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Title:

Earth Radation Budget Experiment (ERBE)
Monthly Scanner Data Products

Source:

Langley DAAC User and Data Services
NASA Langley Research Center
Mail Stop 157D
Hampton, Virginia 23681-0001
(804) 864-8807
userserv@eosdis.larc.nasa.gov

Description:

The goals of the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) are:
- to understand the radiation budget between the Sun, Earth, atmosphere and space which drives the weather and climate system
- to establish an accurate, long-term baseline data set for studying climate system changes.

The ERBE scanner instrument package (flown simultaneously on multiple satellites) contains three instruments to measure shortwave, longwave, and total waveband radiation. Each detector scans the Earth from horizon to horizon, usually perpendicular to the satellite ground track.

This CD-ROM contains data and color images from scanning radiometers on the three ERBE satellites (ERBS, NOAA-9, NOAA-10) for for combined satellite cases. Monthly average values are included for the time periods during which the scanner were operational.