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THIR/Nimbus-7 Level 1 Cloud Data for SBUV/TOMS V001 (THIRN7L1BCLT) at GES DISC

Metadata Updated: April 11, 2025

THIRN7L1BCLT is the Nimbus-7 Temperature-Humidity Infrared Radiometer (THIR) Level 1 Cloud Data for SBUV/TOMS (BCLT) product and contains total cloud amounts; radiances at three cloud altitudes: low (below 2km), middle (2 to 7 km depending on latitude), and height (above the middle cloud layer); cirrus and deep convective clouds; and mean and RMS deviations of cloud and surface radiances. Data are averaged orbit by orbit onto each of the Nimbus 7 TOMS IFOV, which vary from 50 km to 50 km at nadir to 200 km x 200 km at the edges, as well as SBUV 180 km x 180 km IFOVs. The BCLT product includes improved cloud estimation compared to the earlier CLT product.

Each file contains one day of data (~14 orbits per day). Spatial coverage is global. The data are available from October 31, 1978 (day of year 304) through October 27, 1984 (day of year 301).

This product was previously available from the NSSDC with the identifier ESAD-00196 (old ID 78-098A-10E)

Access & Use Information

Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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Dates

Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
Metadata Updated Date April 11, 2025

Metadata Source

Harvested from NASA Data.json

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
Metadata Updated Date April 11, 2025
Publisher NASA/GSFC/SED/ESD/GCDC/GESDISC
Maintainer
Identifier C1415263464-GES_DISC
Data First Published 2017-07-31
Language en-US
Data Last Modified 2025-03-31
Category Nimbus, geospatial
Public Access Level public
Bureau Code 026:00
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Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
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Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
Homepage URL https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov:443/search/concepts/C1415263464-GES_DISC.html
Metadata Type geospatial
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Program Code 026:001
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 26cc079270dd4c63383b9d9e9738773e49d858d4d1d728d06ee4e409998e7589
Source Schema Version 1.1
Spatial
Temporal 1978-10-31T00:00:00Z/1984-10-28T23:59:59.999Z

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