Imaging · collection · 2013
THIR/Nimbus-6 Images of Daytime and Nighttime Brightness Temperature on 70 mm Film V001 (THIRN6IM)
Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR and NASA Data Portal — shown once because both records carry DOI 10.5067/5zz1mx4ma54r
The THIRN6IM data product consists of daily montages of brightness temperatures on 70 mm photofacsimile film strips from the Nimbus-6 Temperature-Humidity Infrared Radiometer measured at 6.7 and 11.5 microns.
Description
Daytime and nighttime orbital swaths are displayed in strips, each corresponding to a distance approximately from pole to pole and a width from horizon to horizon. The ground resolution of 22.6 km for 6.7 microns and 8.2 km for 11.5 microns at nadir decreases as the horizontal distance from the subsatellite track increases.
Each film strip is gridded with geographic coordinates and is identified by orbit number, time, and an indication of whether it is daytime (D) or nighttime (N). The images are saved as JPEG 2000 digital files. About 1 week of images are archived into a TAR file.
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Additional information can be found in section 2.4.1 of "The Nimbus 6 User's Guide." The Nimbus 6 Temperature-Humidity Infrared Radiometer (THIR) was designed to detect emitted thermal radiation in both the 10.5- to 12.5-micron region (IR window) and the 6.5- to 7.0-micron region (water vapor). The window channel measured cloudtop temperatures day and night. The other channel operated primarily at night to map the water vapor distribution in the upper troposphere and stratosphere.
The THIR experiment made measurements from June 18, 1975 until May 6, 1976.
Links
Get the data
- Resource disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datacollection/THIRN6IM_001.html ↗
Access the dataset landing page from the GES DISC website.
landing page · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- README Document acdisc.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/data/Nimbus6_THIR_Level1/THIRN6IM.001/doc/README.THIRN6L1.001.… ↗
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- Resource nsidc.org/data/nimbus/data ↗
Additional Nimbus data and images can be found at NSIDC
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- Nimbus 6 Data Catalog docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/repository/Mission/Nimbus/3.3_Product_Documentation/3.3.5_Prod… ↗
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- Nimbus 6 User's Guide docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/repository/Mission/Nimbus/3.3_Product_Documentation/3.3.5_Prod… ↗
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- Original Metadata cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C1273652220-GES_DISC.iso19115 ↗
download · from data nasa gov
- Access the data via HTTPS. acdisc.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/data/Nimbus6_THIR_Level1/THIRN6IM.001 ↗
download · from NASA CMR
- search.earthdata.nasa.gov /search/granules?p=C1273652220-GES_DISC ↗
Use the Earthdata Search to find and retrieve data sets across multiple data centers.
download · from NASA CMR
- JPEG docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/Images/THIRN6IM_001.jpg ↗
download · preview image · from data nasa gov, NASA CMR
Where it is published
- NASA Data Portal dataset page data.nasa.gov/dataset/thir-nimbus-6-images-of-daytime-and-nighttime-brightne… ↗
landing page · from data nasa gov
- DOI doi.org/10.5067/5zz1mx4ma54r ↗
DOI / persistent id · from NASA CMR
Catalogue records · 3
- CMR UMM-JSON cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C1273652220-GES_DISC.umm_json ↗
metadata API · from NASA CMR
- CKAN API data.nasa.gov/api/3/action/package_show?id=1eeb5c9b-d694-4b5a-8824-6d12246f9… ↗
metadata API · from data nasa gov
- CMR record cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C1273652220-GES_DISC.html ↗
catalogue entry · from NASA CMR
Topics
- Stated by source
- Brightness Temperature · Nimbus-6 · Temperature-Humidity Infrared Radiometer
- From keywords
- Astronomy & Astrophysics · Earth & Environmental Science · Engineering · Ocean & Atmospheric Science · Physics
- Inferred from text
- Image 65%
Provenance · 2 source records, 19 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| NASA Earthdata CMR | C1273652220-GES_DISC | 9 d ago | JSON v1 |
| NASA Data Portal | 1eeb5c9b-d694-4b5a-8824-6d12246f94e3 | 6 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| access_level | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:astronomy | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:engineering | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:ocean-atmospheric | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:physics | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[instrument].gcmd_instrument:thir | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/spectral-engineering/infrared-wavelengths/brightness-temperature | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[modality].local:modality:image | enrichment · NASA CMR | keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0 | title+description (65%) |
| concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:nimbus-6 | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| created_date | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/Abstract |
| license_text | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| publication_date | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| spatial | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/SpatialExtent |
| temporal | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/TemporalExtents |
| title | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/EntryTitle |
| updated_date | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| version_label | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 |