FIDUCEO: Fundamental Climate Data Record of recalibrated brightness temperatures for the High-resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder (HIRS) with uncertainties, 1985 - 2016, v1.0

The FIDelity and Uncertainty in Climate data records from Earth Observations (FIDUCEO) project Fundamental Climate Data Record of recalibrated brightness temperatures for the High-resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder (HIRS) contains recalibrated brightness temperatures for HIRS for all editions of HIRS/2, HIRS/2I, HIRS/3, and HIRS/4, with metrologically traceable uncertainty estimates. This version is harmonised and anchored to infrared atmospheric sounding interferometer IASI via MetopA satellite.

It contains 40 years worth of data covering the period period 1985-03-10 to 2016-12-31. Each file contains: Basic telemetry: longitude, latitude, time, satellite and solar angles; Brightness temperatures for channels1--19; Independent and structured uncertainty for channels 1--19; A lookup table to convert between radiances and brightness temperatures for channels 1—19; A channel error correlation matrix; Two bitfields indicating identified problems with the data. For any data field that varies across the channels (such as brightness temperatures and their uncertainties).

Full documentation including product user guide, tutorials, the scientific basis and relevant publications are available in the documentation.

Date (Publication): 2019-11-08T14:12:18

Date (Creation): 2019-11-08T14:12:18

Identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/a6f20758d98c40b6b8d97357181d1175

Identifier: Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / a6f20758d98c40b6b8d97357181d1175

Author

Unavailable - Holl, Gerrit ( author )

Author

Unavailable - Mittaz, J. ( author )

Author

Unavailable - Merchant, Christopher J. ( author )

Author

Unavailable - Mollard, James ( author )

Custodian

Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - custodian

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom

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Owner

FIDUCEO Project consortium - data_owner

Distributor

Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - distributor

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom

01235446432

Principal investigator

Unavailable - Merchant, Christopher J. ( principal_investigator )

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Publisher

Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - publisher

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom

01235446432

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Update scope: dataset Dataset

Keywords

Ucnertainty
FIDUCEO
HIRS
Brightness Temperature

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

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Other constraints: Under the following licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, appropriate use of these data may fall under any use. This message is intended as guidance, always read the full licence. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.

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Metadata language: EnglishEnglish

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Begin date: 1978-10-13T00:00:00

End date: 2016-12-31T00:00:00

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

Distribution format

The file format is CF compliant NetCDF version 4. A full format specification can be found in the documentation ()

Distributor

Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - Data Center Contact

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom

01235446432

OnLine resource: CEDA Data Catalogue Page
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OnLine resource: FIDUCEO Project Website
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OnLine resource: FIDUCEO Training Materials
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OnLine resource: FIDUCEO User Tools
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OnLine resource: FIDUCEO HIRS FCDR v1.0 processing software
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OnLine resource: Metrology Cookbook
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OnLine resource: Principal behind FIDUCEO FCDR effects table
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OnLine resource: D2.2(HIRS): Report on the HIRS FCDR: Uncertainty
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OnLine resource: Scientific basis for FDCRs
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OnLine resource: Product user guide –HIRS FCDR release 1.0
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OnLine resource: FIDUCEO HIRS FCDR v1.0 release note
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OnLine resource: FIDUCEO CDR/FCDR Format Specification
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Hierarchy level: dataset Dataset

Conformance result

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Statement: Data were supplied to CEDA for archival by Jon MIttaz of the University of Reading on behalf of the H2020 FIDUCEO project

File identifier: a6f20758d98c40b6b8d97357181d1175 XML

Metadata language: EnglishEnglish

Character set: 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 UTF8

Parent identifier: FIDUCEO: Collection of Climate data records from Earth Observations Satellites from the FIDUCEO (Fidelity and uncertainty in climate data records from Earth Observations) project f6f424ff804b434685e2913e5bd2f3b0

Hierarchy level: dataset Dataset

Date stamp: 2025-05-09T02:11:26

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

Point of contact

Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom

01235446432

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