Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) S-10 Medium Field of View (MFOV) Shape Factor (SF) Radiant Flux and Albedo

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ERBE_S10_MFOV_SF_NAT_1 is the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) S-10 Medium Field of View (MFOV) Shape Factor (SF) Radiant Flux and Albedo data product. Data collection for this product is complete. It is available in the Native (NAT) Format. ERBE was a multi-satellite system designed to measure the Earth's radiation budget. The ERBE instruments flew on a mid-inclination National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Earth Radiation Budget Satellite (ERBS) and two sun-synchronous National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellites (NOAA-9 and NOAA-10). Each satellite carried both a scanner and a non-scanner instrument package. The non-scanner instrument package contained four Earth-viewing channels and a solar monitor. The Earth-viewing channels had two spatial resolutions: a horizon-to-horizon view of the Earth, and a field-of-view limited to about 1000 km in diameter. The former was called the wide field-of-view (WFOV) and the latter MFOV channels. The solar monitor was a direct descendant of the Solar Maximum Mission's Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor detector. Due to the concern for spectral flatness and high accuracy, all five of the channels were active cavity radiometers. The MFOV (medium-field-of-view) SF (shape factor) S-10 contained inverted daily, monthly hourly, and monthly averages of shortwave and long-wave radiant fluxes at the top-of-the-atmosphere for one month. This data set was produced for each of the satellites (ERBS and NOAA-9) and the combination of satellites, which were operational during the data month. The values for this data set were derived using the shape factor technique (Smith et al. 1986). As described in the Earth Radiant Fluxes and Albedo, Scanner S-9, Non-scanner S-10/S-10N User's Guide, the data contains a 30 byte header, 67 scale factors which were used to scale the data in the first record, and 26 scale factors which were used to scale the data in the second record. The data set also contained two records for each processed region. The first record was of fixed length (990 words) and contained averaged data. The second record was of variable length and contained individual hour box estimates. The length of the second record, in words, was calculated by multiplying the number of hour boxes (978th word of record one) by the number of values stored for each hour box (38 for the non-scanner).

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 ASDC Data and Information for ERBE https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/project/ERBE
21 DOI data set landing page for ERBE_S10_MFOV_SF_NAT_1 https://doi.org/10.5067/ERBE/S10_MFOV_SF_NAT_L3
21 Readme to work with FORTRAN - Direct File Download (.c) https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/erbe/read_software/io.c
21 How to cite ASDC data https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/citing-data
21 ERBE S-10 Readme https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/erbe/readme/readme_erbe_s10_wfov_nf_nat.txt
21 ERBE tape region directory https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/erbe/read_software/s10tape_regions.txt
57 Read Software Package - ERBE_S9-10_Read_Software - Direct File Download (.zip) https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/erbe/read_software/s9-10_readsoftware.zip
21 NASA Earth Observatory Article: NASA Earth Observatory Article https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/QuestionConvection
33 ERBE Overview Document https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/erbe/readme/erbe_overview.pdf
21 ASDC Data and Information for GEWEX-RFA https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/project/GEWEX-RFA
21 ASDC Direct Data Download for ERBE_S10_MFOV_SF_NAT_1 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/data/ERBE/S10/MFOV_SF_NAT_1/
21 Earth Observing System Data and InformationSystem (EOSDIS) Article: "A Burning Question" By Annette Varani https://earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/sensing-our-planet/a-burning-question
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FERBE%2FS10_MFOV_SF_NAT_L3
33 ERBE Langley ASDC Project Document https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/erbe/guide/erbe_project.pdf
21 Earthdata Search for ERBE_S10_MFOV_SF_NAT_1 (NASA Application to search, discover, visualize, refine, and access NASA Earth Observation data) https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/granules?p=C1000000761-LARC_ASDC
21 Earth Observing System Data and InformationSystem (EOSDIS) Article: "Absorption of Solar Radiation by Clouds: Observations versus Models" https://earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/sensing-our-planet/absorption-of-solar-radiation-by-clouds-observations-versus-models
33 Overview of view hdf: A Visualization and Analysis Tool for HDF Files https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/tools/view_hdf.pdf
33 ERBE Earth Radiant Fluxes and Albedo for Month (Scanner) (S-9)/Earth Radiant Fluxes and Albedo for Month (Nonscanner) (S-10) Langley ASDC Data Set Document https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/erbe/guide/erbe_s9_s10.pdf
21 NASA Earth Observatory Article: Clouds in the Balance https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/CloudsInBalance
21 Tools for storage/retrieval of arbitrary size bytes from 32 bit words - Direct File Download (.c) https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/erbe/read_software/gbytes.c

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  • atmospheric-radiation
  • atmosphere
  • earth-science

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