NOAA-13 Satellite Mission Summary

NOAA-13 Mission

Identifiernoaa-13NamesNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - 13NOAA-13 About identifiers

SeriesPOESpoes

Objectives and Applications

Meteorology, agriculture and forestry, environmental monitoring, climatology, physical oceanography, Volcanic eruption monitoring, ice and snow cover, total ozone studies, space environment, solar flux analysis.

Mission Summary

Full Name

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - 13

Mission Status

Mission complete

Mission Agencies

NOAA

Launch Date

09 Aug 1993

Mission Links

mission site

EOL Date

21 Aug 1993

EO Portal Info

Orbit Details

Orbit Type

Sun-synchronous

Orbit Period

Orbit Sense

TBD

Orbit Inclination

Orbit Altitude

850 km

Orbit Longitude

Orbit LST

Repeat Cycle

NORAD Catalog #

22739

International Designator

1993-050A

Mission Instruments

A-DCS3 - Argos Advanced Data Collection System3 noaa-13_a-dcs3

AVHRR/2 - Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer/2 noaa-13_avhrr-2

EHIC - Energetic Heavy Ion Composition Experiment noaa-13_ehic

HIRS/2 - High Resolution Infra-red Sounder/2 noaa-13_hirs-2

MAXIE - Magnetospheric Atmospheric X-ray Imaging Experiment noaa-13_maxie

MSU - Microwave Sounding Unit noaa-13_msu

NOAA Comms - Communications package for NOAA noaa-13_noaa-comms

S&R (NOAA) - Search and Rescue Satellite Aided Tracking noaa-13_s-r-noaa

SBUV/2 - Solar Backscattter Ultra-Violet Instrument/2 noaa-13_sbuv-2

SEM (POES) - Space Environment Monitor noaa-13_sem-poes

SSU - Stratospheric Sounding Unit noaa-13_ssu

Mission Measurements

Category	Parameter	Instrument(s)
Atmosphere	Atmospheric Humidity Fields	HIRS/2
	Cloud type, amount and cloud top temperature	AVHRR/2, HIRS/2
	Liquid water and precipitation rate	MSU
	Ozone	HIRS/2, SBUV/2
	Radiation budget	AVHRR/2, HIRS/2, SBUV/2
	Trace gases (excluding ozone)	HIRS/2
	Atmospheric Temperature Fields	HIRS/2, MSU, SSU
Land	Vegetation	AVHRR/2
	Surface temperature (land)	HIRS/2
	Multi-purpose imagery (land)	AVHRR/2
Ocean	Surface temperature (ocean)	AVHRR/2
Snow & Ice	Snow cover, edge and depth	AVHRR/2

OpenSearch Datasets

Selected IDN OpenSearch Results (search all 18 )

Alaska AVHRR Twice-Monthly Composites

AVHRR Level-1B/1C Local Area Coverage Imagery

AVHRR 1-km Global Land 10-Day Composites

CEOS Cal Val Test Site - Dome C, Antarctica - Instrumented Site

CEOS Cal Val Test Site - Dunhuang, China - Instrumented Site

CEOS Cal Val Test Site - Frenchman Flat, USA - Instrumented Site

CEOS Cal Val Test Site - Ivanpah Playa, USA - Instrumented Site

CEOS Cal Val Test Site - La Crau, France - Instrumented Site

CEOS Cal Val Test Site - Libya 1 - Pseudo-Invariant Calibration Site (PICS)

CEOS Cal Val Test Site - Mauritania 1 - Pseudo-Invariant Calibration Site (PICS)

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