Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) S-9 Scanner Radiant Flux

Description

ERBE_S9_NAT is the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) S-9 Scanner Radiant Flux data set. It contains inverted daily, monthly hourly, and monthly averages of shortwave (SWF) and longwave (LWF) radiant fluxes at the top-of-atmosphere (TOA) for ERBE scanner data in native format for one month. 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) satellite 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 scanner instrument package contained three detectors to measure shortwave, longwave, and total waveband radiation. Each detector 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. The total channel had no filter, so it absorbed all wavelength. The shortwave channel had a fused silica filter which transmitted only shortwave radiation. The longwave channel had a multilayer filter on a diamond substrate to reject shortwave energy and accept longwave. The S-9 contained inverted daily, monthly hourly, and monthly averages of shortwave and longwave radiant fluxes at the top-of-the atmosphere which were averaged into 2.5 degree regions. A S-9 data set was produced for each satellite (ERBS, NOAA-9, and NOOA-10) and the combination of satellites which were operational during the data month. The data set contained 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 types of records for each processed region. The first record was of fixed length (1860 words) and contained averaged data. The second record was of variable length containing individual hour box estimates. The length of the second record, in words, was calculated by multiplying the number of hour boxes (1846th word of record one) by the number of values passed by hour box which is 32 for the scanner.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
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
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FERBE%2FS9_NAT_L3
21 DOI data set landing page for ERBE_S9_NAT_1 https://doi.org/10.5067/ERBE/S9_NAT_L3
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
21 Readme to work with FORTRAN - Direct File Download (.c) https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/erbe/read_software/io.c
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 How to cite ASDC data https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/citing-data
21 Readme to read either ERBE S-9, S-10, or S-10N data https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/erbe/readme/readme_erbe_s9_nat.txt
21 ASDC Data and Information for ERBE https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/project/ERBE
21 ASDC Data and Information for GEWEX-RFA https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/project/GEWEX-RFA
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 NASA Earth Observatory Article: NASA Earth Observatory Article https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/QuestionConvection
21 NASA Earthdata Forum - ERBE Project Specific Forum https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/ERBE
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
21 NASA Earth Observatory Article: Clouds in the Balance https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/CloudsInBalance
21 ASDC Direct Data Download for ERBE_S9_NAT_1 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/data/ERBE/S9/NAT_1/
21 ERBE tape region directory https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/erbe/read_software/s9tape_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 Earthdata Search for ERBE_S9_NAT_1 (NASA Application to search, discover, visualize, refine, and access NASA Earth Observation data) https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/granules?p=C1000000769-LARC_ASDC

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  • atmospheric-radiation
  • atmosphere
  • earth-science

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