Identification

Title

NASA DC-8 Electronically Scanned Microwave Radiometer (ESMR) Data

Alternative title(s)

80.020

Abstract

This data set contains the microwave brightness temperatures from the Electronically Scanned Microwave Radiometer (ESMR) that was on-board the NASA DC-8 aircraft that flew out of Townsville, Australia during the TOGA COARE field project. The data are in a binary format. Included with the data set is C code that was used to read the binary files. Also included are some quick look imagery.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/80.020

protocol: https

name: NASA DC-8 Electronically Scanned Microwave Radiometer (ESMR) Data homepage

description: Dataset homepage

http://data.eol.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/codiac/fgr_form/id=80.020

protocol: http

name: NASA DC-8 Electronically Scanned Microwave Radiometer (ESMR) Data Data Order Form

description: Dataset order request form. Data files are made available via FTP.

function: order

Unique resource identifier

code

80.020

codeSpace

Dataset language

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

dataset

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2014-10-16

Keyword set

keyword value

Aircraft, NASA DC-8

Keyword set

keyword value

Aircraft

Keyword set

keyword value

EARTH SCIENCE > SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING > MICROWAVE > BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2018-02-27

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

140.00000

East bounding longitude

155.00000

North bounding latitude

0.00000

South bounding latitude

-20.00000

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

1993-01-11T00:00:00Z

End position

1993-02-26T23:59:59Z

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2018-10-05T20:39:04Z

Frequency of update

Quality and validity

Lineage

Conformity

Data format

name of format

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

none

Limitations on public access

none

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

contact position

EOL Data Support

organisation name

UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory

full postal address

PO Box 3000

Boulder

80307-3000

email address

eol-datahelp@ucar.edu

web address

https://data.eol.ucar.edu/

name: homepage

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Responsible party

contact position

EOL Data Support

organisation name

UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory

full postal address

PO Box 3000

Boulder

80307-3000

email address

eol-datahelp@ucar.edu

web address

https://data.eol.ucar.edu/

name: homepage

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

contact position

EOL Data Support

organisation name

UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory

full postal address

PO Box 3000

Boulder

80307-3000

email address

eol-datahelp@ucar.edu

web address

https://data.eol.ucar.edu/

name: homepage

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2021-09-28T16:05:10Z

Metadata language