The Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) is a multisatellite
system designed to measure the Earth's radiation budget. The ERBE
instruments fly on a mid-inclination National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA) satellite (Earth Radiation Budget Satellite
(ERBS) and two sun-synchronous National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA) satellites (NOAA-9 and NOAA-10). Each satellite
carries both a scanner and a nonscanner instrument package. The S-8
contains all satellite and viewing geometry, and all scanner and
nonscanner radiometric measurements in engineering units with flags
defining their validity. It also contains quantities such as scanner
measurements corrected to flat spectral responses, the scene
identified for each scanner pixel, the estimate of radiant flux at the
top of the atmosphere for each scanner pixel, and the estimates of the
radiant fluxes from the nonscanner measurements. The data is for a 24
hour period and one satellite. If all three satellites were
operational on the same day, three separate S-8s are required for a
full set of ERBE data. The data period starts at Greenwich midnight
(zero Universal Time) and continues for 24 hours and the period is
divided into 16-second intervals.
Purpose:
Not Available
Supplemental_Information:
REFERENCE:
The Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) Data Management System
Processed Archival Tape S-8 PAT Users' Guide, December 1987.
Contact_Organization: NASA/LARC/SD/LARC_DAAC > Langley Research Center Distributed Active Archive Center, Science Directorate, Langley Research Center, NASA
Contact_Person: ASDC USER SERVICES
Contact_Position: DATA CENTER CONTACT
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: Mailing and Physical Address
Address: NASA Langley Atmospheric Science Data Center
