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ERBE: ERBE instrument measurements on aboard the Earth Radiation Budget Satellite (ERBS)
This dataset consists of data from the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) instrument on the NASA Earth Radiation Budget Satellite (ERBS), launched from the Space Shuttle Challenger in October 1984 (STS-41G). ERBS was placed into an orbit at 603-km altitude, 57-deg. inclination.
The ERBE instrument's main aim was to provide accurate measurements of incoming solar energy and shortwave and longwave radiation reflected or emitted from the Earth back into space.
This dataset contains colour images (shortwave/longwave/net radiation, albedo, clear-sky albedo, clear-sky shortwave/longwave/net radiation, and shortwave/longwave/net cloud forcing) from the ERBE instrument, a scanning radiometer on ERBS.
Monthly average values are included for the time periods during which the scanners were operational.
This dataset is public, though NASA noted that this is intended for research purposes and the data has no commercial value.
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Identification info
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 1990-12-10T16:32:00
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 1990-12-10T16:32:00
- Identifier
- NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 0a65d66a1fcc93d9bedbe3eec0ff3e5a
- Maintenance and update frequency
- notPlanned
- Update scope
- dataset
- Keywords
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- ATMOSPHERICRADIATION
- ATMOSPHERE
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()
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- atmospheric conditions
- Limitations on Public Access
- otherRestrictions
- Other constraints
- Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
- Use constraints
- otherRestrictions
- Spatial representation type
- grid
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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- Begin date
- 1984-11-01T00:00:00
- End date
- 1990-02-28T00:00:00
- Code
- WGS 84
Distribution Information
- Data format
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Data are GIF formatted
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Data are GIF formatted
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- Resource Locator
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
Detail and access information for the resource
- Resource Locator
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DOWNLOAD
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- Resource Locator
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
Detail and access information for the resource
- Resource Locator
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DOWNLOAD
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- Quality Scope
- dataset
Report
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- Data collected by NASA using the Earth Radiation Budget Satellite (ERBS), processed and prepared by NASA. A copy of the data were then obtained by the BADC to be made available through the BADC archive.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 0a65d66a1fcc93d9bedbe3eec0ff3e5a XML
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Character set
- 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646
- Parent identifier
- Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) Radiation Data and Colour Images 1ef9f265346e2e211c6c0a7dc22b270e
- Resource type
- dataset
- Metadata Date
- 2022-10-07T00:07:27
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
