SAMS/Nimbus-7 Level 3 Zonal Means Composition Data V001 (SAMSN7L3ZMTG) at GES DISC

Description

SAMSN7L3ZMTG is the Nimbus-7 Stratospheric and Mesospheric Sounder (SAMS) Level 3 Zonal Means Composition Data Product. The Earth's surface is divided into 2.5-deg latitudinal zones that extend from 50 deg South to 67.5 deg North. Retrieved mixing ratios of nitrous oxide (N2O) and methane (CH4) are averaged over day and night, along with errors, at 31 pressure levels between 50 and 0.125 mbar. Because the N2O and CH4 channels cannot function simultaneously, only one type of measurement is made for any nominal day. The data were recovered from the original magnetic tapes, and are now stored online as one file in its original proprietary binary format. The data for this product are available from 1 January 1979 through 30 December 1981. The principal investigators for the SAMS experiment were Prof. John T. Houghton and Dr. Fredric W. Taylor from Oxford University. This product was previously available from the NSSDC with the identifier ESAD-00180 (old ID 78-098A-02C).

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Name Format Description Link
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2F2EYOUZJBHJJ0
34 Nimbus-7 SAMS zonal means of N2O (2 January 1979) and CH4 (3 January 1979). https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/Nimbus/images/SAMSN7L3ZMTG_Sample.png
21 Access the dataset landing page from the GES DISC website. https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datacollection/SAMSN7L3ZMTG_001.html
21 Access the data via HTTPS. https://acdisc.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/data/Nimbus7_SAMS_Level3/SAMSN7L3ZMTG.001/
21 Use the Earthdata Search Client to find and retrieve data sets across multiple data centers. https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=SAMSN7L3ZMTG
33 README Document https://acdisc.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/data/Nimbus7_SAMS_Level3/SAMSN7L3ZMTG.001/doc/README.SAMSN7L3.001.pdf
33 Nimbus 7 SAMS User's Guide https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/repository/Mission/Nimbus/3.3_Product_Documentation/3.3.5_Product_Quality/N7_SAMS_DataUserGuide_19890016933.pdf
21 N7 SAMS Inventory https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/Nimbus/N7_SAMS_Inventory.xlsx
33 Nimbus 7 User's Guide https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/repository/Mission/Nimbus/3.3_Product_Documentation/3.3.5_Product_Quality/N7_Users_Guide.pdf

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  • atmosphere
  • atmospheric-chemistry
  • earth-science

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