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The product contents are channel 1 albedo, channel 2 albedo, channel 3a albedo, channel 3 brightness temperature, channel 4 brightness temperature, channel 5 brightness temperature, moisture corrected sea-surface-temperature, 8-bit CLAVR ocean cloud mask, 2-bit CLAVR-X cloud mask, satellite zenith angle, solar zenith angle, relative azimuth angle and 8-bit graphics layers. The pixel resolution is 1.47 km/pixel except for synoptic region in Alaska (5 km/pixel) and the Great Lakes (1.8 km/pixel). Purpose: Character string: Products are intended for federal, state and local government environmental decision makers. Other uses include recreational boating, educators, resource managers and researchers. Status: MD_ProgressCode: underDevelopment Point of contact: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: John F. 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Function: CI_OnLineFunctionCode: information Role: CI_RoleCode: distributor Association type: Association type code: crossReference Initiative type: DS_InitiativeTypeCode: userGuide Language: Character string: eng Character set: MD_CharacterSetCode: utf8 Topic category: MD_TopicCategoryCode: climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere Topic category: MD_TopicCategoryCode: oceans Extent: EX_Extent: Description: Character string: gov.noaa.class:CW_REGION.BoundingExtent Geographic element: EX_GeographicBoundingBox: Extent type code: Boolean: 1 West bound longitude: Decimal: -179 East bound longitude: Decimal: 179 South bound latitude: Decimal: -30 North bound latitude: Decimal: 75 Geographic element: EX_GeographicDescription: Geographic identifier: MD_Identifier: Authority: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: NASA/GCMD Location Keywords Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 2009-01-01 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: revision Code: Character string: Continent > North America > United States Of America > Great 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2009-01-01 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: revision Code: Character string: West Coast South Geographic element: EX_GeographicDescription: Geographic identifier: MD_Identifier: Authority: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: None Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 2009-01-01 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: revision Code: Character string: Great Salt Lake Geographic element: EX_GeographicDescription: Geographic identifier: MD_Identifier: Authority: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: NASA/GCMD Location Keywords Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 2009-01-01 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: revision Code: Character string: Ocean > Atlantic Ocean > North Atlantic Ocean > Caribbean Sea Geographic element: EX_GeographicDescription: Geographic identifier: MD_Identifier: Authority: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: None Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 2009-01-01 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: revision Code: Character string: Alaska South Geographic element: EX_GeographicDescription: Geographic identifier: MD_Identifier: Authority: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: None Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 2009-01-01 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: revision Code: Character string: East Coast Bermuda Geographic element: EX_GeographicDescription: Geographic identifier: MD_Identifier: Authority: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: None Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 2009-01-01 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: revision Code: Character string: West Coast North Geographic element: EX_GeographicDescription: Geographic identifier: MD_Identifier: Authority: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: NASA/GCMD Location Keywords Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 2009-01-01 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: revision Code: Character string: Ocean > Pacific Ocean > North Pacific Ocean > Gulf Of Alaska Geographic element: EX_GeographicDescription: Geographic identifier: MD_Identifier: Authority: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: None Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 2009-01-01 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: revision Code: Character string: Alaska Sitka Geographic element: EX_GeographicDescription: Geographic identifier: MD_Identifier: Authority: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: None Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 2009-01-01 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: revision Code: Character string: East Coast North Geographic element: EX_GeographicDescription: Geographic identifier: MD_Identifier: Authority: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: None Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 2009-01-01 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: revision Code: Character string: West Coast Baja Geographic element: EX_GeographicDescription: Geographic identifier: MD_Identifier: Authority: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: NASA/GCMD Location Keywords Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 2009-01-01 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: revision Code: Character string: Ocean > Pacific Ocean > Central Pacific Ocean > Hawaiian Islands Geographic element: EX_GeographicDescription: Geographic identifier: MD_Identifier: Authority: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: None Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 2009-01-01 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: revision Code: Character string: Alaska North Geographic element: EX_GeographicDescription: Geographic identifier: MD_Identifier: Authority: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: NASA/GCMD Location Keywords Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 2009-01-01 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: revision Code: Character string: Ocean > Atlantic Ocean > North Atlantic Ocean > Gulf Of Mexico Geographic element: EX_GeographicDescription: Geographic identifier: MD_Identifier: Authority: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: None Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 2009-01-01 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: revision Code: Character string: Alaska West Geographic element: EX_GeographicDescription: Geographic identifier: MD_Identifier: Authority: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: None Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 2009-01-01 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: revision Code: Character string: West Coast Acapulco Geographic element: EX_GeographicDescription: Geographic identifier: MD_Identifier: Authority: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: None Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 2009-01-01 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: revision Code: Character string: Caribbean West Geographic element: EX_GeographicDescription: Geographic identifier: MD_Identifier: Authority: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: None Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 2009-01-01 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: revision Code: Character string: East Coast South Temporal element: EX_TemporalExtent: Extent: Time period: Begin: Time instant: Time position: 20031110 End: Time instant: Time position: now Supplemental information: Character string: The image products are produced within 4 hours of the satellite observation. Content information: MI_CoverageDescription: Attribute description: Record type: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/getRecordDescription/gov.noaa.class:CW_REGION Content type: MD_CoverageContentTypeCode: physicalMeasurement Dimension: MD_Band: Sequence identifier: Member name: Name: Character string: avhrr_ch1 Attribute type: Type name: Name: Character string: Real Descriptor: Character string: AVHRR channel 1 albedo. Maximum value: Real: 100 Minimum value: Real: 0 Value unit: http://TBD_UnitsDictionary#percent Scale factor: Real: 1 Dimension: MD_Band: Sequence identifier: Member name: Name: Character string: avhrr_ch2 Attribute type: Type name: Name: Character string: Real Descriptor: Character string: AVHRR channel 2 albedo. Maximum value: Real: 100 Minimum value: Real: 0 Value unit: http://TBD_UnitsDictionary#percent Scale factor: Real: 1 Dimension: MD_Band: Sequence identifier: Member name: Name: Character string: avhrr_ch3a Attribute type: Type name: Name: Character string: Real Descriptor: Character string: AVHRR channel 3a albedo. Maximum value: Real: 100 Minimum value: Real: 0 Value unit: http://TBD_UnitsDictionary#percent Scale factor: Real: 1 Dimension: MD_Band: Sequence identifier: Member name: Name: Character string: avhrr_ch3 Attribute type: Type name: Name: Character string: Real Descriptor: Character string: AVHRR channel 3 brightness temperature. Maximum value: Real: 61.85 Minimum value: Real: -93.15 Value unit: http://TBD_UnitsDictionary#degrees_Celsius Scale factor: Real: 1 Dimension: MD_Band: Sequence identifier: Member name: Name: Character string: avhrr_ch4 Attribute type: Type name: Name: Character string: Real Descriptor: Character string: AVHRR channel 4 brightness temperature. Maximum value: Real: 61.85 Minimum value: Real: -93.15 Value unit: http://TBD_UnitsDictionary#degrees_Celsius Scale factor: Real: 1 Dimension: MD_Band: Sequence identifier: Member name: Name: Character string: avhrr_ch5 Attribute type: Type name: Name: Character string: Real Descriptor: Character string: AVHRR channel 5 brightness temperature. Maximum value: Real: 61.85 Minimum value: Real: -93.15 Value unit: http://TBD_UnitsDictionary#degrees_Celsius Scale factor: Real: 1 Dimension: MD_Band: Sequence identifier: Member name: Name: Character string: sst Attribute type: Type name: Name: Character string: Real Descriptor: Character string: Moisture corrected temperature of sea water near the surface (including the part under sea-ice, if any), and not the skin temperature and tuned to drifting buoys at 1 meter depth. Maximum value: Real: 61.85 Minimum value: Real: -93.15 Value unit: http://TBD_UnitsDictionary#degrees_Celsius Scale factor: Real: 1 Content information: MI_CoverageDescription: Attribute description: Record type: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/getRecordDescription/gov.noaa.class:CW_REGION Content type: MD_CoverageContentTypeCode: referenceInformation Dimension: MD_Band: Sequence identifier: Member name: Name: Character string: Graphics Attribute type: Type name: Name: Character string: Real Descriptor: Character string: 8-bit graphics layers. Where a bit value of 0 is interpreted as 'off' and a bit value of 1 as 'on'. In this way, 8 separate binary bitmasks may be encoded into one byte value. For example a pixel with graphics planes 2, 3, and 4 on is encoded as: Binary value = 00001110 and Decimal value = 14. Range element description: MI_RangeElementDescription: Name: Character string: Bit 1: Fill flag Definition: Character string: Value used to fill in for unwritten data. Range element: Record: Character string: Bit 1: Fill flag Range element description: MI_RangeElementDescription: Name: Character string: Bit 2: Latitude/longitude grid Definition: Character string: Grid line graphics plane. If the value is 0, then there are no grid graphics. Range element: Record: Character string: Bit 2: Latitude/longitude grid Range element description: MI_RangeElementDescription: Name: Character string: Bit 3: Coastline and political geography lines Definition: Character string: The coast line and political line graphics plane. The coastline default value is plane 3. If the plane value is 0, no coast graphics are rendered. Range element: Record: Character string: Bit 3: Coastline and political geography lines Range element description: MI_RangeElementDescription: Name: Character string: Bit 4: Land/water flag Definition: Character string: The land mask graphics plane. The default is plane 4. If the plane value is 0, no land graphics are rendered. Range element: Record: Character string: Bit 4: Land/water flag Range element description: MI_RangeElementDescription: Name: Character string: Bits 5-8: Unused Definition: Character string: Unused bits. Range element: Record: Character string: Bits 5-8: Unused Content information: MI_CoverageDescription: Attribute description: Record type: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/getRecordDescription/gov.noaa.class:CW_REGION Content type: MD_CoverageContentTypeCode: auxilliaryData Dimension: MD_Band: Sequence identifier: Member name: Name: Character string: Cloud Attribute type: Type name: Name: Character string: Real Descriptor: Character string: 8-bit Clouds from Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (CLAVR) ocean cloud mask. Maximum value: Real: 255 Minimum value: Real: 0 Value unit: http://TBD_UnitsDictionary#bits Scale factor: Real: 1 Range element description: MI_RangeElementDescription: Name: Character string: Daytime - Bit 1: Reflective Gross Cloud Test Definition: Character string: Reflective Gross Cloud Test Range element: Record: Character string: Daytime - Bit 1: Reflective Gross Cloud Test Range element description: MI_RangeElementDescription: Name: Character string: Daytime - Bit 2: Reflectance Uniformity Test Definition: Character string: Reflectance Uniformity Test Range element: Record: Character string: Daytime - Bit 2: Reflectance Uniformity Test Range element description: MI_RangeElementDescription: Name: Character string: Daytime - Bit 3: Reflectance Ratio Cloud Test Definition: Character string: Reflectance Ratio Cloud Test Range element: Record: Character string: Daytime - Bit 3: Reflectance Ratio Cloud Test Range element description: MI_RangeElementDescription: Name: Character string: Daytime - Bit 4: Channel 3 Albedo Test Definition: Character string: Channel 3 Albedo Test Range element: Record: Character string: Daytime - Bit 4: Channel 3 Albedo Test Range element description: MI_RangeElementDescription: Name: Character string: Daytime - Bit 5: Thermal Uniformity Test Definition: Character string: Thermal Uniformity Test Range element: Record: Character string: Daytime - Bit 5: Thermal Uniformity Test Range element description: MI_RangeElementDescription: Name: Character string: Daytime - Bit 6: Four Minus Five Test Definition: Character string: Four Minus Five Test Range element: Record: Character string: Daytime - Bit 6: Four Minus Five Test Range element description: MI_RangeElementDescription: Name: Character string: Daytime - Bit 7: Thermal Gross Cloud Test Definition: Character string: Thermal Gross Cloud Test Range element: Record: Character string: Daytime - Bit 7: Thermal Gross Cloud Test Range element description: MI_RangeElementDescription: Name: Character string: Nighttime - Bit 1: Thermal Gross Cloud Test Definition: Character string: Thermal Gross Cloud Test Range element: Record: Character string: Nighttime - Bit 1: Thermal Gross Cloud Test Range element description: MI_RangeElementDescription: Name: Character string: Nighttime - Bit 2: Thermal Uniformity Test Definition: Character string: Thermal Uniformity Test Range element: Record: Character string: Nighttime - Bit 2: Thermal Uniformity Test Range element description: MI_RangeElementDescription: Name: Character string: Nighttime - Bit 3: Uniform Low Stratus Test Definition: Character string: Uniform Low Stratus Test Range element: Record: Character string: Nighttime - Bit 3: Uniform Low Stratus Test Range element description: MI_RangeElementDescription: Name: Character string: Nighttime - Bit 4: Four Minus Five Test Definition: Character string: Four Minus Five Test Range element: Record: Character string: Nighttime - Bit 4: Four Minus Five Test Range element description: MI_RangeElementDescription: Name: Character string: Nighttime - Bit 5: Cirrus Test Definition: Character string: Cirrus Test Range element: Record: Character string: Nighttime - Bit 5: Cirrus Test Range element description: MI_RangeElementDescription: Name: Character string: Nighttime - Bit 6: Channel 3B Albedo Test Definition: Character string: Channel 3B Albedo Test Range element: Record: Character string: Nighttime - Bit 6: Channel 3B Albedo Test Range element description: MI_RangeElementDescription: Name: Character string: Nighttime - Bit 7: Channel 3B Albedo Uniformity Test Definition: Character string: Channel 3B Albedo Uniformity Test Range element: Record: Character string: Nighttime - Bit 7: Channel 3B Albedo Uniformity Test Distribution information: MD_Distribution: Distributor: MD_Distributor: Distributor contact: CI_ResponsibleParty: Organisation name: Character string: NOAA National Oceanographic Data Center Contact information: CI_Contact: Phone: CI_Telephone: Voice: Character string: 301-713-3277 Facsimile: Character string: 301-713-3302 Address: CI_Address: Delivery point: Character string: NOAA/NESDIS E/OC1 Delivery point: Character string: SSMC 3, 4th floor Delivery point: Character string: 1315 East West Hwy City: Character string: Silver Spring Administrative area: Character string: Maryland Postal code: Character string: 20910-3282 Country: Character string: U.S.A. Electronic mail address: Character string: NODC.Services@noaa.gov Hours of service: Character string: 8:30-6:00 PM, EST Role: CI_RoleCode: distributor Distribution order process: MD_StandardOrderProcess: