HRIR/Nimbus-2 Images of Nighttime Brightness Temperature on 70 mm Film V001 (HRIRN2IM) at GES DISC

Description

HRIRN2IM is the Nimbus-2 High-Resolution Infrared Radiometer (HRIR) data product containing scanned negatives of photofacsimile 70mm film strips. The images contain orbital nighttime (3.5 to 4.1 microns) brightness temperature values showing cloud cover and the Earth's surface temperature. Each orbital swath picture is gridded with geographic coordinates and covers a distance approximately from the north pole to the south pole. The images are saved as JPEG 2000 digital files. About 7 days of images are archived into a TAR file. The processing techniques used to produce the data set and a full description of the data are contained in section 3.4.1 of the "Nimbus II Users' Guide. "The HRIR instrument was designed to perform two major functions: first to map the Earth's cloud cover at night to complement the television coverage during the daytime portion of the orbit, and second to measure the temperature of cloud tops and terrain features. This HRIR instrument was launched on the Nimbus-2 satellite and was operational from May 15, 1966 through November 15, 1966. This product was previously available from the NSSDC with the identifier ESAD-00226 (old ID 66-040A-03B).

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 Additional Nimbus data and images can be found at NSIDC https://nsidc.org/data/nimbus/data-sets.html
33 README Document https://acdisc.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/data/Nimbus2_HRIR_Level1/HRIRN2IM.001/doc/README.HRIRN2L1.001.pdf
21 Access the data via HTTPS. https://acdisc.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/data/Nimbus2_HRIR_Level1/HRIRN2IM.001/
21 Use the Earthdata Search to find and retrieve data sets across multiple data centers. https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=HRIRN2IM
21 Access the dataset landing page from the GES DISC website. https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datacollection/HRIRN2IM_001.html
33 Nimbus 2 Users Guide https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/repository/Mission/Nimbus/3.3_Product_Documentation/3.3.5_Product_Quality/NimbusIIUG.pdf
19 Nimbus 2 Data Catalog https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/repository/Mission/Nimbus/3.3_Product_Documentation/3.3.5_Product_Quality/DataCatalogNimbus2.tar.gz
34 HRIRN2IM_001.png https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/Images/HRIRN2IM_001.png
33 Nimbus 2 Flight Evaluation https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/repository/Mission/Nimbus/3.4_Mission_Calibration/3.4.1_Calibration_Method/NIMBUSII_FLIGHT_EVALUATION.pdf
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2F3JUPY6PAHHCP
21 Direct download via HTTPS protocol. https://n5eil01u.ecs.nsidc.org/AMSA/AE_Land.003
21 NASA's newest search and order tool for subsetting, reprojecting, and reformatting data. https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/granules?p=C1995259960-NSIDC_ECS&pg%5B0%5D%5Bgsk%5D=-start_date&q=ae_land&ac=true&tl=1603657146%214%21%21&m=-12.091511045035787%21-22.5%211%211%210%210%2C2
21 Data Access link for ITSD project https://nsidc.org/data/data-access-tool/AE_Land/versions/3/
21 Provides access to data, documentation, tools, citation information, support, and other resources. https://doi.org/10.5067/3JUPY6PAHHCP
21 Includes a user's guide, supplemental documents like ATBDs and academic papers, How Tos, FAQs, etc. https://doi.org/10.5067/3JUPY6PAHHCP
34 HRIRN2IM_001.png https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/Images/HRIRN2IM_001.png
21 Access the dataset landing page from the GES DISC website. https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datacollection/HRIRN2IM_001.html
21 Access the data via HTTPS. https://acdisc.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/data/Nimbus2_HRIR_Level1/HRIRN2IM.001/
21 Use the Earthdata Search to find and retrieve data sets across multiple data centers. https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=HRIRN2IM
33 README Document https://acdisc.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/data/Nimbus2_HRIR_Level1/HRIRN2IM.001/doc/README.HRIRN2L1.001.pdf
33 Nimbus 2 Users Guide https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/repository/Mission/Nimbus/3.3_Product_Documentation/3.3.5_Product_Quality/NimbusIIUG.pdf
33 Nimbus 2 Flight Evaluation https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/repository/Mission/Nimbus/3.4_Mission_Calibration/3.4.1_Calibration_Method/NIMBUSII_FLIGHT_EVALUATION.pdf
19 Nimbus 2 Data Catalog https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/repository/Mission/Nimbus/3.3_Product_Documentation/3.3.5_Product_Quality/DataCatalogNimbus2.tar.gz
21 Additional Nimbus data and images can be found at NSIDC https://nsidc.org/data/nimbus/data-sets.html

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  • infrared-wavelengths
  • spectral-engineering
  • earth-science

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