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NASA Earth Radiation Budget Satellite (ERBS) Products The NASA Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) dataset contains data collected simultaneously by identical ERB instruments on three satellites: the NASA Earth Radiation Budget Satellite (ERBS), launched in October 1984, and two National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Sun-synchronous operational satellites, NOAA-9 and NOAA-10, launched in December 1984 and November 1986, respectively. The ERBE satellites have provided the most comprehensive and best resolved ERB measurements ever obtained. The ERBE scanner instrument package contains
three instruments used to measure shortwave (0.2 to 5 microns), longwave (5
to 50 microns), and total waveband radiation (0.2 to 200 microns). Each
detector scans the Earth from horizon to horizon. The scanners usually
operated in a cross track mode; However, ERBS scanned in an along track
mode during January 1985 and August 1985, and at an azimuth of 145° during
hot orbit periods from December 1985 through February 1990. NOAA-9 operated
along track during August of 1985. The NOZZ-10 scanner operated at an azimuth
of 35° from January through mid-May and from mid-August through December of
each year. (Weaver et al. 1991 and 1992, Bush and Degnan 1994). This dataset is from IRI.
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