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov:443/search/concepts/C1513197201-GES_DISC.html
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -180.0 -64.0 180.0 84.0
    Program Code 026:001
    Related Documents https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0469(1971)028<1427:OTIOLR>2.0.CO;2, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.208.4442.397
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 5b23dc42fdcd4d4cddec8b56401956eb4b8daf82566c8a4ce9f06d4181566efa
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 1975-06-20T00:00:00Z/1976-01-06T23:59:59.999Z

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