NIMBUS-7 Mission

Identifiernimbus-7NamesNIMBUS-7 About identifiers
SeriesNIMBUSnimbus

Objectives and Applications

Mission Summary

Full Name
NIMBUS-7
Mission Status
Mission complete
Mission Agencies
NASA
Launch Date
24 Oct 1978
Mission Links
EOL Date
01 Oct 1994
EO Portal Info

Orbit Details

Orbit Type
Inclined, non-sun-synchronous
Orbit Period
99.28 minutes
Orbit Sense
N/A
Orbit Inclination
104.09 deg
Orbit Altitude
943 km
Orbit Longitude
Orbit LST
Repeat Cycle
NORAD Catalog #
11080
International Designator
1978-098A

Mission Instruments

CZCS - Coastal Zone Color Scanner nimbus-7_czcs
LIMS - Limb Infrared Monitor of the Stratosphere nimbus-7_lims
SAGE II - Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment-II nimbus-7_sage-ii
SAMS - Stratospheric and Mesospheric Sounder instrument nimbus-7_sams
SBUV/1 - Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet 2 instrument nimbus-7_sbuv-1
SMMR - Scanning Multi-channel Microwave Radiometer nimbus-7_smmr
TOMS - Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer nimbus-7_toms

Mission Measurements

CategoryParameterInstrument(s)
AtmosphereAerosols SAGE II
Atmospheric Humidity Fields SAGE II
Atmospheric Winds SAGE II
Cloud type, amount and cloud top temperature SAGE II
Ozone SAGE II, TOMS
Trace gases (excluding ozone) SAGE II, TOMS
Atmospheric Temperature Fields SAGE II
OceanOcean colour/biology CZCS
Snow & IceSea ice cover, edge and thickness SMMR

OpenSearch Datasets

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NASA MEASURES Precipitation Ensemble based on SMMR Nimbus-7 NSIDC L1B Tbs 1-orbit L2 Swath 25x25km V ...
Sea Ice Concentrations from Nimbus-7 SMMR and DMSP SSM/I-SSMIS Passive Microwave Data V002
Calibrated Enhanced-Resolution Passive Microwave Daily EASE-Grid 2.0 Brightness Temperature ESDR V00 ...
TOMS Nimbus-7 Total Ozone Aerosol Index UV-Reflectivity UV-B Erythemal Irradiances Daily L3 Global 1 ...
MEaSUREs Global Record of Daily Landscape Freeze/Thaw Status V005
TOMS/N7 MS SO2 Vertical Column 1-Orbit L2 Swath 50x50 km V3 (TOMSN7SO2)
Bootstrap Sea Ice Concentrations from Nimbus-7 SMMR and DMSP SSM/I-SSMIS V004
SBUV/Nimbus-7 Ozone (O3) Nadir Profile and Total Column 1 Day L2 V1 (SBUVN07L2)
MEaSUREs Greenland Surface Melt Daily 25km EASE-Grid 2.0 V001
TOMS/N7 Near UV Aerosol Index and LER 1-Orbit L2 50x50 km
Selected FedEO OpenSearch Results (view all 40 results: browser , table )
ESA Soil Moisture Climate Change Initiative (Soil_Moisture_cci): COMBINED Product, Version 05.3
ESA Snow Climate Change Initiative (Snow_cci): Snow Water Equivalent (SWE) level 3C daily global cli...
ESA Soil Moisture Climate Change Initiative (Soil_Moisture_cci): PASSIVE Product, Version 05.2
ESA Soil Moisture Climate Change Initiative (Soil_Moisture_cci): COMBINED Product, Version 05.2
ESA Soil Moisture Climate Change Initiative (Soil_Moisture_cci): PASSIVE product, Version 06.1
ESA Soil Moisture Climate Change Initiative (Soil_Moisture_cci): PASSIVE Product, Version 05.3
ESA Snow Climate Change Initiative (Snow_cci): Fractional Snow Cover in CryoClim, v1.0
CLIMATE APPLICATIONS: Water cycle, energy cycle, carbon cycle, numerical Weather prediction, climato...
CLIMATE APPLICATIONS: Water cycle, energy cycle, carbon cycle, numerical Weather prediction, climato...
CLIMATE APPLICATIONS: Water cycle, energy cycle, carbon cycle, numerical Weather prediction, climato...
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