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    THIR/Nimbus-7 Level 1 Calibrated Located Radiation Data at 6.7 and 11.5 microns V001 (THIRN7L1CLDT) at GES DISC

    Metadata Updated: February 23, 2025

    THIRN7L1CLDT is the Nimbus-7 Temperature-Humidity Infrared Radiometer (THIR) Level 1 Calibrated Located Radiation Data (CLDT) at 6.7 and 11.5 microns product and contains radiances expressed in units of W/m2/sr measured in the 10.5 - 12.5 (11.5) micron and 6.5 - 7.0 (6.7) micron channels. The data, originally written on IBM 360 machines, were recovered from magnetic 9-track tapes. The data are archived in their original proprietary format.

    The Nimbus-7 satellite was successfully launched on October 28, 1978. The Temperature-Humidity Infrared Radiometer (THIR) experiment on Nimbus-7 is basically identical to its predecessors flown on Nimbus-4, -5 and -6, except that the data were digitized on board. The THIR instrument is a two channel high resolution scanning radiometer designed to perform two major functions: The 11.5 micron channel provides both day and night cloud top or surface temperatures. The ground resolution at the sub-point is 6.7 km and operates day and night. The 6.7 micron channel gives information on the moisture content of the upper troposphere and stratosphere and the location of jet streams and frontal systems. The water vapor channel has a resolution of the sub-point is 20 km and operates mostly at night.

    The THIR Principal Investigator was Dr. Larry L. Stowe from NOAA NESDIS. The Nimbus-7 THIR data are available from October 30, 1979 (day of year 303) through May 13, 1985 (day of year 133).

    This product was previously available from the NSSDC with the identifier ESAD-00107 (old ID 78-098A-10C).

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: No license information was provided.

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    Metadata Created Date February 23, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date February 23, 2025

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    Harvested from nasa test json

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    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date February 23, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date February 23, 2025
    Publisher NASA/GSFC/SED/ESD/GCDC/GESDISC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C1273652204-GES_DISC
    Data First Published 2011-06-27
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2025-02-19
    Category Nimbus, geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
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    Homepage URL https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov:443/search/concepts/C1273652204-GES_DISC.html
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -180.0 -90.0 180.0 90.0
    Program Code 026:001
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 8f75e234514b455235279d53a4a885196d71a246ade116d79d4461e88fa298e3
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 1978-10-30T00:00:00Z/1985-05-13T23:59:59.999Z

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