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Summary
These data consist of sets of 3-dimensional gridpoint analyses of the
stratosphere which are produced by the UK Meteorological Office using
data from the TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder (TOVS) instruments
onboard the NOAA operational polar orbiters. TOVS consists of 3
instruments, the Stratospheric Sounding Unit (SSU) the Microwave
Sounding Unit (MSU) and ... the High Resolution Infrared Sounder
(HIRS). The instruments are described in more detail in the BADC help
file

The primary products which are archived at the BADC are synoptic
fields of measured radiances and geopotential height. The radiances
from 8 of the TOVS channels with weighting functions distributed
throughout the stratosphere are stored on a 5 degree latitude by 5
degree longitude grid, whilst the geopotential heights are stored on
the same latitude/longitude grid on the 850, 500, 300, 200, 100, 50,
20, 10, 5, 2 and 1 hPa pressure surfaces. Both datasets are produced
daily at 1200 UTC. The analyses were produced from December 1978 until
April 1997.

Software is available to calculate brightness temperatures from the
radiances and temperatures and geostrophic winds and potential
vorticity from the geopotential height fields.

Link to the data set home page:
http://www.badc.rl.ac.uk/data/tovs/

[Summary Extracted from the BADC Home Page]

Related URL

Link: GET DATA Description: The Meteorological Office UK. Global weather services from the UK.

Geographic Coverage Spatial coordinates   

N: 90.0		S: -90.0		E: 180.0		W: -180.0
Max Altitude: 45 KM

Data Set Citation

Dataset Creator: UK Meteorological Office Dataset Title: Met Office - TOVS Stratospheric Analyses Dataset Release Place: Oxfordshire, United Kingdom Dataset Publisher: British Atmospheric Data Centre Online Resource: http://www.badc.rl.ac.uk/data/tovs/

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 1978-01-01 Stop Date: 1997-04-30

Location Keywords

GEOGRAPHIC REGION > GLOBAL VERTICAL LOCATION > STRATOSPHERE VERTICAL LOCATION > TROPOSPHERE

Data Resolution

Latitude Resolution: 5 degree Longitude Resolution: 5 degree Temporal Resolution: 1 day

Science Keywords

ATMOSPHERE > ALTITUDE > GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > AIR TEMPERATURE > BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE

ISO Topic Category

CLIMATOLOGY/METEOROLOGY/ATMOSPHERE

Platform

NOAA POES > NOAA Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellites

Instrument

HIRS > High Resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder MSU > Microwave Sounding Unit SSU > Stratospheric Sounding Unit TOVS > TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder

Access Constraints
The Met. Office wish to monitor the use of these analyses and require
an acknowledgement of the data source if they are used in any
publication. For these reasons we do not make the data available to
anonymous users through these WWW pages. In order to get access to the
data and accompanying software, please complete and sign the
conditions of use form. You will then be given FTP access to the data
directories from an account on a BADC computer.

Data Set Progress

COMPLETE

Data Center

British Atmospheric Data Centre, NERC Centres for Atmospheric Science, United Kingdom 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) Distribution Size: 1080 Mb Distribution Format: BIN 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 BADC SUPPORT Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT 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

Creation and Review Dates

DIF Creation Date: 2000-02-22 Last DIF Revision Date: 2008-02-15

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