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NCEP GDAS Satellite Radiance Data

Radiance products used in the NCEP Global Data Assimilation System can be found in this set. Data types include: Atmospheric InfraRed Sounder (airs) HSB processed brightness temperatures, Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A (1bamua), Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-B (1bamub), High resolution InfraRed Sounder-3 (1bhrs3), High resolution InfraRed Sounder-4 (1bhrs4), and Microwave Humidity Sounder (1bmhs) NCEP processed brightness temperatures.

PERIODS:

2004-04-17 to 2009-11-19 (Entire dataset)

Period details by subset

Period details by subset:
2004-12-31 to 2009-11-19 (Daily 1BAMUA radiance data)
2004-12-31 to 2009-11-19 (Daily 1BAMUB radiance data)
2004-12-31 to 2009-11-19 (Daily 1BHRS3 radiance data)
2005-10-27 to 2009-11-19 (Daily 1BHRS4 radiance data)
2005-10-27 to 2009-11-19 (Daily 1BHMS radiance data)
2004-04-17 to 2009-11-19 (Atmospheric Infared Sounder Data, 2004Apr-Current)

UPDATES:

Daily (nominally)

VARIABLES:

Brightness Temperature

TYPES:

Platform Observation

COVERAGE:

See the detailed metadata for coverage information

SOURCES:

DOC/NOAA/NWS/NCEP

National Centers for Environmental Prediction, National Weather Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce

PUBLICATIONS:

Recommended acknowledgement for this dataset:
"The data for this study are from the Research Data Archive (RDA) which is maintained by the Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). NCAR is sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The original data are available from the RDA (http://dss.ucar.edu) in dataset number ds735.0."

VOLUME:

1806.43 GBytes (Entire dataset)

Volume details by subset

Volume details by subset:
Daily 1BAMUA radiance data: 47.72 GBytes
Daily 1BAMUB radiance data: 188.26 GBytes
Daily 1BHRS3 radiance data: 110.70 GBytes
Daily 1BHRS4 radiance data: 46.44 GBytes
Daily 1BHMS radiance data: 88.03 GBytes
Atmospheric Infared Sounder Data, 2004Apr-Current: 1325.28 GBytes

DATA FORMATS:

WMO BUFR

RELATED DATASETS:

ds351.0 - NCEP ADP Global Upper Air Observational Weather Data, daily, April 2000 - continuing
ds461.0 - NCEP ADP Global Surface Observational Weather Data, daily, April 2000 - continuing

MORE DETAILS:

View more details for this dataset, including dataset citation, data contributors, and other detailed metadata

CONTACT:

For assistance with this dataset, please contact Doug Schuster (303-497-1216) or Gregg Walters (303-497-1218) . If the specialist is unavailable, please contact Data Help.

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