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    • SIRS/Nimbus-3 Level 1 Radiance Data V001 (SIRSN3L1) at GES DISC

    Metadata Updated: April 10, 2025

    SIRSN3L1 is the Nimbus-3 Satellite Infrared Spectrometer (SIRS) Level 1 Radiance Data product. SIRS measured infrared radiation (11 to 36 micrometers) emitted from the earth and its atmosphere in 13 selected spectral intervals in the carbon dioxide and water vapor bands plus one channel in the 11-micrometer atmospheric window. The radiances were used to determine the vertical temperature and water vapor profiles of the atmosphere. The data were recovered from the original 6250 tapes, and are now stored online as daily files in their original proprietary binary format each with about 14 orbits per day.

    The Nimbus-3 SIRS only viewed the nadir of the subsatellite track. Spatial coverage is near global from about latitude -80 to +80 degrees. The data are available from 08 April 1970 (day of year 98) to 08 April 1971. The principal investigator for the SIRS experiment was Dr. David Q. Wark from the NOAA National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service.

    This product was previously available from the NSSDC with the identifier ESAD-00130 (old ID 70-025A-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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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date April 10, 2025

    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 April 10, 2025
    Publisher NASA/GSFC/SED/ESD/GCDC/GESDISC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C1622768257-GES_DISC
    Data First Published 2013-04-29
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2025-03-31
    Category Nimbus, geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    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 92d27a74-82c4-47b9-86b3-ca9952819d49
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov:443/search/concepts/C1622768257-GES_DISC.html
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -180.0 -80.15 180.0 80.15
    Program Code 026:001
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash bc5daaf2d28319db2b575ea758663332c84607e65f9a6a1eadb1d468e334581c
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 1969-04-14T00:00:00Z/1970-06-19T23:59:59.999Z

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