Overview
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/717 |
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| Version | 1 |
| Project | |
| Published | 2004-06-28 |
| Updated | 2004-06-28 |
| Usage | 260 downloads |
Description
NOAA's TIROS (Television Infrared Observation Satellite) Operational Vertical Sounder (TOVS) is a suite of three sensors: the Microwave Sounding Unit (MSU), the High resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder (HIRS), and the Stratospheric Sounding Unit (SSU) aboard the NOAA series of polar-orbiting operational meteorological satellites. TOVS-derived data provide a means to investigate long-term climate change and interannual variability and study local and periodic phenomena such as El Nino and stratospheric warmings. A set of the derived meteorological parameters for southern Africa have been selected by SAFARI 2000.
Science Keywords
- ATMOSPHERE
- ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION
- OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATION
- ATMOSPHERE
- ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION
- RADIATIVE FORCING
- ATMOSPHERE
- ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE
- SURFACE TEMPERATURE
- AIR TEMPERATURE
- ATMOSPHERE
- ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE
- SURFACE TEMPERATURE
- SKIN TEMPERATURE
- ATMOSPHERE
- ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR
- WATER VAPOR INDICATORS
- WATER VAPOR
- ATMOSPHERE
- CLOUDS
- CLOUD PROPERTIES
- CLOUD FREQUENCY
- ATMOSPHERE
- CLOUDS
- CLOUD PROPERTIES
- CLOUD TOP PRESSURE
- ATMOSPHERE
- PRECIPITATION
- PRECIPITATION AMOUNT
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- tovs_pentad_atmosphere_doc.pdf