CAR FIREACE Arctic Ice and Cloud Radiation BRDF V2 (CAR_FIREACE_BRDF) at GES DISC

Description

The scientific objectives of FIRE/ACE are to study impact of Arctic clouds on radiation exchange between surface, atmosphere, and space, and the influence of surface characteristics of sea ice, leads, and ice melt ponds on these clouds. FIRE/ACE will attempt to document, understand, and predict the Arctic cloud-radiation feedbacks, including changes in cloud fraction and vertical distribution, water vapor cloud content, cloud particle concentration and size, and cloud phase as atmospheric temperature and chemical composition change. FIRE/ACE uses the data to focus on improving current climate model simulations of the Arctic climate, especially with respect to clouds and their effects on the surface energy budget. In addition, FIRE/ACE addresses a number of scientific questions dealing with radiation, cloud microphysics, and atmospheric chemistry. 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 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FKHFVLOHOCSWU
21 Access the data via HTTPS. https://acdisc.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/data/CAR/CAR_FIREACE_BRDF.2/
21 CAR Project Home Page https://car.gsfc.nasa.gov/
33 README Document https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/CAR/CAR_BRDF_README-v2.pdf
22 CAR_FIREACE_L1C_1.jpg https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/Images/CAR_FIREACE_L1C_1.jpg
21 Use the Earthdata Search to find and retrieve data sets across multiple data centers. https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=CAR_FIREACE_BRDF
21 Access the dataset landing page from the GES DISC website. https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datacollection/CAR_FIREACE_BRDF_2.html
21 Access the data via the OPeNDAP protocol. https://acdisc.gsfc.nasa.gov/opendap/CAR/CAR_FIREACE_BRDF.2/contents.html

Tags

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

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