THIR/Nimbus-6 Level 1 Meteorological Radiation Data at 6.7 microns V001 (THIRN6L1CH67) at GES DISC

Description

THIRN6L1CH67 is the Nimbus-6 Temperature-Humidity Infrared Radiometer (THIR) Level 1 Meteorological Radiation Data at 6.7 microns product and contains radiances expressed in units of equivalent brightness temperature measured in the 6.7 micron (water vapor) channel. The data, originally written on IBM 360 machines, were recovered from magnetic tapes, also referred to as Nimbus Meteorological Radiation Tapes (NMRT-THIR). The data are archived in their original IBM 36-bit word proprietary format, also referred to as a binary TAP file. The Nimbus-6 satellite was successfully launched on June 18, 1975. The Temperature-Humidity Infrared Radiometer (THIR) experiment on Nimbus-6 continues the measurements made by its predecessors flown on Nimbus-4 and Nimbus-5. The THIR instrument is a two channel high resolution scanning radiometer designed to perform two major functions: 1) The 11.5-12.5 micron channel provides both day and night cloud top or surface temperatures, with a resolution at nadir of 8 km, and operates day and night. 2) The 6.7 micron channel gives information on the water vapor content of the upper troposphere and stratosphere and the location of jet streams and frontal systems, with a resolution at nadir of 22 km, and operates mostly at night. The THIR Principal Investigator was Andrew W. McCulloch from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. This product was previously available from the NSSDC with the identifier ESAD-00164 (old ID 75-052A-12D).

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34 THIRN6L1CH67_001.png https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/Images/THIRN6L1CH67_001.png
21 Access the data via HTTPS. https://acdisc.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/data/Nimbus6_THIR_Level1/THIRN6L1CH67.001/
21 Additional Nimbus data and images can be found at NSIDC https://nsidc.org/data/nimbus/data-sets.html
21 Nimbus6 THIR Ch67 Inventory https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/Nimbus/N6_THIR_Ch67_Inventory.xlsx
19 Nimbus 6 Data Catalog https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/repository/Mission/Nimbus/3.3_Product_Documentation/3.3.5_Product_Quality/DataCatalogNimbus6.tar.gz
21 Use the Earthdata Search to find and retrieve data sets across multiple data centers. https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=THIRN6L1CH67
21 Access the dataset landing page from the GES DISC website. https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datacollection/THIRN6L1CH67_001.html
33 README Document https://acdisc.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/data/Nimbus6_THIR_Level1/THIRN6L1CH67.001/doc/README.THIRN6L1.001.pdf
33 Nimbus 6 User's Guide https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/repository/Mission/Nimbus/3.3_Product_Documentation/3.3.5_Product_Quality/NimbusVIUG.pdf
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FSWOT-NALT-OGDR-1.0
21 SWOT Mission Page https://swot.jpl.nasa.gov
21 SWOT Mission Page https://swot.jpl.nasa.gov
21 SWOT Mission Page at NASA https://www.nasa.gov/swot
21 SWOT Mission Page at JPL https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/surface-water-and-ocean-topography-swot
21 SWOT Mission Page at PO.DAAC https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/swot
21 SWOT Mission Page at AVISO https://www.aviso.altimetry.fr/en/missions/current-missions/swot.html
21 Data Subscriber https://github.com/podaac/data-subscriber
21 Data Use and Citation Policy https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/CitingPODAAC
21 HTTPS endpoint for data browse and download https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/virtual-directory/collections/C2296989383-POCLOUD
21 Browse granule search results in Earthdata Search https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/granules?p=C2296989383-POCLOUD
22 Thumbnail https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/Podaac/thumbnails/SWOT_L2_NALT_OGDR_1.0.jpg
33 Product Description Document (PDD) https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/web-misc/swot_mission_docs/pdd/SALP-ST-M-EA-17043-CN_0103_20220411_Rev1.3.pdf

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

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