CAR ARCTAS BRDF Measurements V2 (CAR_ARCTAS_BRDF) at GES DISC

Description

ARCTAS focuses on advancing understanding of the factors driving current changes in the Arctic region including transport of mid-latitude pollution, boreal forest fires, aerosol radiative forcing, and chemical processes. ARCTAS aimed to use detailed observations from aircraft to provide the validation, retrieval constraints, correlative data, and process information needed to better achieve the potential of satellites for Arctic research. The plan is for the combination of satellite and aircraft data to provide together powerful information for constraining and evaluating models of Arctic atmospheric composition and climate, and thus improve model projections of future change. The first phase of ARCTAS was based in Fairbanks and Barrow, Alaska with some flights to Thule, Greenland in April and focused on thick aerosol layers known as “arctic haze.” The second phase followed in July based from Cold Lake, Alberta and the Northwest Territories focusing on the emissions from large boreal forest fires in northwest Canada. This data set consists of observations made with the CAR instrument and includes values for bidirectional reflectance factor at varying spectral bands.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 https://acdisc.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/opendap/hyrax/CAR/CAR_ARCTAS_BRDF.2/
21 Use the Earthdata Search to find and retrieve data sets across multiple data centers. https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=CAR_ARCTAS_BRDF
21 CAR Project Home Page https://car.gsfc.nasa.gov/
21 Access the data via HTTPS. https://acdisc.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/data/CAR/CAR_ARCTAS_BRDF.2/
33 README Document https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/CAR/CAR_BRDF_README-v2.pdf
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FSQSWDF366LDY
22 CAR_ARCTAS_L1C_1.jpg https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/Images/CAR_ARCTAS_L1C_1.jpg
21 Access the dataset landing page from the GES DISC website. https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datacollection/CAR_ARCTAS_BRDF_2.html

Tags

  • atmospheric-radiation
  • land-surface
  • oceans
  • atmosphere
  • ocean-optics
  • surface-radiative-properties
  • earth-science

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