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STAR / SMCD / SPB Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet (SBUV/2) Project - Data Products

NOAA-16 (2000-2014)

NOAA-16 Satellite

NOAA-16 SBUV was launched on September 21, 2000 into a 470- nmi afternoon orbit. The instrument was declared operational on March 20, 2001 and was decomissioned on June 9, 2014 after the spacecraft suffered a serious anomaly on June 6, 2014. NOAA-16's orbit drifted all the way past midnight and into a morning equator crossing time before it was lost. It's data quality had declined since late 2008 due to the orbit precession.

Ozone Data

NOAA-16 SBUV/2 Profile Total Ozone files (Ver. 8, DVD ASCII format)

Please see the readme file below for data information and caveats!

README 1st
Sample software for opening daily PMF files
- readcompv8sbuv_sg_F90.txt (FORTRAN90)
- read_compv8sbuv_sg.pro (IDL)

Shortcut to the data:

NOAA-16