ASDC | ERBE_S10_MFOV_SF_NAT

ERBE Level 3

Entry Title: Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) S-10 Medium Field of View (MFOV) Shape Factor (SF) Radiant Flux and Albedo

Entry ID: ERBE_S10_MFOV_SF_NAT_1

Radiation Budget

Description

ERBE_S10_MFOV_SF_NAT_1 is the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) S-10 Medium Field of View (MFOV) Shape Factor (SF) Radiant Flux and Albedo data product. Data collection for this product is complete. It is available in the Native (NAT) Format.

ERBE was a multi-satellite system designed to measure the Earth's radiation budget. The ERBE instruments flew on a mid-inclination National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Earth Radiation Budget Satellite (ERBS) and two sun-synchronous National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellites (NOAA-9 and NOAA-10). Each satellite carried both a scanner and a non-scanner instrument package. The non-scanner instrument package contained four Earth-viewing channels and a solar monitor. The Earth-viewing channels had two spatial resolutions: a horizon-to-horizon view of the Earth, and a field-of-view limited to about 1000 km in diameter. The former was called the wide field-of-view (WFOV) and the latter MFOV channels. The solar monitor was a direct descendant of the Solar Maximum Mission's Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor detector. Due to the concern for spectral flatness and high accuracy, all five of the channels were active cavity radiometers. The MFOV (medium-field-of-view) SF (shape factor) S-10 contained inverted daily, monthly hourly, and monthly averages of shortwave and long-wave radiant fluxes at the top-of-the-atmosphere for one month. This data set was produced for each of the satellites (ERBS and NOAA-9) and the combination of satellites, which were operational during the data month. The values for this data set were derived using the shape factor technique (Smith et al. 1986). As described in the Earth Radiant Fluxes and Albedo, Scanner S-9, Non-scanner S-10/S-10N User's Guide, the data contains a 30 byte header, 67 scale factors which were used to scale the data in the first record, and 26 scale factors which were used to scale the data in the second record. The data set also contained two records for each processed region. The first record was of fixed length (990 words) and contained averaged data. The second record was of variable length and contained individual hour box estimates. The length of the second record, in words, was calculated by multiplying the number of hour boxes (978th word of record one) by the number of values stored for each hour box (38 for the non-scanner).

DOI

10.5067/ERBE/S10_MFOV_SF_NAT_L3

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SOLAR RADIATION
SHORTWAVE RADIATION
OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATION
ALBEDO
SOLAR IRRADIANCE
RADIATIVE FLUX

Albedo
ERBE-Nonscanner
Incidence
Radiative Flux

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Spatial Coverage: (S: -90, N: 90), (W: -180, E: 180)
Spatial Coverage Type: Horizontal
Coordinate System: Cartesian
Granule Spatial Representation: Cartesian

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GLOBAL

Temporal Information

Temporal Coverage: 1984-11-01 - 1990-02-28
Temporal Resolution: Monthly

Platforms

Earth Observation Satellites

ERBS

Earth Radiation Budget Satellite

ERBE

Earth Radiation Budget Experiment

NOAA-9

National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration-9

ERBE

Earth Radiation Budget Experiment

Metadata Dates

Created on 1999-09-03

Last updated on 2022-11-01

ERBE Level 3

Entry Title: Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) S-10 Medium Field of View (MFOV) Shape Factor (SF) Radiant Flux and Albedo

Entry ID: ERBE_S10_MFOV_SF_NAT_1

Radiation Budget

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Earth Observation Satellites

Earth Radiation Budget Satellite

ERBE

Earth Radiation Budget Experiment

National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration-9

ERBE

Earth Radiation Budget Experiment

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