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TOMS - Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer Data offered by the British Atmospheric Data Center
Entry ID: BADC_TOMS_ONLINE

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Summary
Abstract: The Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) is an instrument built and
operated by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA). The instrument uses backscattered ultraviolet radiance to
infer total column ozone measurements. The data consists of daily
gridded averages of total ozone covering the entire globe. The
original Nimbus-7 TOMS operated from ... View entire text
Related URL
Link: VIEW PROJECT HOME PAGE
Description: The NASA TOMS project home page.
Geographic Coverage
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Spatial coordinates   
  N: 90.0   S: -90.0   E: 180.0   W: -180.0

Data Set Citation
Dataset Originator/Creator: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Dataset Title: TOMS - Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer Data offered by the British Atmospheric Data Center
Dataset Release Place: Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
Dataset Publisher: British Atmospheric Data Centre
Online Resource: http://www.badc.rl.ac.uk/data/toms/
Parent DIF
This data set description is a member of a collection. The collection is described in
BADC_UK
Temporal Coverage
Start Date: 1978-11-01
Location Keywords
Data Resolution
Latitude Resolution: 1.00 degree
Longitude Resolution: 1.25 degree
Horizontal Resolution Range: 100 km - < 250 km or approximately 1 degree - < 2.5 degrees
Temporal Resolution: 1 day
Science Keywords
ISO Topic Category
Platform
ADEOS-I > Advanced Earth Observing Satellite-I Ancillary Description
EP-TOMS > Earth Probe-TOMS Ancillary Description
METEOR-3 Ancillary Description
NIMBUS-7 Ancillary Description
Instrument
TOMS > Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer Ancillary Description
Access Constraints The BADC holds the entire TOMS dataset online in daily ASCII
files. The Nimbus-7 data includes monthly and zonal averages. The data
can be freely transferred using WWW or anonymous FTP. Near real-time
data and GIF images are available. Note that these datasets are not
fully validated. Software to read the data is available.
Use Constraints Please cite the data set originator if you use this data.
Data Set Progress
IN WORK
Originating Center
Data Center
British Atmospheric Data Centre, NERC Centres for Atmospheric Science, United Kingdom Supplemental Info
Data Center URL: http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/

Data Center Personnel
Name: BADC SUPPORT
Phone: +44 1235 446432
Fax: +44 1235 445848
Email: BADC at rl.ac.uk
Contact Address:
British Atmospheric Data Centre
Space Science Department
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
UK
City: Chilton
Province or State: Didcot
Postal Code: OX11 OQX
Country: UK
Distribution
Distribution Media: Online (FTP, HTTP)
Distribution Size: 4000 Mb
Distribution Format: ASCII
Fees: None
Personnel
SCOTT A. RITZ
Role: DIF AUTHOR
Phone: 301-614-5126
Fax: 301-614-5268
Email: Scott.A.Ritz at nasa.gov
Contact Address:
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Global Change Master Directory
City: Greenbelt
Province or State: Maryland
Postal Code: 20771
Country: USA
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Creation and Review Dates
DIF Creation Date: 2000-02-23
Last DIF Revision Date: 2008-09-02

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