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    • LIMS/Nimbus-7 Level 1 Radiance Data V001 (LIMSN7L1RAT) at GES DISC

    Metadata Updated: April 10, 2026

    LIMSN7L1RAT is the Nimbus-7 Limb Infrared Monitor of the Stratosphere (LIMS) Level-1 Radiance Data product. It contains calibrated, earth-located radiances, as well as housekeeping information, instrument status, and data quality information. Radiances of the Earth limb were measured both day and night in six spectral bands (6.2, 6.3, 9.6, 11.3, and two at 15 micrometers). Though calibrated, the radiances are not corrected for instrument effects such as field-of-view, electronic delay, and spacecraft motion. Each file contains one orbit of data (~14 orbits per day). LIMS is a limb profiler and spatial coverage is near global between latitude -64 and +84 degrees. Vertical coverage is from about 10 to 50 km (O3 channel to 65 km), with vertical resolution of about 1.5 km. The data are available from 25 October 1978 through 30 May 1979. The principal investigators for the LIMS experiment were Dr. James M. Russell, III from NASA Langley and Dr. John Gille from NCAR. This product was previously available from the NASA National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC) under the name LIMS Radiance Archival Data with the identifier ESAC-00032 (old id 78-098A-01B).

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: See this page for license information.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date June 2, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date April 10, 2026

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    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date June 2, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date April 10, 2026
    Publisher NASA/GSFC/SED/ESD/TISL/GESDISC
    Maintainer
    Identifier 10.5067/PVCC3UMCTGEP
    Data Last Modified 2026-04-06
    Category Earth Science
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id 20e8f73b-a2dc-4d28-83f6-b8c53fa4243e
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    License https://www.usa.gov/government-works
    Old Spatial "CARTESIAN",{"WestBoundingCoordinate":-180,"NorthBoundingCoordinate":84,"EastBoundingCoordinate":180,"SouthBoundingCoordinate":-64}
    Program Code 026:000
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash cb6f7a0d296141173ff3b92fa93e11fe08ffd1de8fc902938edf1320e79d9cc2
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 1978-10-25/1979-05-30

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