Nimbus-7 SMMR Pathfinder Daily EASE-Grid Brightness Temperatures  View Catalog Page Entry ID
NSIDC-0071
Summary
This data set consists of brightness temperatures acquired from the Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SMMR) on board the Nimbus-7 Pathfinder satellite. The brightness temperatures have been gridded onto the Equal-Area Scalable Earth Grid (EASE-Grid) and are presented in three different projections: Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere, and global. The SMMR EASE-Grid data were derived from SMMR brightness temperatures in swath format (level 1b data). Coverage is global, and data are available from 25 October 1978 through 20 August 1987. The spatial resolution is 25 km for all channels (6.6, 10.7, 18, 21, and 37 GHz for both vertical and horizontal polarizations). Both brightness temperatures and time files are provided for a given projection in flat binary format for each day. The brightness temperatures are provided in tenths of kelvins and the time files are in minutes since 0:00 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) of the date of the enclosing file. Data are available via FTP. Users may also order data on CD-ROM while supplies last.
Geographic Coverage
Spatial Coordinates:
N: 90°
S: -90°
E: 180°
W: -180°
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Data Set Citation
Dataset Creator: K. W. Knowles, Eni Njoku, R. L. Armstrong, and M. J. Brodzik
Dataset Title: Nimbus-7 SMMR Pathfinder Daily EASE-Grid Brightness Temperatures
Dataset Release Date: 2000-01-01
Dataset Release Place: Boulder, Colorado USA
Dataset Publisher: NSIDC: National Snow and Ice Data Center
Online Resource: http://nsidc.org/data/nsidc-0071.html
Temporal Coverage
Start Date: 1978-10-25
Stop Date: 1987-08-20
Data Resolution
Latitude Resolution: 25 km
Longitude Resolution: 25 km
Latitude Resolution: 25 km
Longitude Resolution: 25 km
Temporal Resolution: 1 day
Location Keywords
- GEOGRAPHIC REGION GLOBAL
- GEOGRAPHIC REGION NORTHERN HEMISPHERE
- GEOGRAPHIC REGION SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE
Science Keywords
- Spectral/Engineering Microwave Brightness Temperature
- Spectral/Engineering Microwave Brightness Temperature
Ancillary Keywords
- Antarctic
- Arctic
- BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES
- Ease
- EASE-Grid
- EOSDIS
- Global
- Gridded Data
- NIMBUS-7
- Northern Hemisphere
- Passive Microwave
- Pathfinder
- Polar
- RADIOMETER
- Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer
- SMMR
- Southern Hemisphere
- Climatology/Meteorology/Atmosphere
Platform
Instrument
- SMMR Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer
Project
- EOSDIS Earth Observing System Data Information System
- ESIP Earth Science Information Partners Program
- NOAA/NASA PATHFINDER NOAA/NASA Pathfinder Program
Quality
Quality indicator flags were provided in the level 1b data for the scan status word of each scan. These flags indicated conditions in the original data or in the data processing that may have given rise to reduced-quality calibrated output. None of these data were eliminated from the gridded product
Data Set Progress
complete
Originating Center
NSIDC
Data Center
NASA DAAC at the National Snow and Ice Data Center
Data Center URL: http://nsidc.org/daac/index.html
Data Center Personnel
Name: NSIDC User Services
Phone: 1 303 492-6199
Fax: 1 303 492-2468
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
Contact Address:
- National Snow and Ice Data Center
- CIRES, 449 UCB
- University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA
National Snow and Ice Data Center
Data Center URL: http://nsidc.org
Data Center Personnel
Name: NSIDC User Services
Phone: 1 303 492-6199
Fax: 1 303 492-2468
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
Contact Address:
- National Snow and Ice Data Center
- CIRES, 449 UCB
- University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA
Distribution
Distribution Media: CD-ROM
Distribution Size: 83 MB
Distribution Format: Binary
Distribution Media: FTP
Distribution Size: 83 MB
Distribution Format: Binary
Personnel
NSIDC User Services
Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT
Phone: 1 303 492-6199 x
Fax: 1 303 492-2468 x
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
Contact Address:
- National Snow and Ice Data Center
- CIRES, 449 UCB
- University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA
Kenneth Knowles
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Contact Address:
- National Snow and Ice Data Center
- National Snow and Ice Data Center
- CIRES, 449 UCB
- University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA
Mary J. Brodzik
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Email: brodzik@nsidc.org
Contact Address:
- National Snow and Ice Data Center
- National Snow and Ice Data Center
- CIRES, 449 UCB
- University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Richard Armstrong
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Phone: 1 303 492-6199
Fax: 1 303 492-2468
Email: rlax@nsidc.org
Contact Address:
- National Snow and Ice Data Center
- National Snow and Ice Data Center
- CIRES 449 UCB
- University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: Colorado
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA
Eni G. Njoku
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Phone: 1 818 354-3693
Email: njoku@lor.jpl.nasa.gov
Contact Address:
- California Institute of Technology
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- M/S 300-233
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- California Institute of Technology
- 4800 Oak Grove Drive
City: Pasadena
Province or State: CA
Postal Code: 91109-8099
Country: USA
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Reference
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Metadata Name and Version
Metadata Name: CEOS IDN DIF
Metadata Version: 9.7
Creation and Review Dates
DIF Creation Date: 2000-01-01
Last DIF Revision Date: 2012-07-18
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