NOAA TOVS Digital Soundings
https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/4.10

Summary
Two NOAA polar orbiting satellites carried the TOVS system during STORM-FEST.
TOVS carried: High Resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder (HIRS/2) measured
incident radiation primarily in the IR; Microwave Sounding Unit (MSU) a
passivescanning microwave spectrometer with 4 channels; Stratospheric Sounding
Unit (SSU), a step-scanning far- infrared spectrometer with 3 channels; Solar
Backscattered Ultraviolet system (SBUV/2) maps total ozone concentrations and
vertical ozone distirbutions. Up to 4 overpasses of theSTORM-FEST region were
made daily (1600 km swath).

Identifiers
 * Local archive identifier: 4.10

Citation
 National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS),
 NOAA. 2006. NOAA TOVS Digital Soundings. Version 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth
 Observing Laboratory. https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/4.10 Accessed 23 Apr
 2024.

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Acknowledgement
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please acknowledge NCAR/EOL in your publications with text such as:

  Data provided by NCAR/EOL under the sponsorship of
  the National Science Foundation.
  https://data.eol.ucar.edu/

Related projects
 * STORM-FEST: USWRP/STORM Fronts Experiment Systems Test
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project/STORM-FEST

Additional information
 * Spatial Type: grid
 * Frequency: criteria
 * Language: English

Categories
 * Satellite

Platforms
 * NOAA POES

Instruments
 * High Resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder/3 - HIRS/3
 * Microwave Sounding Unit - MSU
 * Stratospheric Sounding Unit - SSU
 * TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder - TOVS

GCMD Science Keywords
 * EARTH SCIENCE > SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING > INFRARED WAVELENGTHS > BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE
 * EARTH SCIENCE > SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING > MICROWAVE > BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE

Related links
 * homepage: STORM-FEST
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/field_projects/storm-fest

Temporal coverage
 * Begin datetime: 1992-02-01 00:00:00 
 * End datetime: 1992-03-15 23:59:59 

Spatial coverage
 * Maximum (North) Latitude: 45.00
 * Minimum (South) Latitude: 30.00
 * Minimum (West) Longitude: -105.00
 * Maximum (East) Longitude: -85.00

Primary contact information
 * pointOfContact: Thomas F. Ross <tom.ross@noaa.gov>
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/12

Additional contact information
 * originator: National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS), NOAA
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/457

Alternate metadata formats
 * DataCite: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/4.10?format=datacite
 * ISO/TC 211: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/4.10?format=isotc211