Fees: Character string: None for direct download. Additional fees may apply for custom media orders. Ordering instructions: Character string: Data may be searched and downloaded freely at the NODC through NODC Ocean Archive System and the NODC Geoportal, or contact NODC User Services for custom orders. Datasets archived a the NODC are assigned a unique 7-digit NODC Acession Number. NODC accession numbers may be used to identify datasets when contacting the NODC for custom orders. The NODC provides ftp, http and OPeNDAP downloading methods for public users. The NODC would appreciate acknowledgement for data and products obtained through the data center. Distributor format: MD_Format: Name: Character string: HDF-4 SDS Version: Character string: 2012 Specification: Character string: HDF-4 Scientific Data Sets (SDS) model. File decompression technique: Character string: The HDF4-SDS format is extremely useful for large datasets, as it permits internal metadata tags, inclusion of multiple data layers, and perhaps most importantly an internal compression scheme known as tiling, which breaks the large data set into individually compressed pieces. Distributor transfer options: MD_DigitalTransferOptions: Online: CI_OnlineResource: Linkage: URL: http://data.nodc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/iso?id=gov.noaa.nodc:0099041 Function: CI_OnLineFunctionCode: download Distributor transfer options: MD_DigitalTransferOptions: Online: CI_OnlineResource: Linkage: URL: ftp://data.nodc.noaa.gov/ Function: CI_OnLineFunctionCode: download Distributor transfer options: MD_DigitalTransferOptions: Online: CI_OnlineResource: Linkage: URL: http://data.nodc.noaa.gov/ Function: CI_OnLineFunctionCode: download Distributor transfer options: MD_DigitalTransferOptions: Online: CI_OnlineResource: Linkage: URL: http://data.nodc.noaa.gov/opendap/ Function: CI_OnLineFunctionCode: download Distributor transfer options: MD_DigitalTransferOptions: Online: CI_OnlineResource: Linkage: URL: http://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0099041 Function: CI_OnLineFunctionCode: download Distributor: MD_Distributor: Distributor contact: CI_ResponsibleParty: Organisation name: Character string: DOC/NOAA/CLASS > Comprehensive Large Array-data Stewardship System, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Contact information: CI_Contact: Phone: CI_Telephone: Voice: Character string: (828) 271-4850 x3183 Facsimile: Character string: (828) 271-4328 Address: CI_Address: Delivery point: Character string: CLASS, 151 Patton Avenue City: Character string: Asheville Administrative area: Character string: NC Postal code: Character string: 28801-5001 Country: Character string: USA Electronic mail address: Character string: info@class.noaa.gov Hours of service: Character string: 9:00 - 5:00 EST Contact instructions: Character string: Phone/E-mail/letter. CLASS provides data free of charge. Anyone can search the CLASS catalog and view search results through CLASS's World Wide Web (WWW) site. Users who wish to order data are required to register with their names and email addresses. CLASS distributes data to those users via FTP services. Role: CI_RoleCode: distributor Distribution order process: MD_StandardOrderProcess: Fees: Character string: Electronic download (FTP) of the data is free. There is a fee for copies of data on physical media. Optical disks are $25.00 per unit and magnetic tape is $100 per unit. Price does not include additional service and handling costs. Planned available date and time: Date and time: 2003-11-10T00:00:00 Turnaround: Character string: Delivery of physical media occurs within 1 to 2 weeks, but may take longer for large orders. Distributor format: MD_Format: Name: Character string: HDF Version: Character string: 4.2 r3 I Specification: Character string: FORMAT INFO CONTENT: Each file contains multiple data variables stored using the HDF Scientific Data Sets (SDS) model. File name format is - * Year_Julian-Day_Start-Time_Spacecraft-Unique-ID_CoastWatch-Region-Code.File-Format (e.g. 2006_234_0019_n18_hr.hdf)For more details go to Help pages at http://www.class.noaa.gov. File decompression technique: Character string: Mapped HDF files may be downloaded and viewed using the CoastWatch Utilities software, which includes the graphical CoastWatch Data Analysis Tool (CDAT), available from: http://coastwatch.noaa.gov/cw_cwfv3.html. Distributor transfer options: MD_DigitalTransferOptions: Online: CI_OnlineResource: Linkage: URL: http://www.class.noaa.gov/nsaa/products/search?datatype_family=CW_REGION Protocol: Character string: http Application profile: Character string: web browser Name: Character string: CLASS: CoastWatch Regions in HDF format Description: Character string: Download options for CoastWatch Regions in HDF format datasets. Function: CI_OnLineFunctionCode: download Distributor transfer options: MD_DigitalTransferOptions: Offline: MD_Medium: Name: MD_MediumNameCode: cdRom Distributor transfer options: MD_DigitalTransferOptions: Offline: MD_Medium: Name: MD_MediumNameCode: dvd Distributor transfer options: MD_DigitalTransferOptions: Offline: MD_Medium: Medium note: Character string: IBM LTO Tape Data quality information: DQ_DataQuality: Scope: #datasetScope Report: DQ_QuantitativeAttributeAccuracy: Name of measure: Character string: FGDC Attribute Accuracy Report Result: DQ_QuantitativeResult: Value unit: inapplicable Value: inapplicable Value: Record: Character string: SST values are accurate to within 0.2 degrees C. Report: DQ_ConceptualConsistency: Name of measure: Character string: FGDC Logical Consistency Report Result: DQ_QuantitativeResult: Value unit: inapplicable Value: inapplicable Value: Record: Character string: NOAA CoastWatch performs validation of the data through buoy match-ups or other in situ measurements for adjusting processing algorithms as necessary. Report: DQ_AbsoluteExternalPositionalAccuracy: Name of measure: Character string: FGDC Horizontal Positional Accuracy Report Result: DQ_QuantitativeResult: Value unit: inapplicable Value: inapplicable Value: Record: Character string: 1 km accuracy in cloud-free areas. Data quality information: DQ_DataQuality: Scope: DQ_Scope: Hierarchy level: MD_ScopeCode: dataset Extent: #boundingExtent Level description: MD_ScopeDescription: Dataset set: Character string: gov.noaa.class:CW_REGION Report: DQ_QuantitativeAttributeAccuracy: Result: QE_CoverageResult: Spatial representation type: MD_SpatialRepresentationTypeCode: grid Result file: missing Result spatial representation: #seriesSpatialRepresentation Result content description: MI_CoverageDescription: Attribute description: Record type: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/getRecordDescription/gov.noaa.class:CW_REGION Content type: MD_CoverageContentTypeCode: qualityInformation Dimension: MD_Band: Sequence identifier: Member name: Name: Character string: sat_zenith Attribute type: Type name: Name: Character string: Real Descriptor: Character string: Satellite zenith angle. Maximum value: Real: 90 Minimum value: Real: 0 Value unit: http://TBD_UnitsDictionary#Degrees Scale factor: Real: 1 Result format: unknown Report: DQ_QuantitativeAttributeAccuracy: Result: QE_CoverageResult: Spatial representation type: MD_SpatialRepresentationTypeCode: grid Result file: missing Result spatial representation: #seriesSpatialRepresentation Result content description: MI_CoverageDescription: Attribute description: Record type: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/getRecordDescription/gov.noaa.class:CW_REGION Content type: MD_CoverageContentTypeCode: qualityInformation Dimension: MD_Band: Sequence identifier: Member name: Name: Character string: sun_zenith Attribute type: Type name: Name: Character string: Real Descriptor: Character string: Solar zenith angle. Maximum value: Real: 180 Minimum value: Real: 0 Value unit: http://TBD_UnitsDictionary#Degrees Scale factor: Real: 1 Result format: unknown Report: DQ_QuantitativeAttributeAccuracy: Result: QE_CoverageResult: Spatial representation type: MD_SpatialRepresentationTypeCode: grid Result file: missing Result spatial representation: #seriesSpatialRepresentation Result content description: MI_CoverageDescription: Attribute description: Record type: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/getRecordDescription/gov.noaa.class:CW_REGION Content type: MD_CoverageContentTypeCode: qualityInformation Dimension: MD_Band: Sequence identifier: Member name: Name: Character string: rel_azimuth Attribute type: Type name: Name: Character string: Real Descriptor: Character string: Relative azimuth angle. Maximum value: Real: 180 Minimum value: Real: 0 Value unit: http://TBD_UnitsDictionary#Degrees Scale factor: Real: 1 Result format: unknown Lineage: LI_Lineage: Process step: LE_ProcessStep: Description: Character string: * Ingest and calibrate: ingests raw satellite data to TeraScan data format.* Automatic navigation: corrects an ingested AVHRR pass file. Date and time: inapplicable Processor: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: John F. Sapper Organisation name: Character string: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/OSDPD > Office of Satellite Data Processing and Distribution, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Position name: Character string: physical scientist Contact information: CI_Contact: Phone: CI_Telephone: Voice: Character string: (301) 763-8142 x 103 Address: CI_Address: Delivery point: Character string: World Weather Building, Room 510, 5200 Auth Road City: Character string: Camp Springs Administrative area: Character string: MD Postal code: Character string: 20746 Country: Character string: USA Electronic mail address: Character string: John.Sapper@noaa.gov Hours of service: Character string: 7:00 AM-3:30 PM Eastern Role: CI_RoleCode: processor Source: #src_HRPT_AVHRR_L0 Source: #src_HRPT_AVHRR_L1B Processing information: LE_Processing: Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: Processing Information: CoastWatch Swath and Regions Software reference: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: TeraScan Overview Description Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 2002-09-10 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: publication Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Organisation name: Character string: Terrenus Earth Sciences Contact information: CI_Contact: Online resource: CI_OnlineResource: Linkage: URL: http://psbcw1.nesdis.noaa.gov/terascan/home_basic/what_is_terascan.html Name: Character string: What is TeraScan? Description: Character string: Details the TeraScan system, including the hardware, software, data format, functions, data, modules, documentation, etc. Function: CI_OnLineFunctionCode: information Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Procedure description: Character string: TeraScan software is based on the UNIX operating system. SeaSpace supports TeraScan on Sun Solaris or Redhat Linux platforms. Full description of workflow at http://psbcw1.nesdis.noaa.gov/ctera/index.cgi?section=design Algorithm: LE_Algorithm: Citation: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: Algorithm Information: CoastWatch Swath and Regions Date: inapplicable Description: Character string: * calculate sea surface temperatures (http://psbcw1.nesdis.noaa.gov/ctera/index.cgi?section=manual&page=cwsst) * calculate cloud mask (http://psbcw1.nesdis.noaa.gov/ctera/index.cgi?section=manual&page=cwcloud) * Calculate angles http://psbcw1.nesdis.noaa.gov/terascan/man1/angles.html Output: #src_TDF_Temp Process step: LE_ProcessStep: Description: Character string: * Calculate SST and cloud mask: NOAA/NESDIS SST and cloud mask routines are used for an ingested AVHRR pass file. The required angles are precalculated to help speed the processing.* Calculate angles: Computes satellite and solar viewing angles. Date and time: inapplicable Processor: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: John F. Sapper Organisation name: Character string: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/OSDPD > Office of Satellite Data Processing and Distribution, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Position name: Character string: physical scientist Contact information: CI_Contact: Phone: CI_Telephone: Voice: Character string: (301) 763-8142 x 103 Address: CI_Address: Delivery point: Character string: World Weather Building, Room 510, 5200 Auth Road City: Character string: Camp Springs Administrative area: Character string: MD Postal code: Character string: 20746 Country: Character string: USA Electronic mail address: Character string: John.Sapper@noaa.gov Hours of service: Character string: 7:00 AM-3:30 PM Eastern Role: CI_RoleCode: processor Source: #src_TDF_Temp Processing information: LE_Processing: Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: Processing Information: CoastWatch Swath and Regions Software reference: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: TeraScan Overview Description Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 2002-09-10 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: publication Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Organisation name: Character string: Terrenus Earth Sciences Contact information: CI_Contact: Online resource: CI_OnlineResource: Linkage: URL: http://psbcw1.nesdis.noaa.gov/terascan/home_basic/what_is_terascan.html Name: Character string: What is TeraScan? Description: Character string: Details the TeraScan system, including the hardware, software, data format, functions, data, modules, documentation, etc. Function: CI_OnLineFunctionCode: information Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Procedure description: Character string: TeraScan software is based on the UNIX operating system. SeaSpace supports TeraScan on Sun Solaris or Redhat Linux platforms. Full description of workflow at http://psbcw1.nesdis.noaa.gov/ctera/index.cgi?section=design Algorithm: LE_Algorithm: Citation: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: Algorithm Information: CoastWatch Swath and Regions Date: inapplicable Description: Character string: * calculate sea surface temperatures (http://psbcw1.nesdis.noaa.gov/ctera/index.cgi?section=manual&page=cwsst) * calculate cloud mask (http://psbcw1.nesdis.noaa.gov/ctera/index.cgi?section=manual&page=cwcloud) * Calculate angles http://psbcw1.nesdis.noaa.gov/terascan/man1/angles.html Output: #src_SST_Cloud_TDF Process step: LE_ProcessStep: Description: Character string: Register to CoastWatch regions and map projections. Date and time: inapplicable Processor: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: John F. Sapper Organisation name: Character string: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/OSDPD > Office of Satellite Data Processing and Distribution, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Position name: Character string: physical scientist Contact information: CI_Contact: Phone: CI_Telephone: Voice: Character string: (301) 763-8142 x 103 Address: CI_Address: Delivery point: Character string: World Weather Building, Room 510, 5200 Auth Road City: Character string: Camp Springs Administrative area: Character string: MD Postal code: Character string: 20746 Country: Character string: USA Electronic mail address: Character string: John.Sapper@noaa.gov Hours of service: Character string: 7:00 AM-3:30 PM Eastern Role: CI_RoleCode: processor Source: #src_SST_Cloud_TDF Processing information: LE_Processing: Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: Processing Information: CoastWatch Swath and Regions Software reference: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: TeraScan Overview Description Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 2002-09-10 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: publication Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Organisation name: Character string: Terrenus Earth Sciences Contact information: CI_Contact: Online resource: CI_OnlineResource: Linkage: URL: http://psbcw1.nesdis.noaa.gov/terascan/home_basic/what_is_terascan.html Name: Character string: What is TeraScan? Description: Character string: Details the TeraScan system, including the hardware, software, data format, functions, data, modules, documentation, etc. Function: CI_OnLineFunctionCode: information Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Procedure description: Character string: TeraScan software is based on the UNIX operating system. SeaSpace supports TeraScan on Sun Solaris or Redhat Linux platforms. Full description of workflow at http://psbcw1.nesdis.noaa.gov/ctera/index.cgi?section=design Algorithm: LE_Algorithm: Citation: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: Algorithm Information: CoastWatch Swath and Regions Date: inapplicable Description: Character string: * calculate sea surface temperatures (http://psbcw1.nesdis.noaa.gov/ctera/index.cgi?section=manual&page=cwsst) * calculate cloud mask (http://psbcw1.nesdis.noaa.gov/ctera/index.cgi?section=manual&page=cwcloud) * Calculate angles http://psbcw1.nesdis.noaa.gov/terascan/man1/angles.html Output: #src_CW_Regions_TDF Process step: LE_ProcessStep: Description: Character string: Create CoastWatch HDF files: Export Terascan datasets to Hierarchical Data Format (HDF). Date and time: inapplicable Processor: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: John F. Sapper Organisation name: Character string: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/OSDPD > Office of Satellite Data Processing and Distribution, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Position name: Character string: physical scientist Contact information: CI_Contact: Phone: CI_Telephone: Voice: