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    • SORCE Level 3 Total Solar Irradiance 6-Hour Means V019 (SOR3TSI6) at GES DISC

    Metadata Updated: December 6, 2023

    SOR3TSI6 Version 019 is the final version of this data product, and supersedes all previous versions.

    The Total Solar Irradiance (TSI) data set SOR3TSI6 contains the total solar irradiance (a.k.a solar constant) data collected by the Total Irradiance Monitor (TIM) instrument covering the full wavelength spectrum averaged at 6-hour intervals. The data are normalized to one astronomical unit (1 AU).

    The TIM instrument measures the Total Solar Irradiance (TSI), monitoring changes in incident sunlight to the Earth's atmosphere using an ambient temperature active cavity radiometer to a designed absolute accuracy of 100 parts per million (ppm, 1 ppm=0.0001% at 1-sigma) and a precision and long-term relative accuracy of 10 ppm per year. Due to the small size these data and to maximize ease of use to end-users, each delivered TSI product contains science results for the entire mission. Updates to Level 3 TSI data occur monthly in order to reduce repeated delivery of data.

    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 December 1, 2022
    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 December 1, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date December 6, 2023
    Publisher NASA/GSFC/SED/ESD/GCDC/GESDISC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C1975355700-GES_DISC
    Data First Published 2020-12-02
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2020-12-02
    Category SORCE, 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 Kopp, G.. 2020-12-07. SOR3TSI6. Version 019. SORCE Level 3 Total Solar Irradiance 6-Hour Means V019. Greenbelt, MD, USA. Archived by National Aeronautics and Space Administration, U.S. Government, Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC). https://doi.org/10.5067/T6IX3V0XGBAN. https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datacollection/SOR3TSI6_019.html. Digital Science Data.
    Creator Kopp, G.
    Data Presentation Form Digital Science Data
    Graphic Preview File https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/Images/SOR3TSI6_019.png
    Harvest Object Id cf41dd65-6ad4-478e-a09a-03d03831918a
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.5067/T6IX3V0XGBAN
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Program Code 026:001
    Release Place Greenbelt, MD, USA
    Series Name SOR3TSI6
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 4bc072b470a43051c3f41fc59fe334b1625f054f362fd845ce0741a24a91f8c1
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Temporal 2003-02-25T00:00:00Z/2020-02-25T23:59:59.999Z

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