SAFARI 2000 TOVS Surface and Atmospheric Parameters, 1-Deg, 1999-2001

Description

NOAA's TIROS (Television Infrared Observation Satellite) Operational Vertical Sounder (TOVS) is a suite of three sensors: the Microwave Sounding Unit (MSU), the High resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder (HIRS), and the Stratospheric Sounding Unit (SSU) aboard the NOAA series of polar-orbiting operational meteorological satellites. TOVS-derived data provide a means to investigate long-term climate change and interannual variability and study local and periodic phenomena such as El Nino and stratospheric warmings. A set of the derived meteorological parameters for southern Africa have been selected by SAFARI 2000.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.3334%2FORNLDAAC%2F717
21 This link allows direct data access via Earthdata login https://daac.ornl.gov/daacdata/safari2k/remote_sensing/TOVS/
21 ORNL DAAC Data Set Documentation https://daac.ornl.gov/S2K/guides/s2k_tovs_subset.html
21 Data set Landing Page DOI URL https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/717
33 Data Set Documentation https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/safari2k/remote_sensing/TOVS/comp/tovs_pentad_atmosphere_doc.pdf
34 Browse Image https://daac.ornl.gov/graphics/browse/project/square/safari_logo_square.png

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  • atmospheric-radiation
  • precipitation
  • atmospheric-water-vapor
  • atmosphere
  • atmospheric-temperature
  • clouds
  • earth-science

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