Character string: (301) 763-8142 x 103 Address: CI_Address: Delivery point: Character string: World Weather Building, Room 510, 5200 Auth Road City: Character string: Camp Springs Administrative area: Character string: MD Postal code: Character string: 20746 Country: Character string: USA Electronic mail address: Character string: John.Sapper@noaa.gov Hours of service: Character string: 7:00 AM-3:30 PM Eastern Role: CI_RoleCode: processor Source: #src_CW_Regions_TDF Source: #src_SST_Cloud_TDF Processing information: LE_Processing: Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: Processing Information: CoastWatch Swath and Regions Software reference: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: TeraScan Overview Description Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 2002-09-10 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: publication Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Organisation name: Character string: Terrenus Earth Sciences Contact information: CI_Contact: Online resource: CI_OnlineResource: Linkage: URL: http://psbcw1.nesdis.noaa.gov/terascan/home_basic/what_is_terascan.html Name: Character string: What is TeraScan? Description: Character string: Details the TeraScan system, including the hardware, software, data format, functions, data, modules, documentation, etc. Function: CI_OnLineFunctionCode: information Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Procedure description: Character string: TeraScan software is based on the UNIX operating system. SeaSpace supports TeraScan on Sun Solaris or Redhat Linux platforms. Full description of workflow at http://psbcw1.nesdis.noaa.gov/ctera/index.cgi?section=design Algorithm: LE_Algorithm: Citation: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: Algorithm Information: CoastWatch Swath and Regions Date: inapplicable Description: Character string: * calculate sea surface temperatures (http://psbcw1.nesdis.noaa.gov/ctera/index.cgi?section=manual&page=cwsst) * calculate cloud mask (http://psbcw1.nesdis.noaa.gov/ctera/index.cgi?section=manual&page=cwcloud) * Calculate angles http://psbcw1.nesdis.noaa.gov/terascan/man1/angles.html Output: #src_gov.noaa.class_CW_REGION Source: LI_Source: Description: Character string: HRPT is a live data feed as the spacecraft goes over a receiving stations. Source citation: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: AVHRR High Resolution Picture Transmission (HRPT) Date: CI_Date: Date: inapplicable Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: publication Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: gov.noaa.ngdc.fgdccitation:24871 Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Organisation name: Character string: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS > National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Contact information: CI_Contact: Phone: CI_Telephone: Voice: Character string: 301-713-3578 Facsimile: Character string: 301-713-1249 Address: CI_Address: Delivery point: Character string: 1335 East-West Highway, SSMC1, 8th Floor City: Character string: Silver Spring Administrative area: Character string: MD Postal code: Character string: 20910 Country: Character string: USA Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Source extent: EX_Extent: Temporal element: EX_TemporalExtent: Extent: Time period: Begin position: 2003-11-10 End position: now Source step: #ps_249 Source: LI_Source: Description: Character string: Level 0 HRPT AVHRR satellite data from Global Imaging in Honolulu and TeraScan in Miami. Source citation: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: Level 0 AVHRR High Resolution Picture Transmission Date: CI_Date: Date: inapplicable Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: publication Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: gov.noaa.ngdc.fgdccitation:47603 Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: unknown Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Source extent: EX_Extent: Temporal element: EX_TemporalExtent: Extent: Time period: Begin position: 2003-11-10 End position: now Source step: #ps_249 Source: LI_Source: Description: Character string: Temporary files in TeraScan Data Format used for processing AVHRR satellite data. Source citation: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: Temporary Satellite Files in TeraScan Data Format Date: CI_Date: Date: inapplicable Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: publication Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: gov.noaa.ngdc.fgdccitation:47604 Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Organisation name: Character string: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/CWP > CoastWatch Program, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Contact information: CI_Contact: Phone: CI_Telephone: Voice: Character string: 301.763.8184 Address: CI_Address: Delivery point: Character string: NOAA CoastWatch 5200 Auth Road, Rm 601 City: Character string: Camp Springs Administrative area: Character string: MD Postal code: Character string: 20746 Country: Character string: USA Electronic mail address: Character string: coastwatch.info@noaa.gov Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Source extent: EX_Extent: Temporal element: EX_TemporalExtent: Extent: Time period: Begin position: 2003-11-10 End position: now Source step: #ps_249 Source step: #ps_250 Source: LI_Source: Description: Character string: SST and cloud swaths in TDF for processing. Source citation: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: SST and Cloud Swath Products in TDF format Date: CI_Date: Date: inapplicable Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: publication Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: gov.noaa.ngdc.fgdccitation:47605 Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: unknown Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Source extent: EX_Extent: Temporal element: EX_TemporalExtent: Extent: Time period: Begin position: 2003-11-10 End position: now Source step: #ps_250 Source step: #ps_251 Source step: #ps_252 Source: LI_Source: Description: Character string: SST and Clouds in regions in TeraScan Data Format used for processing to HDF. Source citation: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: CoastWatch Regions TeraScan Data Format Date: CI_Date: Date: inapplicable Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: publication Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: gov.noaa.ngdc.fgdccitation:47672 Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Organisation name: Character string: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/CWP > CoastWatch Program, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Contact information: CI_Contact: Phone: CI_Telephone: Voice: Character string: 301.763.8184 Address: CI_Address: Delivery point: Character string: NOAA CoastWatch 5200 Auth Road, Rm 601 City: Character string: Camp Springs Administrative area: Character string: MD Postal code: Character string: 20746 Country: Character string: USA Electronic mail address: Character string: coastwatch.info@noaa.gov Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Source extent: EX_Extent: Temporal element: EX_TemporalExtent: Extent: Time period: Begin position: 2003-11-10 End position: now Source step: #ps_251 Source step: #ps_252 Source: LI_Source: Description: Character string: Output dataset product. Source citation: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: CoastWatch Regions in HDF Format Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 2003-11-10 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: publication Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: gov.noaa.ngdc.fgdccitation:22422 Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Organisation name: Character string: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/OSDPD > Office of Satellite Data Processing and Distribution, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Contact information: CI_Contact: Phone: CI_Telephone: Voice: Character string: 301-817-4435 Facsimile: Character string: 301-457-5184 Address: CI_Address: Delivery point: Character string: NOAA NESDIS OSDPD E/SP, RM 1069, FB4 5200 Auth Road City: Character string: Suitland Administrative area: Character string: MD Postal code: Character string: 20746-4304 Country: Character string: USA Electronic mail address: Character string: nesdis.osdpd.web.admins@noaa.gov Hours of service: Character string: 9-5, EST Contact instructions: Character string: Phone/E-mail/letter during regular business hours Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Organisation name: Character string: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/CWP > CoastWatch Program, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Contact information: CI_Contact: Phone: CI_Telephone: Voice: Character string: 301.763.8184 Address: CI_Address: Delivery point: Character string: NOAA CoastWatch 5200 Auth Road, Rm 601 City: Character string: Camp Springs Administrative area: Character string: MD Postal code: Character string: 20746 Country: Character string: USA Electronic mail address: Character string: coastwatch.info@noaa.gov Role: CI_RoleCode: publisher Source extent: EX_Extent: Temporal element: EX_TemporalExtent: Extent: Time period: Begin position: 2003-11-10 End position: now Data quality information: DQ_DataQuality: Scope: DQ_Scope: Hierarchy level: MD_ScopeCode: dataset Extent: EX_Extent: Temporal element: EX_TemporalExtent: Extent: Time period: Begin position: 19781013 End position: now Level description: MD_ScopeDescription: Dataset set: Character string: POES > Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellites Lineage: LI_Lineage: Process step: LI_ProcessStep: Description: Character string: Mission Start Date and time: Date and time: 1978-10-13T00:00:00 Process step: LI_ProcessStep: Description: Character string: Mission Completion Date and time: unknown Process step: LI_ProcessStep: Description: Character string: TIROS-N launched. Instruments: AVHRR and TOVS. Date and time: Date and time: 1978-10-13T00:00:00 Process step: LI_ProcessStep: Description: Character string: TIROS-N began operations Date and time: Date and time: 1978-10-19T00:00:00 Process step: LI_ProcessStep: Description: Character string: TIROS-N ended operations Date and time: Date and time: 1980-01-30T00:00:00 Process step: LI_ProcessStep: Description: Character string: NOAA-6 launched. Date and time: Date and time: 1979-06-27T00:00:00 Process step: LI_ProcessStep: Description: Character string: NOAA-6 ended operations Date and time: Date and time: 1986-11-16T00:00:00 Process step: LI_ProcessStep: Description: Character string: NOAA-7 launched Date and time: Date and time: 1981-06-23T00:00:00 Process step: LI_ProcessStep: Description: Character string: NOAA 7 began operations Date and time: Date and time: 1981-08-19T00:00:00 Process step: LI_ProcessStep: Description: Character string: NOAA-7 ended operations Date and time: Date and time: 1986-06-07T00:00:00 Process step: LI_ProcessStep: Description: Character string: NOAA-8 (NOAA-E) launched. Date and time: Date and time: 1983-03-28T00:00:00 Process step: LI_ProcessStep: Description: Character string: NOAA-8 began operations Date and time: Date and time: 1983-06-20T00:00:00 Process step: LI_ProcessStep: Description: Character string: NOAA-8 ended operations Date and time: Date and time: 1985-10-31T00:00:00 Process step: LI_ProcessStep: Description: Character string: NOAA-9 (NOAA-F) launched. Date and time: Date and time: 1984-12-12T00:00:00 Process step: LI_ProcessStep: Description: Character string: NOAA-9 began operations Date and time: Date and time: 1985-02-25T00:00:00 Process step: LI_ProcessStep: Description: Character string: NOAA-9 ended operations Date and time: Date and time: 1988-11-07T00:00:00 Process step: LI_ProcessStep: Description: Character string: NOAA-10 (NOAA-G) launched. Date and time: Date and time: 1986-09-17T00:00:00 Process step: LI_ProcessStep: Description: Character string: NOAA-10 began operations Date and time: Date and time: 1986-11-17T00:00:00 Process step: LI_ProcessStep: Description: Character string: NOAA-10 ended operations Date and time: Date and time: 1991-09-16T00:00:00 Process step: LI_ProcessStep: Description: Character string: NOAA-11 (NOAA-H) launched. Date and time: Date and time: 1988-09-24T00:00:00 Process step: LI_ProcessStep: Description: Character string: NOAA-11 began operations Date and time: Date and time: 1988-11-08T00:00:00 Process step: LI_ProcessStep: Description: Character string: NOAA-11 ended operations Date and time: Date and time: 1995-04-11T00:00:00 Process step: LI_ProcessStep: Description: Character string: NOAA-12 (NOAA-D) launched and began operations. Instruments: AVHRR/2, DCS/2, HIRS/2, MSU, SEM (POES)/2. Date and time: Date and time: 1991-05-14T00:00:00 Process step: LI_ProcessStep: Description: Character string: NOAA-12 ended operations. Date and time: Date and time: 1998-12-14T00:00:00 Process step: LI_ProcessStep: Description: Character string: NOAA-12 decommissioned. Date and time: Date and time: 2007-08-10T00:00:00 Process step: LI_ProcessStep: Description: Character string: NOAA-13 (NOAA-I) launched and began operations. Date and time: Date and time: 1993-08-09T00:00:00 Process step: LI_ProcessStep: Description: Character string: NOAA-13 ended operations. Date and time: Date and time: 1993-08-21T00:00:00 Process step: LI_ProcessStep: Description: Character string: NOAA-14 (NOAA-J) launched. Instruments: AVHRR/2, DCS/2, HIRS/2, MSU, SARSAT, SBUV/2, SEM/1 and SSU. Date and time: Date and time: 1994-12-30T00:00:00 Process step: LI_ProcessStep: Description: Character string: NOAA-14 began operations. Date and time: Date and time: 1995-04-11T00:00:00 Process step: LI_ProcessStep: Description: Character string: NOAA-14 decommissioned. Date and time: Date and time: 2007-05-23T00:00:00 Process step: LI_ProcessStep: Description: Character string: NOAA-15 (NOAA-K) launched. Instruments: AMSU-A1, AMSU-A2, AMSU-B, AVHRR/3, DCS/2, HIRS/3, SARSAT and SEM/2. Date and time: Date and time: 1998-05-13T00:00:00 Process step: LI_ProcessStep: Description: Character string: NOAA-15 began operations. Date and time: Date and time: 1998-12-15T00:00:00 Process step: LI_ProcessStep: Description: Character string: NOAA-16 (NOAA-L) launched. Instruments: AMSU-A1, AMSU-A2, AMSU-B, AVHRR/3, HIRS/3, SARSAT, SBUV/2 and SEM/2. Date and time: Date and time: 2000-09-21T00:00:00 Process step: LI_ProcessStep: Description: Character string: NOAA-16 began operations. Date and time: Date and time: 2001-03-20T00:00:00 Process step: LI_ProcessStep: Description: Character string: NOAA-17 (NOAA-M) launched. Instruments: AMSU-A1, AMSU-A2, AMSU-B, AVHRR/3, DCS/2, HIRS/3, SARSAT, SBUV/2 and SEM/2. Date and time: Date and time: 2002-06-24T00:00:00 Process step: LI_ProcessStep: Description: Character string: NOAA-17 began operations. Date and time: Date and time: 2002-10-15T00:00:00 Process step: LI_ProcessStep: Description: Character string: NOAA-18 (NOAA-N) launched. Instruments: AMSU-A1, AMSU-A2, AVHRR/3, DCS/2, HIRS/4, MHS, SARSAT, SBUV/2 and SEM/2. Date and time: Date and time: 2005-05-20T00:00:00 Process step: LI_ProcessStep: Description: Character string: NOAA-18 began operations. Date and time: Date and time: 2005-08-30T00:00:00 Process step: LI_ProcessStep: Description: Character string: METOP-A launched. Instruments: A-DCS, AMSU-A, ASCAT, AVHRR/3, GOME-2, GRAS, HIRS/4, IASI, MHS, SARP-3, SARR and SEM-2. Date and time: Date and time: 2006-10-19T00:00:00 Process step: LI_ProcessStep: Description: Character string: METOP-A operational. Date and time: Date and time: 2007-05-21T00:00:00 Process step: LI_ProcessStep: Description: Character string: NOAA-19 (NOAA-N Prime) launched. Instruments: A-DCS, AMSU-A1, AMSU-A2, AVHRR/3, DDR, HIRS/4, MHS, SAR, SBUV/2, SEM-2 Date and time: Date and time: 2009-02-06T00:00:00 Process step: LI_ProcessStep: Description: Character string: NOAA-19 operational Date and time: Date and time: 2009-06-02T00:00:00 Metadata constraints: MD_LegalConstraints: Use limitation: Character string: Disclaimer - While every effort has been made to ensure that these data are accurate and reliable within the limits of the current state of the art, NOAA cannot assume liability for any damages caused by any errors or omissions in the data, nor as a result of the failure of the data to function on a particular system. NOAA makes no warranty, expressed or implied, nor does the fact of distribution constitute such a warranty. Metadata maintenance: MD_MaintenanceInformation: Maintenance and update frequency: MD_MaintenanceFrequencyCode: asNeeded Date of next update: Date: 20110415 Maintenance note: Character string: This record was translated from FGDC in the NMMR on 2009-12-29 19:47:19.0. Last Review: 20130116. Acquisition information: MI_AcquisitionInformation: Instrument: MI_Instrument: Citation: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: The Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 1997 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: publication Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: gov.noaa.ngdc.fgdccitation:26722 Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Cracknell, Arthur P. Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Taylor & Francis Role: CI_RoleCode: publisher Citation: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: NOAA KLM User's Guide, Section 3.1, Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer/3 (AVHRR/3) Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 2000-09 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: publication Edition: Character string: September 2000 Revision Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: gov.noaa.ngdc.fgdccitation:26723 Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Goodrum, Geoffrey (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Kidwell, Katherine B. (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Winston, Wayne (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC > National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Role: CI_RoleCode: publisher Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: AVHRR/3 > Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer/3 Type: Character string: imager Description: Character string: Instrument Type: imager, Operational Mode: cross-track, Collection Type: whiskbroom, Other Information: Instrument: MI_Instrument: Citation: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: The Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 1997 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: publication Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: gov.noaa.ngdc.fgdccitation:26722 Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Cracknell, Arthur P. Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Taylor & Francis Role: CI_RoleCode: publisher Citation: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: NOAA Polar Orbiter Data User's Guide, Section 3.0, AVHRR Level 1b Data Base Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 1998-11 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: publication Edition: Character string: Revision Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: gov.noaa.ngdc.fgdccitation:23475 Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Kidwell, Katherine B. (ed. and comp.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC > National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Role: CI_RoleCode: publisher Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: AVHRR/2 > Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer/2 Type: Character string: imager Description: Character string: Instrument Type: imager, Operational Mode: cross-track, Collection Type: whiskbroom, Other Information: Operation: MI_Operation: Description: Character string: The polar orbiting satellites are able to collect global data on a daily basis for a variety of land, ocean and atmospheric applications. Data from the POES series supports a broad range of environmental monitoring applications including weather analysis and forecasting, climate research and prediction, global sea surface temperature measurements, atmospheric soundings of temperature and humidity, ocean dynamics research, volcanic eruption monitoring, forest fire Identifier: MD_Identifier: Authority: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: NASA/Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 2007-04 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: revision Edition: Character string: Version 6.0.0.0.0 Edition date: Date: 2007-04 Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Organisation name: Character string: NASA/GSFC/SED/ESD/GCDC/GCMD > Global Change Master Directory, Global Change Data Center, Earth Sciences Division, Science and Exploration Directorate, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Contact information: CI_Contact: Online resource: CI_OnlineResource: Linkage: URL: http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/Resources/valids/archives/keyword_list.html Protocol: Character string: http Application profile: Character string: web browser Name: Character string: GCMD Keywords, Version 6.0.0.0.0 Description: Character string: Thesuarus for earth science keywords and associated directories hosted and maintained by NASA. Function: CI_OnLineFunctionCode: information Role: CI_RoleCode: resourceProvider Code: Character string: POES > Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellites Status: MD_ProgressCode: onGoing Type: MI_OperationTypeCode: real Parent operation: inapplicable Platform: MI_Platform: Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: NOAA-16 > National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration-16 Description: Character string: NOAA-16 (L) - Launched: September 21, 2000. Instruments: AVHRR/3, TOVS (HIRS/3, AMSU-A1, AMSU-A2, AMSU-B), SBUV/2, SEM/2, SARSAT (SARR, SARP/2) and DCS/2. Operational Dates: March 20, 2001 to Present. Operational Status: PM Secondary. Sponsor: CI_ResponsibleParty: Organisation name: Character string: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/OSO > Office of Satellite Operations, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Contact information: CI_Contact: Address: CI_Address: Delivery point: Character string: NOAA / NESDIS Office of Satellite Operations, NSOF Bldg. 4231 Suitland Road City: Character string: Suitland Administrative area: Character string: MD Postal code: Character string: 20746-4304 Country: Character string: USA Role: CI_RoleCode: sponsor Sponsor: CI_ResponsibleParty: Organisation name: Character string: NASA/GSFC > Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Contact information: CI_Contact: Address: CI_Address: Delivery point: Character string: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center City: Character string: Greenbelt Administrative area: Character string: MD Postal code: Character string: 20771 Country: Character string: USA Electronic mail address: Character string: daacuso@daac.gsfc.nasa.gov Hours of service: Character string: 9 AM to 5 PM ET Role: CI_RoleCode: sponsor Instrument: MI_Instrument: Citation: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: The Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 1997 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: publication Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: gov.noaa.ngdc.fgdccitation:26722 Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Cracknell, Arthur P. Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Taylor & Francis Role: CI_RoleCode: publisher Citation: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: NOAA KLM User's Guide, Section 3.1, Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer/3 (AVHRR/3) Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 2000-09 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: publication Edition: Character string: September 2000 Revision Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: gov.noaa.ngdc.fgdccitation:26723 Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Goodrum, Geoffrey (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Kidwell, Katherine B. (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Winston, Wayne (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC > National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Role: CI_RoleCode: publisher Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: AVHRR/3 > Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer/3 Type: Character string: imager Description: Character string: Instrument Type: imager, Operational Mode: cross-track, Collection Type: whiskbroom, Other Information: Instrument: MI_Instrument: Citation: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: NOAA KLM User's Guide, Section 3.2.1, HIRS/3 Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 2000-09 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: publication Edition: Character string: revision Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: gov.noaa.ngdc.fgdccitation:25123 Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Goodrum, Geoffrey (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Kidwell, Kathy (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Winston, Wayne (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC > National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Role: CI_RoleCode: publisher Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: HIRS/3 > High Resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder/3 Type: Character string: sounder Description: Character string: Instrument Type: sounder, Operational Mode: cross-track, Collection Type: continuous scan, Other Information: TBD Instrument: MI_Instrument: Citation: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: NOAA KLM User's Guide, Section 3.3, Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A (AMSU-A) Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 2000-09 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: publication Edition: Character string: Revision Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: gov.noaa.ngdc.fgdccitation:27040 Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Goodrum, Geoffrey (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Kidwell, Katherine B. (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Winston, Wayne (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS > National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service Role: CI_RoleCode: publisher Citation: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: ATOVS Level 1b Products Guide, AMSU-A Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 2004-09-08 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: publication Edition: Character string: issue 1.0 Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: gov.noaa.ngdc.fgdccitation:30494 Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Organisation name: Character string: EUMETSAT > European Meteorological Satellite Organisation Contact information: CI_Contact: Phone: CI_Telephone: Voice: Character string: +49(0)6151-807 7 Facsimile: Character string: +49(0)6151-807 555 Address: CI_Address: Delivery point: Character string: EUMETSAT Eumetsat Allee 1 City: Character string: Darmstadt Administrative area: Character string: N/A Postal code: Character string: D-64295 Country: Character string: Germany Contact instructions: Character string: For information, go to: http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/AboutEUMETSAT/Contact_Us/index.htm?l=en Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: AMSU-A > Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A Type: Character string: sounder and profiler Description: Character string: Instrument Type: sounder and profiler, Operational Mode: cross-track, Collection Type: stepped-line scanning, Other Information: AMSU-A is a 15-channel cross-track, stepped-line scanning, total power microwave radiometer. The instrument has an instantaneous field-of-view of 3.3 degrees at the half-power points providing a nominal spatial resolution at nadir of 48 km (29.8 mi). The antenna provides a cross-track scan, scanning +48.3 degrees (-48.3 degrees) from nadir with a total of 30 Earth fields-of-view per scan line. This instrument completes one scan every 8 seconds. Instrument: MI_Instrument: Citation: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: NOAA KLM User's Guide, Section 3.4, Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-B (AMSU-B) Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 2000-09 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: publication Edition: Character string: revision Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: gov.noaa.ngdc.fgdccitation:25182 Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Goodrum, Geoffrey (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Kidwell, Kathy B. (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Winston, Wayne (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC > National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Role: CI_RoleCode: publisher Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: AMSU-B > Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit B Type: Character string: sounder Description: Character string: Instrument Type: sounder, Operational Mode: cross-track, Collection Type: continuous line scanning, Other Information: AMSU-B is a 5 channel cross-track, continuous line scanning, total power microwave radiometer. The instrument has an instantaneous field-of-view of 1.1 degrees. Spatial resolution at nadir is nominally 16 km (9.94 mi). The antenna provides a cross-track scan, scanning +48.95 degrees (-48.95 degrees) from nadir with a total of 90 Earth fields-of-view per scan line. This instrument completes one scan every 8/3 seconds. Instrument: MI_Instrument: Citation: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: NOAA KLM User's Guide, Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet Spectral Radiometer (SBUV/2), Section 3.8 Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 2000-09 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: publication Edition: Character string: revision Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: gov.noaa.ngdc.fgdccitation:23315 Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Goodrum, Geoffrey (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Kidwell, Katherine B. (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Winston, Wayne (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS > National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Role: CI_RoleCode: publisher Citation: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: NOAA KLM User's Guide, Section 7.4, SBUV/2 Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 2000-09 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: publication Edition: Character string: revision Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: gov.noaa.ngdc.fgdccitation:23350 Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Goodrum, Geoffrey (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Kidwell, Katherine B. (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Winston, Wayne (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS > National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Role: CI_RoleCode: publisher Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: SBUV/2 > Solar Backscattered Ultraviolet Radiometer/2 Type: Character string: imager (scanning monochromator) and sounder (a cloud cover radiometer) Description: Character string: Instrument Type: imager (scanning monochromator) and sounder (a cloud cover radiometer), Operational Mode: Discrete mode, sweep mode or diffuser plate mode., Collection Type: nonspatial scanning, Other Information: The SBUV/2 is a nadir pointing nonspatial scanning instrument sensitive to radiation in the 160 nm to 400 nm ultraviolet spectrum. The SBUV/2 instruments on the TIROS-N satellites are designed to measure the total ozone in a vertical column beneath the satellite and its distribution with height in the atmosphere. The SBUV/2 contains a scanning double monochromator and a cloud cover radiometer (CCR) designed to measure ultraviolet (UV) spectral intensities. In its primary mode of operation, the monochromator measures solar radiation backscatter by the atmosphere in 12 discrete wavelength bands in the near-UV, ranging from 252.0 to 339.8 nm, each with a bandpass of 1.1 nm. The total-ozone algorithm uses the four longest wavelength bands (312.5, 317.5, 331.1, and 339.8 nm), whereas the profiling algorithm uses the shorter wavelengths. The cloud cover radiometer operates at 379 nm (i.e. outside the ozone absorption band) with a 3.0-nm bandpass and was designed to measure the reflectivity of the surface in the instantaneous field of view (IFOV). The SBUV/2 also makes periodic measurements of the solar flux by deploying a diffuser plate into the field of view (FOV) to reflect sunlight into the instrument. The monochromator and the cloud cover radiometer are mounted so that they look in the nadir direction with coincident nominal FOV's of 11.3 by 11.3 degrees. As the satellite moves in a Sun-synchronous orbit, the FOV traces 160-km wide paths on the ground. The earth rotates approximately 26 degrees during each orbit. The satellite footprint moves at a speed of about 6 km/sec. In discrete mode a set of 12 measurements, 1 for each discrete wavelength band, is taken every 32 seconds. The order of measurements is 252.0 to 339.8 and the integration time is 1.25 seconds per measurement. For each monochromator measurement there is a cloud cover radiometer measurement. 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Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS > National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service Role: CI_RoleCode: publisher Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: SEM-2 > Space Environment Monitor-2 Type: Character string: Particle sensor, magnetometer, and X-Ray sensor Description: Character string: The EPS accurately measures the number of particles over a broad energy range, including protons, electrons, and alpha particles. The magnetometer sensors can operate independently and simultaneously to measure the magnitude and direction of the Earth's geomagnetic field, detect variations in the magnetic field near the spacecraft, provide alerts of solar wind shocks or sudden impulses that impact the magnetosphere, and assess the level of geomagnetic activity. The second magnetometer sensor serves as a backup. The XRS is an x-ray telescope that observes and measures solar x-ray emissions in two ranges: one from 0.05 to 0.3 nanometers (nm) and the second from 0.1 to 0.8 nm. In real-time, it measures the intensity and duration of solar flares Platform: MI_Platform: Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: NOAA-19 > National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration-19 Description: Character string: NOAA-19 (N Prime) - Launch: February 6, 2009. Instruments: A-DCS, AVHRR/3, TOVS (HIRS/4, AMSU-A1, AMSU-A2, MHS), SBUV/2, SARSAT (SARR, SARP/3) SEM/2. Operational Dates: June 2, 2009 to Present. Operational Status: PM Primary. 