Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) S-4G Scanner (SC) 5 degree nested to 10 degree Regional Averages

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ERBE_S4G_SC_NEST10_1 is the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) S-4G Scanner (SC) 5 degree nested to 10 degree Regional Averages data set, which in in Hierarchical Data Format. Data collection for this data set is complete. 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. NOAA-9 and NOAA-10 provided global coverage and the ERBS provided coverage between 67.5 degrees north and south latitude. Each satellite carried both a scanner and a non-scanner instrument package. The scanner instrument package contained three detectors to measure shortwave (0.2 to 5 microns), longwave (5 to 50 microns) and total waveband radiation (.2 to 50 microns). Each detector normally scanned the Earth perpendicular to the satellite ground-track from horizon-to-horizon. The detectors were thermistors which used space views on every scan as a reference point to guard against drift. They were located at the focal point of a f/1.84 Cassegrain telescope, whose aluminum-coated mirrors were overcoated to enhance ultraviolet reflectivity. The total channel had no filter; therefore it absorbed all wavelengths. The shortwave channel was a fused silica filter which transmitted only shortwave radiation. The longwave channel was a multilayer filter on a diamond substrate to reject shortwave energy and accept longwave. To enhance the spectral flatness of the detectors, each thermistor chip was coated with a thin layer of black paint. The effective field of view of the scanner was 3 degrees. The ERBE S-4G product contained averages of radiant flux and albedo on regional, zonal, and global scales. The data for the S-4G product were arranged by parameter values. The various combinations of the satellites reflected the actual duration of the scanners.

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5 https://doi.org%2F10.5067%2FERBE%2FS4G_SC_NEST10_L3
5 https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov%2Fsearch%2Fgranules%3Fp%3DC1000000774-LARC_ASDC
5 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov%2Fdocuments%2Ferbe%2Fread_software%2Fgbytes.c
5 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov%2Fdocuments%2Ferbe%2Fguide%2Ferbe_s4g.pdf
5 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov%2Fciting-data
5 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov%2Fdocuments%2Ferbe%2Freadme%2Freadme_erbe_s4g_sc_2.5_daacnotice.txt
5 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov%2Fdocuments%2Ferbe%2Freadme%2Freadme_erbe_s4g_sc_2.5.txt
5 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov%2Fdocuments%2Ferbe%2Fread_software%2Frds4gscnhdf.c
5 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov%2Fdocuments%2Ferbe%2Fread_software%2Frds4gscnhdf.f
5 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov%2Fproject%2FERBE
5 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov%2Fproject%2FGEWEX-RFA
5 https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov%2Ffeatures%2FQuestionConvection
5 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov%2Fdocuments%2Ferbe%2Freadme%2Ferbe_overview.pdf
5 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov%2Fdocuments%2Ftools%2Fview_hdf.pdf
5 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov%2Fdocuments%2Ferbe%2Fread_software%2Fio.c
5 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov%2Fdocuments%2Ferbe%2Fguide%2Ferbe_project.pdf
5 https://earthdata.nasa.gov%2Flearn%2Fsensing-our-planet%2Fabsorption-of-solar-radiation-by-clouds-observations-versus-models
5 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov%2Fdata%2FERBE%2FS4G%2FSC_NEST10_1%2F
5 https://earthdata.nasa.gov%2Flearn%2Fsensing-our-planet%2Fa-burning-question
21 https://doi.org/10.5067/ERBE/S4G_SC_NEST10_L3
5 https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/granules?p=C1000000774-LARC_ASDC
5 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/erbe/read_software/gbytes.c
5 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/erbe/read_software/io.c
33 erbe_project.pdf https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/erbe/guide/erbe_project.pdf
5 readme_erbe_s4g_sc_2.5.txt https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/erbe/readme/readme_erbe_s4g_sc_2.5.txt
5 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/erbe/read_software/rds4gscnhdf.f
5 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/data/ERBE/S4G/SC_NEST10_1/
47 readme_erbe_s4g_sc_2.5_daacnotice.txt https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/erbe/readme/readme_erbe_s4g_sc_2.5_daacnotice.txt
5 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/erbe/read_software/rds4gscnhdf.c
21 https://doi.org/10.5067/ERBE/S4G_SC_NEST10_L3
33 erbe_s4g.pdf https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/erbe/guide/erbe_s4g.pdf
5 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/citing-data
47 readme_erbe_s4g_sc_2.5.txt https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/erbe/readme/readme_erbe_s4g_sc_2.5.txt
5 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/erbe/read_software/rds4gscnhdf.c
5 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/erbe/read_software/rds4gscnhdf.f
5 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/project/ERBE
5 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/project/GEWEX-RFA
5 https://earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/sensing-our-planet/a-burning-question
5 https://earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/sensing-our-planet/absorption-of-solar-radiation-by-clouds-observations-versus-models
5 https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/QuestionConvection
33 erbe_overview.pdf https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/erbe/readme/erbe_overview.pdf
33 view_hdf.pdf https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/tools/view_hdf.pdf
5 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/data/ERBE/S4G/SC_NEST10_1/
5 https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/granules?p=C1000000774-LARC_ASDC
0 The metadata's original source. https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C1000000774-LARC_ASDC.iso19115

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  • earth-science-atmospheric-radiation-atmosphere-radiative-flux
  • earth-science-atmospheric-radiation-atmosphere-albedo

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