CEOS EO HANDBOOK – INSTRUMENT SUMMARY
- SCR (Nimbus-5)
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Full Name
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Selective Chopper Radiometer
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Status
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No longer operational
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Instrument Agencies
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NASA
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Maturity
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Instrument Type
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Atmospheric temperature and humidity sounders 
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Geometry
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Nadir-viewing
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Instrument Technology
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Multi-channel/direction/polarisation radiometer
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Sampling
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Data Access
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Data Format
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Measurements and Applications
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Atmospheric temperature profile
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Resolution Summary
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30 km (40 km for pressure-modulated channels)
[Best Resolution: 30000m]
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Swath Summary
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Nadir only. IFOV of the 4 channels around 668.2 cm-1: 40 km; for all other 12 channels: 30 km
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Accuracy Summary
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Waveband Summary
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16-channel radiometer, with 4 channel implemented by a correlation spectrometer exploiting pressurised CO2 cells, the other 12 by a filter wedge spectrometer
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Instrument Measurements
Measurements Overview
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Instrument Missions
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