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Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Taylor & Francis Role: CI_RoleCode: publisher Citation: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: NOAA KLM User's Guide, Section 3.1, Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer/3 (AVHRR/3) Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 2000-09 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: publication Edition: Character string: September 2000 Revision Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: gov.noaa.ngdc.fgdccitation:26723 Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Goodrum, Geoffrey (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Kidwell, Katherine B. (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Winston, Wayne (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC > National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Role: CI_RoleCode: publisher Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: AVHRR/3 > Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer/3 Type: Character string: imager Description: Character string: Instrument Type: imager, Operational Mode: cross-track, Collection Type: whiskbroom, Other Information: Instrument: MI_Instrument: Citation: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: NOAA KLM User's Guide, Section 3.2.2, HIRS/4 Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 2000-09 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: publication Edition: Character string: revision Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: gov.noaa.ngdc.fgdccitation:25125 Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Goodrum, Geoffrey (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC > National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Role: CI_RoleCode: publisher Citation: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: ATOVS Level 1b Products Guide, HIRS/4 Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 2004-09-08 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: publication Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: gov.noaa.ngdc.fgdccitation:30495 Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Organisation name: Character string: EUMETSAT > European Meteorological Satellite Organisation Contact information: CI_Contact: Phone: CI_Telephone: Voice: Character string: +49(0)6151-807 7 Facsimile: Character string: +49(0)6151-807 555 Address: CI_Address: Delivery point: Character string: EUMETSAT Eumetsat Allee 1 City: Character string: Darmstadt Administrative area: Character string: N/A Postal code: Character string: D-64295 Country: Character string: Germany Contact instructions: Character string: For information, go to: http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/AboutEUMETSAT/Contact_Us/index.htm?l=en Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: HIRS/4 > High Resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder/4 Type: Character string: sounder Description: Character string: Instrument Type: sounder, Operational Mode: cross-track, Collection Type: continuous scan, Other Information: The HIRS/4 instrument provides multispectral data from one visible channel (0.69 m), seven shortwave channels (3.7 to 4.6 m) and twelve longwave channels (6.7 to 15 m) using a single telescope and a rotating filter wheel containing twenty individual spectral filters. An elliptical scan mirror provides cross-track scanning of 56 steps in increments of 1.8 degrees. The mirror steps rapidly (<35 msec), then holds at each position while the optical radiation , passing through the 20 spectral filters, is sampled. This action takes place each 0.1 second. The instantaneous field of view for each channel is approximately 0.7 degrees which, from a spacecraft altitude of 833 km, encompasses a circular area of 10 km at nadir on the earth. Instrument: MI_Instrument: Citation: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: NOAA KLM User's Guide, Section 3.3, Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A (AMSU-A) Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 2000-09 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: publication Edition: Character string: Revision Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: gov.noaa.ngdc.fgdccitation:27040 Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Goodrum, Geoffrey (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Kidwell, Katherine B. (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Winston, Wayne (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS > National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service Role: CI_RoleCode: publisher Citation: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: ATOVS Level 1b Products Guide, AMSU-A Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 2004-09-08 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: publication Edition: Character string: issue 1.0 Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: gov.noaa.ngdc.fgdccitation:30494 Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Organisation name: Character string: EUMETSAT > European Meteorological Satellite Organisation Contact information: CI_Contact: Phone: CI_Telephone: Voice: Character string: +49(0)6151-807 7 Facsimile: Character string: +49(0)6151-807 555 Address: CI_Address: Delivery point: Character string: EUMETSAT Eumetsat Allee 1 City: Character string: Darmstadt Administrative area: Character string: N/A Postal code: Character string: D-64295 Country: Character string: Germany Contact instructions: Character string: For information, go to: http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/AboutEUMETSAT/Contact_Us/index.htm?l=en Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: AMSU-A > Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A Type: Character string: sounder and profiler Description: Character string: Instrument Type: sounder and profiler, Operational Mode: cross-track, Collection Type: stepped-line scanning, Other Information: AMSU-A is a 15-channel cross-track, stepped-line scanning, total power microwave radiometer. The instrument has an instantaneous field-of-view of 3.3 degrees at the half-power points providing a nominal spatial resolution at nadir of 48 km (29.8 mi). The antenna provides a cross-track scan, scanning +48.3 degrees (-48.3 degrees) from nadir with a total of 30 Earth fields-of-view per scan line. This instrument completes one scan every 8 seconds. Instrument: MI_Instrument: Citation: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: NOAA KLM User's Guide, Section 7.6, Microwave Humidity Sounder (MHS) Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 2000-09 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: publication Edition: Character string: Revision Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: gov.noaa.ngdc.fgdccitation:23469 Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Goodrum, Geoffrey (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Kidwell, Katherine B. (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Winston, Wayne (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC > National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Role: CI_RoleCode: publisher Citation: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: NOAA KLM User's Guide, Section 3.9, Microwave Humidity Sounder (MHS) Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 2000-09 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: publication Edition: Character string: revision Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: gov.noaa.ngdc.fgdccitation:25121 Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Goodrum, Geoffrey Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Kidwell, Kathy B. 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The instrument has an instantaneous field-of-view of 1.11 degrees. Spatial resolution at nadir is nominally 17 km (10.56 mi). The antenna provides a cross-track scan, scanning +50 degrees (-50 degrees) from nadir with a total of 90 Earth fields-of-view per scan line. This instrument completes one scan every 8/3 seconds. Instrument: MI_Instrument: Citation: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: NOAA KLM User's Guide, Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet Spectral Radiometer (SBUV/2), Section 3.8 Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 2000-09 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: publication Edition: Character string: revision Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: gov.noaa.ngdc.fgdccitation:23315 Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Goodrum, Geoffrey (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Kidwell, Katherine B. (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Winston, Wayne (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS > National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Role: CI_RoleCode: publisher Citation: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: NOAA KLM User's Guide, Section 7.4, SBUV/2 Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 2000-09 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: publication Edition: Character string: revision Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: gov.noaa.ngdc.fgdccitation:23350 Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Goodrum, Geoffrey (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Kidwell, Katherine B. (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Winston, Wayne (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS > National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Role: CI_RoleCode: publisher Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: SBUV/2 > Solar Backscattered Ultraviolet Radiometer/2 Type: Character string: imager (scanning monochromator) and sounder (a cloud cover radiometer) Description: Character string: Instrument Type: imager (scanning monochromator) and sounder (a cloud cover radiometer), Operational Mode: Discrete mode, sweep mode or diffuser plate mode., Collection Type: nonspatial scanning, Other Information: The SBUV/2 is a nadir pointing nonspatial scanning instrument sensitive to radiation in the 160 nm to 400 nm ultraviolet spectrum. The SBUV/2 instruments on the TIROS-N satellites are designed to measure the total ozone in a vertical column beneath the satellite and its distribution with height in the atmosphere. The SBUV/2 contains a scanning double monochromator and a cloud cover radiometer (CCR) designed to measure ultraviolet (UV) spectral intensities. In its primary mode of operation, the monochromator measures solar radiation backscatter by the atmosphere in 12 discrete wavelength bands in the near-UV, ranging from 252.0 to 339.8 nm, each with a bandpass of 1.1 nm. The total-ozone algorithm uses the four longest wavelength bands (312.5, 317.5, 331.1, and 339.8 nm), whereas the profiling algorithm uses the shorter wavelengths. The cloud cover radiometer operates at 379 nm (i.e. outside the ozone absorption band) with a 3.0-nm bandpass and was designed to measure the reflectivity of the surface in the instantaneous field of view (IFOV). The SBUV/2 also makes periodic measurements of the solar flux by deploying a diffuser plate into the field of view (FOV) to reflect sunlight into the instrument. The monochromator and the cloud cover radiometer are mounted so that they look in the nadir direction with coincident nominal FOV's of 11.3 by 11.3 degrees. As the satellite moves in a Sun-synchronous orbit, the FOV traces 160-km wide paths on the ground. The earth rotates approximately 26 degrees during each orbit. The satellite footprint moves at a speed of about 6 km/sec. In discrete mode a set of 12 measurements, 1 for each discrete wavelength band, is taken every 32 seconds. The order of measurements is 252.0 to 339.8 and the integration time is 1.25 seconds per measurement. For each monochromator measurement there is a cloud cover radiometer measurement. 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Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS > National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service Role: CI_RoleCode: publisher Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: SEM-2 > Space Environment Monitor-2 Type: Character string: Particle sensor, magnetometer, and X-Ray sensor Description: Character string: The EPS accurately measures the number of particles over a broad energy range, including protons, electrons, and alpha particles. The magnetometer sensors can operate independently and simultaneously to measure the magnitude and direction of the Earth's geomagnetic field, detect variations in the magnetic field near the spacecraft, provide alerts of solar wind shocks or sudden impulses that impact the magnetosphere, and assess the level of geomagnetic activity. The second magnetometer sensor serves as a backup. The XRS is an x-ray telescope that observes and measures solar x-ray emissions in two ranges: one from 0.05 to 0.3 nanometers (nm) and the second from 0.1 to 0.8 nm. In real-time, it measures the intensity and duration of solar flares Platform: MI_Platform: Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: NOAA-18 > National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration-18 Description: Character string: NOAA-18 (N) - Launch: May 20, 2005. Instruments: AVHRR/3, TOVS (HIRS/4, AMSU-A1, AMSU-A2, MHS), SBUV/2, SARSAT (SARR, SARP/2) and DCS/2. Operational Dates: August 30, 2005 to Present. Operational Status: PM Secondary. NOAA-18 marks the beginning of the NOAA and European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) Initial Joint Polar System (IJPS) agreement. Sponsor: CI_ResponsibleParty: Organisation name: Character string: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/OSO > Office of Satellite Operations, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Contact information: CI_Contact: Address: CI_Address: Delivery point: Character string: NOAA / NESDIS Office of Satellite Operations, NSOF Bldg. 4231 Suitland Road City: Character string: Suitland Administrative area: Character string: MD Postal code: Character string: 20746-4304 Country: Character string: USA Role: CI_RoleCode: sponsor Sponsor: CI_ResponsibleParty: Organisation name: Character string: NASA/GSFC > Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Contact information: CI_Contact: Address: CI_Address: Delivery point: Character string: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center City: Character string: Greenbelt Administrative area: Character string: MD Postal code: Character string: 20771 Country: Character string: USA Electronic mail address: Character string: daacuso@daac.gsfc.nasa.gov Hours of service: Character string: 9 AM to 5 PM ET Role: CI_RoleCode: sponsor Sponsor: CI_ResponsibleParty: Organisation name: Character string: IJPS > Initial Joint Polar-orbiting Operational Satellite System Role: CI_RoleCode: sponsor Instrument: MI_Instrument: Citation: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: The Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 1997 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: publication Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: gov.noaa.ngdc.fgdccitation:26722 Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Cracknell, Arthur P. Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Taylor & Francis Role: CI_RoleCode: publisher Citation: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: NOAA KLM User's Guide, Section 3.1, Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer/3 (AVHRR/3) Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 2000-09 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: publication Edition: Character string: September 2000 Revision Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: gov.noaa.ngdc.fgdccitation:26723 Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Goodrum, Geoffrey (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Kidwell, Katherine B. (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Winston, Wayne (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC > National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Role: CI_RoleCode: publisher Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: AVHRR/3 > Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer/3 Type: Character string: imager Description: Character string: Instrument Type: imager, Operational Mode: cross-track, Collection Type: whiskbroom, Other Information: Instrument: MI_Instrument: Citation: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: NOAA KLM User's Guide, Section 3.2.2, HIRS/4 Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 2000-09 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: publication Edition: Character string: revision Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: gov.noaa.ngdc.fgdccitation:25125 Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Goodrum, Geoffrey (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC > National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Role: CI_RoleCode: publisher Citation: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: ATOVS Level 1b Products Guide, HIRS/4 Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 2004-09-08 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: publication Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: gov.noaa.ngdc.fgdccitation:30495 Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Organisation name: Character string: EUMETSAT > European Meteorological Satellite Organisation Contact information: CI_Contact: Phone: CI_Telephone: Voice: Character string: +49(0)6151-807 7 Facsimile: Character string: +49(0)6151-807 555 Address: CI_Address: Delivery point: Character string: EUMETSAT Eumetsat Allee 1 City: Character string: Darmstadt Administrative area: Character string: N/A Postal code: Character string: D-64295 Country: Character string: Germany Contact instructions: Character string: For information, go to: http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/AboutEUMETSAT/Contact_Us/index.htm?l=en Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: HIRS/4 > High Resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder/4 Type: Character string: sounder Description: Character string: Instrument Type: sounder, Operational Mode: cross-track, Collection Type: continuous scan, Other Information: The HIRS/4 instrument provides multispectral data from one visible channel (0.69 m), seven shortwave channels (3.7 to 4.6 m) and twelve longwave channels (6.7 to 15 m) using a single telescope and a rotating filter wheel containing twenty individual spectral filters. An elliptical scan mirror provides cross-track scanning of 56 steps in increments of 1.8 degrees. The mirror steps rapidly (<35 msec), then holds at each position while the optical radiation , passing through the 20 spectral filters, is sampled. This action takes place each 0.1 second. The instantaneous field of view for each channel is approximately 0.7 degrees which, from a spacecraft altitude of 833 km, encompasses a circular area of 10 km at nadir on the earth. Instrument: MI_Instrument: Citation: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: NOAA KLM User's Guide, Section 3.3, Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A (AMSU-A) Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 2000-09 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: publication Edition: Character string: Revision Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: gov.noaa.ngdc.fgdccitation:27040 Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Goodrum, Geoffrey (ed.) 