The Langley Distributed Active Archive Center announces the availability of the free Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) CD-ROM. The CD-ROM is ISO9660 compliant allowing PCs, Macintoshes, and Unix machines to access it. The CD-ROM contains monthly scanner data and color images from scanning radiometers on the three ERBE satellites and for combined satellite cases. The data are provided in text format and the color images in GIF format. The data are averaged values on a 2.5 degree by 2.5 degree equal-angle grid. There are data for the period November 1984 to February 1990. Each data file contains clear-sky and all-sky values for shortwave radiation, longwave radiation, albedo, and net radiation as well as longwave cloud forcing, shortwave cloud forcing, and net cloud forcing.
This CD-ROM may be ordered from the Langley DAAC home page at http://eosdis.larc.nasa.gov/ by following the "Access Data" link to the Order Form for CD-ROMs and Videocassettes. More information may be obtained from the Langley DAAC Science, User, and Data Services Office at larc@eos.nasa.gov.
The Langley Distributed Active Archive Center, located in Hampton, Virginia, is responsible for the archival and distribution of NASA science data in the areas of radiation budget, clouds, aerosols, and tropospheric chemistry. The Langley DAAC will also archiving some of the data sets which result from the EOS program and other elements of Mission to Planet Earth. Currently archived and available for distribution are data from the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE), the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP), the Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment (SAGE), the Surface Radiation Budget (SRB), the First ISCCP Regional Experiment (FIRE), the Global Tropospheric Experiment (GTE), and the Stratospheric Aerosol Measurement (SAM) II. These data products are free of charge.
The Langley DAAC has developed an on-line computer system which allows users to logon, search through the DAAC's data inventory, choose desired data sets, and place an order. Data may be received either electronically (via ftp) or on media such as 4 mm tape, 8 mm tape, or CD-ROM (prepackaged data sets only). To access follow the "Langley DAAC Order System" link.
For users without x-windows, the new Version 0 WWW Gateway is available. This gateway allows a user to use a WWW browser to search the EOSDIS holdings and order data. Follow the "Multi-DAAC Ordering System (V0 IMS)" to the Version 0 WWW Gateway link.
Orders for prepackaged products available from the Langley DAAC may be placed through the order form for CD-ROMs and videocassettes. This form is reached through the "Order Form for CD-ROMs and Videocassettes" link.
The new ISCCP D products being archived at the Langley DAAC may be ordered from the Langley DAAC home page as well. Follow the link "Data Accessible from the Web." From this page, media and ftp orders for the ISCCP D Products can be made.
For information regarding Langley DAAC data or to place an order, please contact:
Langley DAAC Science, User, and Data Support Office
NASA Langley Research Center
Mail Stop 157D
Hampton, VA 23681-0001
Tel: (757) 864-8656; Fax: (757) 864-8807
Internet: larc@eos.nasa.gov