DMSP Total Ozone, Calibrated Radiance and Total Ozone Grid Point Data Archived at NSSDC

The objective of this experiment was to obtain vertical temperature, water
vapor, and ozone profiles of the atmosphere to support Department of Defense
requirements in operational weather analysis and forecasting.

Dataset: TOTAL OZONE AND CALIBRATED RADIANCE DATA
These data sets are contained on 6250-bpi, 9-track, binary tapes. The
multichannel filter radiometer (MFR) was a scanning instrument carried
on the DMSP satellite and was used to calibrate the total column ozone
globally. The infrared MFR sensors made both daytime and nighttime
observations, thus permitting a possible 67,500 observations every 24
h by satellite. The MFR instruments were unique in that they each had
a channel for measurements of upwelling radiation in the 9.6
micrometer band of ozone. Uncalibrated radiance data were calibrated
and mapped to earth coordinates at Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory (LLNL), thus deriving a total column ozone. Both the ozone
and calibrated radiance data were placed in a computer data base
called Satellite Ozone Analysis Center (SOAC). The data base was
constructed on a VAX 11/780 computer with a VMS operating system using
the FRAMIS code, a relational data base manager. The data base
contains the MFR total ozone calibrated radiance data from all four
DMSP block 5D-1 satellites.

These datasets include:

NSSDC-ID Source Time-Coverage
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76-091A-02A DMSP 5D-1/F1 1977-03-25 - 1977-07-23
77-044A-02A DMSP 5D-1/F2 1977-07-13 - 1980-02-16
78-042A-02A DMSP 5D-1/F3 1978-07-23 - 1980-02-05
79-050A-02A DMSP 5D-1/F4 1979-06-17 - 1980-02-06

Dataset: MFR TOTAL OZONE GRID POINT DATA ONMAGNETIC TAPE
The gridded ozone data are archived on two 6250-bpi tapes in blocks of
9380 ASCII characters. Each block contains 20 records; each record
contains 469 characters. An ozone grid point value is expressed to
the nearest tenth of a m-atm-cm. Each file on a tape represents the
gridded data for 1 calendar day beginning at 0000Z Greenwich Mean Time
(GMT). A file may contain as many as four grids, one for each of the
DMSP block 5D-1 satellites. The grid in each hemisphere is a 67 x 67
rectangular matrix of points superposed on a polar stereographic map
base.

These datasets include:

NSSDC-ID Source Time-Coverage
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76-091A-02B DMSP 5D-1/F1 1977-03-25 - 1977-07-23
77-044A-02B DMSP 5D-1/F2 1977-07-13 - 1980-02-16
78-042A-02B DMSP 5D-1/F3 1978-07-23 - 1980-02-05
79-050A-02B DMSP 5D-1/F4 1979-06-17 - 1980-02-06