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Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS > National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service Role: CI_RoleCode: publisher Citation: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: ATOVS Level 1b Products Guide, AMSU-A Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 2004-09-08 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: publication Edition: Character string: issue 1.0 Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: gov.noaa.ngdc.fgdccitation:30494 Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Organisation name: Character string: EUMETSAT > European Meteorological Satellite Organisation Contact information: CI_Contact: Phone: CI_Telephone: Voice: Character string: +49(0)6151-807 7 Facsimile: Character string: +49(0)6151-807 555 Address: CI_Address: Delivery point: Character string: EUMETSAT Eumetsat Allee 1 City: Character string: Darmstadt Administrative area: Character string: N/A Postal code: Character string: D-64295 Country: Character string: Germany Contact instructions: Character string: For information, go to: http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/AboutEUMETSAT/Contact_Us/index.htm?l=en Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: AMSU-A > Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A Type: Character string: sounder and profiler Description: Character string: Instrument Type: sounder and profiler, Operational Mode: cross-track, Collection Type: stepped-line scanning, Other Information: AMSU-A is a 15-channel cross-track, stepped-line scanning, total power microwave radiometer. The instrument has an instantaneous field-of-view of 3.3 degrees at the half-power points providing a nominal spatial resolution at nadir of 48 km (29.8 mi). The antenna provides a cross-track scan, scanning +48.3 degrees (-48.3 degrees) from nadir with a total of 30 Earth fields-of-view per scan line. This instrument completes one scan every 8 seconds. Instrument: MI_Instrument: Citation: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: NOAA KLM User's Guide, Section 7.6, Microwave Humidity Sounder (MHS) Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 2000-09 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: publication Edition: Character string: Revision Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: gov.noaa.ngdc.fgdccitation:23469 Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Goodrum, Geoffrey (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Kidwell, Katherine B. (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Winston, Wayne (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC > National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Role: CI_RoleCode: publisher Citation: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: NOAA KLM User's Guide, Section 3.9, Microwave Humidity Sounder (MHS) Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 2000-09 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: publication Edition: Character string: revision Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: gov.noaa.ngdc.fgdccitation:25121 Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Goodrum, Geoffrey Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Kidwell, Kathy B. 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The instrument has an instantaneous field-of-view of 1.11 degrees. Spatial resolution at nadir is nominally 17 km (10.56 mi). The antenna provides a cross-track scan, scanning +50 degrees (-50 degrees) from nadir with a total of 90 Earth fields-of-view per scan line. This instrument completes one scan every 8/3 seconds. Instrument: MI_Instrument: Citation: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: NOAA KLM User's Guide, Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet Spectral Radiometer (SBUV/2), Section 3.8 Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 2000-09 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: publication Edition: Character string: revision Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: gov.noaa.ngdc.fgdccitation:23315 Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Goodrum, Geoffrey (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Kidwell, Katherine B. (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Winston, Wayne (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS > National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Role: CI_RoleCode: publisher Citation: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: NOAA KLM User's Guide, Section 7.4, SBUV/2 Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 2000-09 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: publication Edition: Character string: revision Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: gov.noaa.ngdc.fgdccitation:23350 Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Goodrum, Geoffrey (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Kidwell, Katherine B. (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Winston, Wayne (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS > National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Role: CI_RoleCode: publisher Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: SBUV/2 > Solar Backscattered Ultraviolet Radiometer/2 Type: Character string: imager (scanning monochromator) and sounder (a cloud cover radiometer) Description: Character string: Instrument Type: imager (scanning monochromator) and sounder (a cloud cover radiometer), Operational Mode: Discrete mode, sweep mode or diffuser plate mode., Collection Type: nonspatial scanning, Other Information: The SBUV/2 is a nadir pointing nonspatial scanning instrument sensitive to radiation in the 160 nm to 400 nm ultraviolet spectrum. The SBUV/2 instruments on the TIROS-N satellites are designed to measure the total ozone in a vertical column beneath the satellite and its distribution with height in the atmosphere. The SBUV/2 contains a scanning double monochromator and a cloud cover radiometer (CCR) designed to measure ultraviolet (UV) spectral intensities. In its primary mode of operation, the monochromator measures solar radiation backscatter by the atmosphere in 12 discrete wavelength bands in the near-UV, ranging from 252.0 to 339.8 nm, each with a bandpass of 1.1 nm. The total-ozone algorithm uses the four longest wavelength bands (312.5, 317.5, 331.1, and 339.8 nm), whereas the profiling algorithm uses the shorter wavelengths. The cloud cover radiometer operates at 379 nm (i.e. outside the ozone absorption band) with a 3.0-nm bandpass and was designed to measure the reflectivity of the surface in the instantaneous field of view (IFOV). The SBUV/2 also makes periodic measurements of the solar flux by deploying a diffuser plate into the field of view (FOV) to reflect sunlight into the instrument. The monochromator and the cloud cover radiometer are mounted so that they look in the nadir direction with coincident nominal FOV's of 11.3 by 11.3 degrees. As the satellite moves in a Sun-synchronous orbit, the FOV traces 160-km wide paths on the ground. The earth rotates approximately 26 degrees during each orbit. The satellite footprint moves at a speed of about 6 km/sec. In discrete mode a set of 12 measurements, 1 for each discrete wavelength band, is taken every 32 seconds. The order of measurements is 252.0 to 339.8 and the integration time is 1.25 seconds per measurement. For each monochromator measurement there is a cloud cover radiometer measurement. 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Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS > National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service Role: CI_RoleCode: publisher Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: SEM-2 > Space Environment Monitor-2 Type: Character string: Particle sensor, magnetometer, and X-Ray sensor Description: Character string: The EPS accurately measures the number of particles over a broad energy range, including protons, electrons, and alpha particles. The magnetometer sensors can operate independently and simultaneously to measure the magnitude and direction of the Earth's geomagnetic field, detect variations in the magnetic field near the spacecraft, provide alerts of solar wind shocks or sudden impulses that impact the magnetosphere, and assess the level of geomagnetic activity. The second magnetometer sensor serves as a backup. The XRS is an x-ray telescope that observes and measures solar x-ray emissions in two ranges: one from 0.05 to 0.3 nanometers (nm) and the second from 0.1 to 0.8 nm. In real-time, it measures the intensity and duration of solar flares Platform: MI_Platform: Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: NOAA-17 > National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration-17 Description: Character string: NOAA-17 (M) - Launched: June 24, 2002. Instruments: AVHRR/3, TOVS (HIRS/3, AMSU-A1, AMSU-A2, AMSU-B), SBUV/2, SEM/2, SARSAT, DCS/2. Operational Status: AM backup. Sponsor: CI_ResponsibleParty: Organisation name: Character string: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/OSO > Office of Satellite Operations, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Contact information: CI_Contact: Address: CI_Address: Delivery point: Character string: NOAA / NESDIS Office of Satellite Operations, NSOF Bldg. 4231 Suitland Road City: Character string: Suitland Administrative area: Character string: MD Postal code: Character string: 20746-4304 Country: Character string: USA Role: CI_RoleCode: sponsor Sponsor: CI_ResponsibleParty: Organisation name: Character string: NASA/GSFC > Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Contact information: CI_Contact: Address: CI_Address: Delivery point: Character string: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center City: Character string: Greenbelt Administrative area: Character string: MD Postal code: Character string: 20771 Country: Character string: USA Electronic mail address: Character string: daacuso@daac.gsfc.nasa.gov Hours of service: Character string: 9 AM to 5 PM ET Role: CI_RoleCode: sponsor Instrument: MI_Instrument: Citation: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: The Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 1997 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: publication Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: gov.noaa.ngdc.fgdccitation:26722 Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Cracknell, Arthur P. Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Taylor & Francis Role: CI_RoleCode: publisher Citation: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: NOAA KLM User's Guide, Section 3.1, Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer/3 (AVHRR/3) Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 2000-09 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: publication Edition: Character string: September 2000 Revision Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: gov.noaa.ngdc.fgdccitation:26723 Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Goodrum, Geoffrey (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Kidwell, Katherine B. (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Winston, Wayne (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC > National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Role: CI_RoleCode: publisher Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: AVHRR/3 > Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer/3 Type: Character string: imager Description: Character string: Instrument Type: imager, Operational Mode: cross-track, Collection Type: whiskbroom, Other Information: Instrument: MI_Instrument: Citation: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: NOAA KLM User's Guide, Section 3.2.1, HIRS/3 Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 2000-09 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: publication Edition: Character string: revision Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: gov.noaa.ngdc.fgdccitation:25123 Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Goodrum, Geoffrey (ed.) 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The instrument has an instantaneous field-of-view of 3.3 degrees at the half-power points providing a nominal spatial resolution at nadir of 48 km (29.8 mi). The antenna provides a cross-track scan, scanning +48.3 degrees (-48.3 degrees) from nadir with a total of 30 Earth fields-of-view per scan line. This instrument completes one scan every 8 seconds. Instrument: MI_Instrument: Citation: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: NOAA KLM User's Guide, Section 3.4, Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-B (AMSU-B) Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 2000-09 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: publication Edition: Character string: revision Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: gov.noaa.ngdc.fgdccitation:25182 Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Goodrum, Geoffrey (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Kidwell, Kathy B. (ed.) 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The antenna provides a cross-track scan, scanning +48.95 degrees (-48.95 degrees) from nadir with a total of 90 Earth fields-of-view per scan line. This instrument completes one scan every 8/3 seconds. Instrument: MI_Instrument: Citation: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: NOAA KLM User's Guide, Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet Spectral Radiometer (SBUV/2), Section 3.8 Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 2000-09 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: publication Edition: Character string: revision Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: gov.noaa.ngdc.fgdccitation:23315 Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Goodrum, Geoffrey (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Kidwell, Katherine B. (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Winston, Wayne (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS > National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Role: CI_RoleCode: publisher Citation: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: NOAA KLM User's Guide, Section 7.4, SBUV/2 Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 2000-09 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: publication Edition: Character string: revision Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: gov.noaa.ngdc.fgdccitation:23350 Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Goodrum, Geoffrey (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Kidwell, Katherine B. (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Winston, Wayne (ed.) 