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LBA-ECO CD-07 GOES-8 L3 GRIDDED SURFACE RADIATION AND RAIN RATE FOR AMAZONIA: 1999

Entry ID: LBAGOES8_L3SRB

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Summary

Abstract: High resolution downwelling solar, PAR, infrared radiation and rain rates retrieved from GOES-8 imager. The data set covers primarily Amazon watershed area. It has 8km and half hourly resolution. Data covers two periods in 1999: March 1 - April 30 and September 1 - October 31. Files are available in compressed binary format.

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Geographic Coverage

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Spatial coordinates

N: 5.0

S: -15.0

E: -40.0

W: -75.0

Data Set Citation

Dataset Originator/Creator: COOPER, H.J.DIAS, P.L.S.GROSE, A.M.E.GU, J.J.NORMAN, J.M.SMITH, E.A.

Dataset Title: LBA-ECO CD-07 GOES-8 L3 GRIDDED SURFACE RADIATION AND RAIN RATE FOR AMAZONIA: 1999

Dataset Release Date: 2006

Dataset Release Place: Oak Ridge, Tennessee, U.S.A.

Dataset Publisher: Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center

Data Presentation Form: Online Files

Dataset DOI: doi:10.3334/ORNLDAAC/831

Online Resource: http://mercury.ornl.gov/ornldaac/send/query?term2=831&term2attribut...

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 1999-03-01

Stop Date: 2005-06-29

Location Keywords

CONTINENT > SOUTH AMERICA > AMAZONIA

Science Keywords

ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION > INCOMING SOLAR RADIATION

OCEANS > OCEAN HEAT BUDGET > LONGWAVE RADIATION

BIOSPHERE > VEGETATION > PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION

ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > PRECIPITATION RATE

ISO Topic Category

CLIMATOLOGY/METEOROLOGY/ATMOSPHERE

OCEANS

BIOTA

Platform

GOES-8 > Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 8

Instrument

GOES-8 IMAGER

Project

EOSDIS > Earth Observing System Data Information System

ESIP > Earth Science Information Partners Program

LBA-ECO > NASA's Component of the Large-scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia

CWIC > CEOS WGISS Integrated Catalog

Ancillary Keywords

SRB: SURFACE RADIATION BUDGET

Data Set Progress

COMPLETE

Data Center

THE OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY (ORNL) DISTRIBUTED ACTIVE ARCHIVE CENTER (DAAC)

Data Center URL: http://daac.ornl.gov/
Dataset ID: 831

Data Center Personnel
Name: ORNL DAAC USER SERVICES OFFICE Phone: (865) 574-7447 Email: uso at daac.ornl.gov Contact Address: ORNL DAAC User Services Office Oak Ridge National Laboratory City: Oak Ridge Province or State: TN Postal Code: 37831-6407 Country: USA