Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) S-7 Monthly Medium-Wide Data Tape

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ERBE_S7_NAT_1 is the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) S-7 Monthly Medium-Wide Data Tape (MWDT) data set, which is in Native (NAT) format. The MWDT (S-7) product contains a condensed version of the non-scanner data that were found on a monthly set of Processed Archival Tapes (PAT), except that the shortwave estimates of the radiant exitance at the top-of-atmosphere (TOA) were based on the mostly cloudy over ocean bidirectional model. The MWDT product then provided a consistent data set of non-scanner TOA estimates which were not dependent on the operational status of the ERBE scanner instrument. ERBE was a multi-satellite system designed to measure the Earth's radiation budget. 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 S-8 contained all satellite and viewing geometry, and all scanner and non-scanner radiometric measurements in engineering units with flags defining their validity. It also contained quantities such as scanner measurements corrected to flat spectral responses, the scene identified for each scanner pixel, the estimate of radiant flux at the top-of-the-atmosphere (TOA) for each scanner pixel, and the estimates of the radiant fluxes from the non-scanner measurements. The data were for a 24-hour period and one satellite. If all three satellites were operational on the same day, three separate S-8s were required for a full set of ERBE data. The data period started at Greenwich midnight (zero Universal Time) and continued for 24 hours and the period was divided into 16-second intervals.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
33 ERBE for Monthly Medium-Wide Data Tape (MWDT) (S-7) Langley ASDC Data Set Document https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/erbe/guide/erbe_s7.pdf
21 Readme for ERBE_S7_NAT Data https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/erbe/readme/readme_erbe_s7_nat.txt
21 ASDC Data and Information for ERBE https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/project/ERBE
21 NASA Earth Observatory Article: NASA Earth Observatory Article https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/QuestionConvection
21 NASA Earth Observatory Article: Clouds in the Balance https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/CloudsInBalance
21 ASDC Direct Data Download for ERBE_S7_NAT_1 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/data/ERBE/S7/NAT_1/
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FERBE%2FS7_NAT_L2
21 DOI data set landing page for ERBE_S7_NAT_1 https://doi.org/10.5067/ERBE/S7_NAT_L2
21 How to cite ASDC data https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/citing-data
21 Earthdata Search for ERBE_S7_NAT_1 (NASA Application to search, discover, visualize, refine, and access NASA Earth Observation data) https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/granules?p=C1000000745-LARC_ASDC
21 ASDC Data and Information for GEWEX-RFA https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/project/GEWEX-RFA
21 Readme to open and read ERBE s7 data files https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/erbe/read_software/read_erbe_s7.pro
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 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
57 Read Software Package - ERBE_S8_Read_Software - Direct File Download (.zip) https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/erbe/read_software/erbe_s7_nat_read_software.zip
33 ERBE Langley ASDC Project Document https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/erbe/guide/erbe_project.pdf
33 ERBE Overview Document https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/erbe/readme/erbe_overview.pdf
33 Overview of view hdf: A Visualization and Analysis Tool for HDF Files https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/tools/view_hdf.pdf

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  • atmospheric-radiation
  • atmosphere
  • earth-science

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