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The SBUV/2 instruments on the TIROS-N satellites are designed to measure the total ozone in a vertical column beneath the satellite and its distribution with height in the atmosphere. The SBUV/2 contains a scanning double monochromator and a cloud cover radiometer (CCR) designed to measure ultraviolet (UV) spectral intensities. In its primary mode of operation, the monochromator measures solar radiation backscatter by the atmosphere in 12 discrete wavelength bands in the near-UV, ranging from 252.0 to 339.8 nm, each with a bandpass of 1.1 nm. The total-ozone algorithm uses the four longest wavelength bands (312.5, 317.5, 331.1, and 339.8 nm), whereas the profiling algorithm uses the shorter wavelengths. The cloud cover radiometer operates at 379 nm (i.e. outside the ozone absorption band) with a 3.0-nm bandpass and was designed to measure the reflectivity of the surface in the instantaneous field of view (IFOV). The SBUV/2 also makes periodic measurements of the solar flux by deploying a diffuser plate into the field of view (FOV) to reflect sunlight into the instrument. The monochromator and the cloud cover radiometer are mounted so that they look in the nadir direction with coincident nominal FOV's of 11.3 by 11.3 degrees. As the satellite moves in a Sun-synchronous orbit, the FOV traces 160-km wide paths on the ground. The earth rotates approximately 26 degrees during each orbit. The satellite footprint moves at a speed of about 6 km/sec. In discrete mode a set of 12 measurements, 1 for each discrete wavelength band, is taken every 32 seconds. The order of measurements is 252.0 to 339.8 and the integration time is 1.25 seconds per measurement. For each monochromator measurement there is a cloud cover radiometer measurement. Instrument: MI_Instrument: Citation: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: NOAA KLM User's Guide, Section 3.5, Space Environment Monitor (SEM-2) Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 2000-09 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: publication Edition: Character string: Revision Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: NOAA KLM User's Guide, Section 3.5, Space Environment Monitor (SEM-2) Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Goodrum, Geoffrey (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Kidwell, Katherine B. (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Winston, Wayne (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS > National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service Role: CI_RoleCode: publisher Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: SEM-2 > Space Environment Monitor-2 Type: Character string: Particle sensor, magnetometer, and X-Ray sensor Description: Character string: The EPS accurately measures the number of particles over a broad energy range, including protons, electrons, and alpha particles. The magnetometer sensors can operate independently and simultaneously to measure the magnitude and direction of the Earth's geomagnetic field, detect variations in the magnetic field near the spacecraft, provide alerts of solar wind shocks or sudden impulses that impact the magnetosphere, and assess the level of geomagnetic activity. The second magnetometer sensor serves as a backup. The XRS is an x-ray telescope that observes and measures solar x-ray emissions in two ranges: one from 0.05 to 0.3 nanometers (nm) and the second from 0.1 to 0.8 nm. In real-time, it measures the intensity and duration of solar flares Platform: MI_Platform: Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: METOP-A > Meteorological Operational Satellite - A Description: Character string: Sponsor: CI_ResponsibleParty: Organisation name: Character string: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/OSO > Office of Satellite Operations, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Contact information: CI_Contact: Address: CI_Address: Delivery point: Character string: NOAA / NESDIS Office of Satellite Operations, NSOF Bldg. 4231 Suitland Road City: Character string: Suitland Administrative area: Character string: MD Postal code: Character string: 20746-4304 Country: Character string: USA Role: CI_RoleCode: sponsor Sponsor: CI_ResponsibleParty: Organisation name: Character string: EUMETSAT > European Meteorological Satellite Organisation Contact information: CI_Contact: Phone: CI_Telephone: Voice: Character string: +49 6151 807345 Facsimile: Character string: +49 6151 807538 Address: CI_Address: Delivery point: Character string: Am Kavalleriesand 31 City: Character string: Darmstadt Administrative area: Character string: Hessen Postal code: Character string: D-64295 Country: Character string: Germany Electronic mail address: Character string: Role: CI_RoleCode: custodian Sponsor: CI_ResponsibleParty: Organisation name: Character string: IJPS > Initial Joint Polar-orbiting Operational Satellite System Role: CI_RoleCode: sponsor Instrument: MI_Instrument: Citation: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: NOAA KLM User's Guide, Section 3.3, Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A (AMSU-A) Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 2000-09 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: publication Edition: Character string: Revision Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: gov.noaa.ngdc.fgdccitation:27040 Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Goodrum, Geoffrey (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Kidwell, Katherine B. (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Winston, Wayne (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS > National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service Role: CI_RoleCode: publisher Citation: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: ATOVS Level 1b Products Guide, AMSU-A Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 2004-09-08 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: publication Edition: Character string: issue 1.0 Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: gov.noaa.ngdc.fgdccitation:30494 Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Organisation name: Character string: EUMETSAT > European Meteorological Satellite Organisation Contact information: CI_Contact: Phone: CI_Telephone: Voice: Character string: +49(0)6151-807 7 Facsimile: Character string: +49(0)6151-807 555 Address: CI_Address: Delivery point: Character string: EUMETSAT Eumetsat Allee 1 City: Character string: Darmstadt Administrative area: Character string: N/A Postal code: Character string: D-64295 Country: Character string: Germany Contact instructions: Character string: For information, go to: http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/AboutEUMETSAT/Contact_Us/index.htm?l=en Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: AMSU-A > Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A Type: Character string: sounder and profiler Description: Character string: Instrument Type: sounder and profiler, Operational Mode: cross-track, Collection Type: stepped-line scanning, Other Information: AMSU-A is a 15-channel cross-track, stepped-line scanning, total power microwave radiometer. The instrument has an instantaneous field-of-view of 3.3 degrees at the half-power points providing a nominal spatial resolution at nadir of 48 km (29.8 mi). The antenna provides a cross-track scan, scanning +48.3 degrees (-48.3 degrees) from nadir with a total of 30 Earth fields-of-view per scan line. This instrument completes one scan every 8 seconds. Instrument: MI_Instrument: Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: ASCAT > Advanced Scatterometer Type: Character string: scatterometer Description: Character string: Instrument Type: scatterometer, Operational Mode: , Collection Type: radar, Other Information: ASCAT is a real aperture radar operating at 5.255 GHz (C-band) and using vertically polarized antennae. It transmits a long pulse with Linear Frequency Modulation ('chirp'). Ground echoes are received by the instrument and, after de-chirping, the backscattered signal is spectrally analysed and detected. In the power spectrum, frequency can be mapped into slant range provided the chirp rate and the Doppler frequency are known. The above processing is in effect a pulse compression, which provides range resolution. Its use of six antennas allows the simultaneous coverage of two swaths on either side of the satellite ground track and hence provides twice the information of the earlier instruments. The width of each double swath is 550 km with a gap around satellite track of 700 km. On an experimental basis, ASCAT also provides measurements at a higher than nominal resolution. The ASCAT instrument may operate in three different modes, Measurement, Calibration and Test. Additionally, in Measurement mode the instrument occasionally generates special source packets for Gain Compression Monitoring. The nominal instrument mode, and the only one that generates science data for the users, is Measurement mode. Instrument: MI_Instrument: Citation: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: The Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 1997 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: publication Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: gov.noaa.ngdc.fgdccitation:26722 Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Cracknell, Arthur P. Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Taylor & Francis Role: CI_RoleCode: publisher Citation: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: NOAA KLM User's Guide, Section 3.1, Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer/3 (AVHRR/3) Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 2000-09 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: publication Edition: Character string: September 2000 Revision Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: gov.noaa.ngdc.fgdccitation:26723 Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Goodrum, Geoffrey (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Kidwell, Katherine B. (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Winston, Wayne (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC > National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Role: CI_RoleCode: publisher Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: AVHRR/3 > Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer/3 Type: Character string: imager Description: Character string: Instrument Type: imager, Operational Mode: cross-track, Collection Type: whiskbroom, Other Information: Instrument: MI_Instrument: Citation: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: GOME-2 Products Guide, 4.1 The GOME-2 Instrument Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 2005-02-28 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: publication Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: gov.noaa.ngdc.fgdccitation:30434 Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Organisation name: Character string: EUMETSAT > European Meteorological Satellite Organisation Contact information: CI_Contact: Phone: CI_Telephone: Voice: Character string: +49(0)6151-807 7 Facsimile: Character string: +49(0)6151-807 555 Address: CI_Address: Delivery point: Character string: EUMETSAT Eumetsat Allee 1 City: Character string: Darmstadt Administrative area: Character string: N/A Postal code: Character string: D-64295 Country: Character string: Germany Contact instructions: Character string: For information, go to: http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/AboutEUMETSAT/Contact_Us/index.htm?l=en Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: GOME-2 > Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment-2 Type: Character string: imager Description: Character string: Instrument Type: imager, Operational Mode: , Collection Type: across-track and sideways, Other Information: The GOME-2 is an optical spectrometer, fed by a scan mirror which enables across-track scanning in nadir, as well as sideways viewing for polar coverage and instrument characterization measurements using the moon. The scan mirror directs light into a telescope, designed to match the field of view of the instrument to the dimensions of the entrance slit. This scan mirror can also be directed towards internal calibration sources or towards a diffuser plate for calibration measurements using the sun. Instrument: MI_Instrument: Citation: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: NOAA KLM User's Guide, Section 3.2.2, HIRS/4 Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 2000-09 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: publication Edition: Character string: revision Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: gov.noaa.ngdc.fgdccitation:25125 Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Goodrum, Geoffrey (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC > National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Role: CI_RoleCode: publisher Citation: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: ATOVS Level 1b Products Guide, HIRS/4 Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 2004-09-08 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: publication Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: gov.noaa.ngdc.fgdccitation:30495 Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Organisation name: Character string: EUMETSAT > European Meteorological Satellite Organisation Contact information: CI_Contact: Phone: CI_Telephone: Voice: Character string: +49(0)6151-807 7 Facsimile: Character string: +49(0)6151-807 555 Address: CI_Address: Delivery point: Character string: EUMETSAT Eumetsat Allee 1 City: Character string: Darmstadt Administrative area: Character string: N/A Postal code: Character string: D-64295 Country: Character string: Germany Contact instructions: Character string: For information, go to: http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/AboutEUMETSAT/Contact_Us/index.htm?l=en Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: HIRS/4 > High Resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder/4 Type: Character string: sounder Description: Character string: Instrument Type: sounder, Operational Mode: cross-track, Collection Type: continuous scan, Other Information: The HIRS/4 instrument provides multispectral data from one visible channel (0.69 m), seven shortwave channels (3.7 to 4.6 m) and twelve longwave channels (6.7 to 15 m) using a single telescope and a rotating filter wheel containing twenty individual spectral filters. An elliptical scan mirror provides cross-track scanning of 56 steps in increments of 1.8 degrees. The mirror steps rapidly (<35 msec), then holds at each position while the optical radiation , passing through the 20 spectral filters, is sampled. This action takes place each 0.1 second. The instantaneous field of view for each channel is approximately 0.7 degrees which, from a spacecraft altitude of 833 km, encompasses a circular area of 10 km at nadir on the earth. Instrument: MI_Instrument: Citation: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: NOAA KLM User's Guide, Section 7.6, Microwave Humidity Sounder (MHS) Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 2000-09 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: publication Edition: Character string: Revision Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: gov.noaa.ngdc.fgdccitation:23469 Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Goodrum, Geoffrey (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Kidwell, Katherine B. (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Winston, Wayne (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC > National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Role: CI_RoleCode: publisher Citation: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: NOAA KLM User's Guide, Section 3.9, Microwave Humidity Sounder (MHS) Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 2000-09 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: publication Edition: Character string: revision Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: gov.noaa.ngdc.fgdccitation:25121 Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Goodrum, Geoffrey Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Kidwell, Kathy B. Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Winston, Wayne Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC > National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Role: CI_RoleCode: publisher Citation: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: ATOVS Level 1b Products Guide, MHS Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 2004-09-08 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: publication Edition: Character string: Issue 1.0 Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: gov.noaa.ngdc.fgdccitation:30503 Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: EPS > EUMETSAT Polar System Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: MHS > Microwave Humidity Sounder Type: Character string: sounder Description: Character string: Instrument Type: sounder, Operational Mode: cross-track, Collection Type: continuous line scanning, Other Information: MHS is a 5 channel cross-track, continuous line scanning, total power microwave radiometer. The instrument has an instantaneous field-of-view of 1.11 degrees. Spatial resolution at nadir is nominally 17 km (10.56 mi). The antenna provides a cross-track scan, scanning +50 degrees (-50 degrees) from nadir with a total of 90 Earth fields-of-view per scan line. This instrument completes one scan every 8/3 seconds. Instrument: MI_Instrument: Citation: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: GRAS Products Guide, 4.1. The GRAS instrument Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 2006-11-09 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: publication Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: gov.noaa.ngdc.fgdccitation:31979 Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Organisation name: Character string: EUMETSAT > European Meteorological Satellite Organisation Contact information: CI_Contact: Phone: CI_Telephone: Voice: Character string: +49(0)6151-807 7 Facsimile: Character string: +49(0)6151-807 555 Address: CI_Address: Delivery point: Character string: EUMETSAT Eumetsat Allee 1 City: Character string: Darmstadt Administrative area: Character string: N/A Postal code: Character string: D-64295 Country: Character string: Germany Contact instructions: Character string: For information, go to: http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/AboutEUMETSAT/Contact_Us/index.htm?l=en Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: GRAS > Global Navigation Satellite System Receiver for Atmospheric Sounding Type: Character string: GPS Receiver Description: Character string: Instrument Type: GPS Receiver, Operational Mode: , Collection Type: TBD, Other Information: GRAS will not view the Earth system with a vertical scan but will instead look tangentially through the Earth's atmosphere. The instrument will measure the time delay of the refracted GPS radio signals as the ray (signal path) skirts the Earth's atmosphere on its way from the transmitting GPS satellite to MetOp. By precisely computing position and velocity of MetOp and the GPS satellite, the measured time delay can be converted to the bending angle of the ray path, which again can be converted to values of temperature, pressure and water vapor content in the atmosphere. The resulting quantities will be functions of height above sea level (from ground level up to approximately 80 km), an atmospheric profile. Instrument: MI_Instrument: Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: IASI > Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer Type: Character string: Infrared Michaelson Interferometer Description: Character string: Instrument Type: Infrared Michaelson Interferometer, Operational Mode: , Collection Type: sounder, Other Information: Instrument: MI_Instrument: Citation: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: NOAA KLM User's Guide, Section 3.5, Space Environment Monitor (SEM-2) Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 2000-09 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: publication Edition: Character string: Revision Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: NOAA KLM User's Guide, Section 3.5, Space Environment Monitor (SEM-2) Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Goodrum, Geoffrey (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Kidwell, Katherine B. (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Winston, Wayne (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS > National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service Role: CI_RoleCode: publisher Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: SEM-2 > Space Environment Monitor-2 Type: Character string: Particle sensor, magnetometer, and X-Ray sensor Description: Character string: The EPS accurately measures the number of particles over a broad energy range, including protons, electrons, and alpha particles. The magnetometer sensors can operate independently and simultaneously to measure the magnitude and direction of the Earth's geomagnetic field, detect variations in the magnetic field near the spacecraft, provide alerts of solar wind shocks or sudden impulses that impact the magnetosphere, and assess the level of geomagnetic activity. The second magnetometer sensor serves as a backup. The XRS is an x-ray telescope that observes and measures solar x-ray emissions in two ranges: one from 0.05 to 0.3 nanometers (nm) and the second from 0.1 to 0.8 nm. In real-time, it measures the intensity and duration of solar flares Platform: MI_Platform: Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: NOAA-12 > National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration-12 Description: Character string: NOAA-12 (D)- Launch: May 14, 1991. Instruments: AVHRR/2, TOVS (HIRS/2, MSU, SSU) and SEM. Operational Dates: May 14, 1991 to December 14, 1998. Operational Status: Decommissioned on May 23, 2007. NOAA-12 was placed in a near circular, (450nm) polar orbit. It was the fifth operational satellite in the Advanced TIROS-N series. The spacecraft was rectangular shaped (166" long by 74" high) and powered by a 191" by 94" solar array. The satellite was Earth oriented, three-axis stabilized and weighed approximately 2000 pounds. Sponsor: CI_ResponsibleParty: Organisation name: Character string: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/OSO > Office of Satellite Operations, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Contact information: CI_Contact: Address: CI_Address: Delivery point: Character string: NOAA / NESDIS Office of Satellite Operations, NSOF Bldg. 4231 Suitland Road City: Character string: Suitland Administrative area: Character string: MD Postal code: Character string: 20746-4304 Country: Character string: USA Role: CI_RoleCode: sponsor Sponsor: CI_ResponsibleParty: Organisation name: Character string: NASA/GSFC > Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Contact information: CI_Contact: Address: CI_Address: Delivery point: Character string: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center City: Character string: Greenbelt Administrative area: Character string: MD Postal code: Character string: 20771 Country: Character string: USA Electronic mail address: Character string: daacuso@daac.gsfc.nasa.gov Hours of service: Character string: 9 AM to 5 PM ET Role: CI_RoleCode: sponsor Instrument: MI_Instrument: Citation: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: The Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 1997 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: publication Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: gov.noaa.ngdc.fgdccitation:26722 Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Cracknell, Arthur P. Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Taylor & Francis Role: CI_RoleCode: publisher Citation: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: NOAA Polar Orbiter Data User's Guide, Section 3.0, AVHRR Level 1b Data Base Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 1998-11 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: publication Edition: Character string: Revision Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: gov.noaa.ngdc.fgdccitation:23475 Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Kidwell, Katherine B. (ed. and comp.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC > National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Role: CI_RoleCode: publisher Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: AVHRR/2 > Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer/2 Type: Character string: imager Description: Character string: Instrument Type: imager, Operational Mode: cross-track, Collection Type: whiskbroom, Other Information: Instrument: MI_Instrument: Citation: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: NOAA Polar Orbiter Data User's Guide, Section 4.1, HIRS/2 Data Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 1998-11 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: publication Edition: Character string: revision Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: gov.noaa.ngdc.fgdccitation:25124 Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Kidwell, Katherine B. (comp. and ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC > National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Role: CI_RoleCode: publisher Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: HIRS/2 > High Resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder/2 Type: Character string: sounder Description: Character string: Instrument Type: sounder, Operational Mode: cross-track, Collection Type: continuous scan, Other Information: The IFOV of the HIRS/2 channels are stepped across the satellite track by use of a rotating mirror. This cross-track scan, combined with the satellite's motion in orbit, will provide coverage of a major portion of the Earth's surface. Instrument: MI_Instrument: Citation: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: NOAA Polar Orbiter Data User's Guide. Section 4.3, MSU Data Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 1998-11 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: publication Edition: Character string: revision Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: gov.noaa.ngdc.fgdccitation:25178 Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Kidwell, Katherine B. (comp. and ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC > National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Role: CI_RoleCode: publisher Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: MSU > Microwave Sounding Unit Type: Character string: sounder Description: Character string: Instrument Type: sounder, Operational Mode: , Collection Type: step-scan, Other Information: The MSU sensors consist of two four-inch diameter antennas, each having an IFOV of 7.5 degrees. The antennas are step-scanned through eleven individual 1.84-second Earth viewing steps and require a total of 25.6 seconds to complete. The 124-kilometer IFOV resolution at the subpoint creates an underlap of approximately 115 km between adjacent scan lines. Instrument: MI_Instrument: Citation: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: NOAA Polar Orbiter Data User's Guide, Section 4.2, SSU Data Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 1998-11 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: publication Edition: Character string: revision Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: gov.noaa.ngdc.fgdccitation:25179 Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Kidwell, Katherine B. (comp. and ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC > National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Role: CI_RoleCode: publisher Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: SSU > Stratospheric Sounding Unit Type: Character string: sounder Description: Character string: Instrument Type: sounder, Operational Mode: crosstrack, Collection Type: step-scan, Other Information: The SSU consists of a single primary telescope with a 10 degree IFOV which is step-scanned perpendicular to the satellite subpoint track. Each scan line is composed of eight individual 4.0 second steps and requires a total of 32 seconds, including time for the mirror retrace. The 10 degree IFOV gives a resolution of 147 km at the satellite subpoint and the stepping produces an underlap between adjacent scan lines of approximately 62 km at nadir. A calibration sequence is initiated every 256 seconds (8 scans) during which the radiometer is in turn, stepped to a position to view unobstructed space and an internal blackbody at a known temperature. Platform: MI_Platform: Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: NOAA-15 > National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration-15 Description: Character string: NOAA-15 (K) - Launch: May 13, 1998. Instruments: AVHRR/3, TOVS (HIRS/3, AMSU-A1, AMSU-A2, AMSU-B), SEM/2, SARSAT (SARR, SARP/2), Argos/DCS/2 Operational dates: December 15, 1998 to Present. Operational Status: AM Secondary. NOAA-15 was placed in a near circular, (450nm) polar orbit. It is the seventh operational satellite in the Advanced TIROS-N series. It is the first in the series to support dedicated microwave instruments for the generation of temperature, moisture and surface hydrological products in cloudy regions where visible and infrared instruments have reduced capabilities. The spacecraft was rectangular shaped (4.2m long by 1.88m high) and powered by a 6.14m by 2.73m solar array. The satellite was Earth oriented, three-axis stabilized and weighed approximately 2200 kg. 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Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Taylor & Francis Role: CI_RoleCode: publisher Citation: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: NOAA KLM User's Guide, Section 3.1, Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer/3 (AVHRR/3) Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 2000-09 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: publication Edition: Character string: September 2000 Revision Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: gov.noaa.ngdc.fgdccitation:26723 Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Goodrum, Geoffrey (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Kidwell, Katherine B. (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Winston, Wayne (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC > National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Role: CI_RoleCode: publisher Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: AVHRR/3 > Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer/3 Type: Character string: imager Description: Character string: Instrument Type: imager, Operational Mode: cross-track, Collection Type: whiskbroom, Other Information: Instrument: MI_Instrument: Citation: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: NOAA KLM User's Guide, Section 3.2.1, HIRS/3 Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 2000-09 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: publication Edition: Character string: revision Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: gov.noaa.ngdc.fgdccitation:25123 Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Goodrum, Geoffrey (ed.) 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Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC > National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Role: CI_RoleCode: publisher Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: HIRS/3 > High Resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder/3 Type: Character string: sounder Description: Character string: Instrument Type: sounder, Operational Mode: cross-track, Collection Type: continuous scan, Other Information: TBD Instrument: MI_Instrument: Citation: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: NOAA KLM User's Guide, Section 3.3, Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A (AMSU-A) Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 2000-09 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: publication Edition: Character string: Revision Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: gov.noaa.ngdc.fgdccitation:27040 Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Goodrum, Geoffrey (ed.) 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Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS > National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service Role: CI_RoleCode: publisher Citation: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: ATOVS Level 1b Products Guide, AMSU-A Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 2004-09-08 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: publication Edition: Character string: issue 1.0 Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: gov.noaa.ngdc.fgdccitation:30494 Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Organisation name: Character string: EUMETSAT > European Meteorological Satellite Organisation Contact information: CI_Contact: Phone: CI_Telephone: Voice: Character string: +49(0)6151-807 7 Facsimile: Character string: +49(0)6151-807 555 Address: CI_Address: Delivery point: Character string: EUMETSAT Eumetsat Allee 1 City: Character string: Darmstadt Administrative area: Character string: N/A Postal code: Character string: D-64295 Country: Character string: Germany Contact instructions: Character string: For information, go to: http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/AboutEUMETSAT/Contact_Us/index.htm?l=en Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: AMSU-A > Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A Type: Character string: sounder and profiler Description: Character string: Instrument Type: sounder and profiler, Operational Mode: cross-track, Collection Type: stepped-line scanning, Other Information: AMSU-A is a 15-channel cross-track, stepped-line scanning, total power microwave radiometer. The instrument has an instantaneous field-of-view of 3.3 degrees at the half-power points providing a nominal spatial resolution at nadir of 48 km (29.8 mi). The antenna provides a cross-track scan, scanning +48.3 degrees (-48.3 degrees) from nadir with a total of 30 Earth fields-of-view per scan line. This instrument completes one scan every 8 seconds. Instrument: MI_Instrument: Citation: CI_Citation: Title: Character string: NOAA KLM User's Guide, Section 3.4, Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-B (AMSU-B) Date: CI_Date: Date: Date: 2000-09 Date type: CI_DateTypeCode: publication Edition: Character string: revision Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: gov.noaa.ngdc.fgdccitation:25182 Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Goodrum, Geoffrey (ed.) Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: Kidwell, Kathy B. (ed.) 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Role: CI_RoleCode: originator Cited responsible party: CI_ResponsibleParty: Individual name: Character string: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS > National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service Role: CI_RoleCode: publisher Identifier: MD_Identifier: Code: Character string: SEM-2 > Space Environment Monitor-2 Type: Character string: Particle sensor, magnetometer, and X-Ray sensor Description: Character string: The EPS accurately measures the number of particles over a broad energy range, including protons, electrons, and alpha particles. The magnetometer sensors can operate independently and simultaneously to measure the magnitude and direction of the Earth's geomagnetic field, detect variations in the magnetic field near the spacecraft, provide alerts of solar wind shocks or sudden impulses that impact the magnetosphere, and assess the level of geomagnetic activity. The second magnetometer sensor serves as a backup. The XRS is an x-ray telescope that observes and measures solar x-ray emissions in two ranges: one from 0.05 to 0.3 nanometers (nm) and the second from 0.1 to 0.8 nm. In real-time, it measures the intensity and duration of solar flares