Nimbus-7 Earth Radiation Budget (ERB) Monthly Means

Only the most widely used fields from Nimbus-7 ERB have been archived. No attempt has been made to place these data on a T42 Gaussian grid because of their coarse resolution. Data are not available for April, May, and June 1986. These months have been coded as missing with values of 1.E+36.

SOURCE:

FORMAT: CCM1 History Tape and netCDF

GRID: Global - 4.5 degree

LEVELS: Single Level

FIELDS: Description     	                Name              Units   
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Outgoing longwave radiation A                   EMITASC           W/m^2
Outgoing longwave radiation D                   EMITDSC           W/m^2
Outgoing longwave radiation Avg of A and D      EMITSAT           W/m^2
Solar insolation at the ground Daily Avg        INSOLAR           W/m^2
Net radiation Daily Avg                         NETSAT            W/m^2
Albedo A                                        ALBEDSAT          fraction

Definitions:
	A	ascending (near local-noon) observations
	D	descending (near local-midnight) observations

TIMES:  One mean per month.

MSS Directory: /CTSAT/N7ERB/4.5DG/CCM1H/

Filename: 7887  or 7887.nc 
        e.g. 7887 contains the (CCM1) means for Nov 1978 - Oct 1987 (108 time steps).
        The ".nc" suffix indicates netCDF format, e.g. 7887.nc contains the
         (netCDF) means for Nov 1978 - Oct 1987 (108 time steps).

Current holdings: November 1978 - October 1987

Other Products Derived from this Dataset:

Long-Term Means (Climatologies)

Comments on Data
Please use the ccm2nc software to convert ccm history tape format to netCDF.
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