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The NOAA-9 Earth Radiation Budget Experiment Wide Field-of-View Data SetThe Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) consisted of wide field-of-view (WFOV) radiometers and scanning radiometers for measuring outgoing longwave radiation and solar radiation reflected from the Earth. These instruments were carried by the dedicated Earth Radiation Budget Satellite (ERBS) and by the NOAA-9 and -10 operational spacecraft. The WFOV radiometers provided data from which instantaneous fluxes at the top of the atmosphere (TOA) are computed by use of a numerical filter algorithm. Monthly mean fluxes over a 5-degree equal angle grid are computed from the instantaneous TOA fluxes. The WFOV radiometers aboard the NOAA-9 spacecraft operated from February 1985 through December 1992, at which time a failure of the shortwave radiometer ended the usable data after nearly 8 years. This paper examines the monthly mean products from that data set.
Document ID
20040086990
Acquisition Source
Langley Research Center
Document Type
Other
Authors
Bush, Kathryn A.
(Science Applications International Corp. United States)
Smith, G. Louis
(Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ. Blacksburg, VA, United States)
Young, David F.
(NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA, United States)
Date Acquired
August 21, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1999
Subject Category
Research And Support Facilities (Air)
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAS1-19579
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAG1-1959
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.
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