First ISCCP Regional Experiment (FIRE) Atlantic Stratocumulus Transition Experiment (ASTEX) Centre Meteorologie Spatiale (CMS) Daily Solar Irradiance Data

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The First ISCCP Regional Experiments have been designed to improve data products and cloud/radiation parameterizations used in general circulation models (GCMs). Specifically, the goals of FIRE are (1) to improve basic understanding of the interaction of physical processes in determining life cycles of cirrus and marine stratocumulus systems and the radiative properties of these clouds during their life cycles and (2) to investigate the interrelationships between the ISCCP data, GCM parameterizations, and higher space and time resolution clouddata.To-date, four intensive field-observation periods were planned and executed: a cirrus IFO (October 13 - November 2, 1986); a marine stratocumulus IFO off the southwestern coast of California (June 29 - July 20, 1987); a second cirrus IFO in southeastern Kansas (November 13 - December 7, 1991); and a second marine stratocumulus IFO in the eastern North Atlantic Ocean (June 1 - June 28, 1992). Each mission combined coordinated satellite, airborne, and surface observations with modeling studies to investigate the cloud properties and physical processes of the cloud systems.These files are calculations of the daily solar irradiance at the surface, based on observations by the METEOSAT. The file naming convention is: esqDDMMYYx.fis where DDMMYY is the dateThese files are: I2 pixels, 376 pixels/row, 326 rows. Each pixel has a spatial resolution of 0.04 degrees.The header of each file claims there are two channels, although the provided documentation states that there is only one channel per file.The units are: flux [tenths of Joule/cm^2]

Resources

Name Format Description Link
33 FIRE ASTEX Centre de Meteorologie Spatiale (CMS) Langley DAAC Data Set Document https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/fire/guide/base_fire_ax_cms_dataset.pdf
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FASDC_DAAC%2FFIRE%2F0012
21 ASDC Data and Information for FIRE https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/project/FIRE
21 Readme Information about the FIRE ASTEX CMS sample read software and data files https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/fire/readme/readme_fire_ax_cms_solar_dy.txt
21 DOI data set landing page for FIRE_AX_CMS_SOLAR_DY_1 https://doi.org/10.5067/ASDC_DAAC/FIRE/0012
45 FIRE II-ASTEX Read Software Package - Direct File Download (.tar) https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/fire/FIRE_II-ASTEX.tar
45 FIRE II-Cirrus Read Software Package - Direct File Download (.tar) https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/fire/FIRE_II-Cirrus.tar
45 FIRE III Read Software Package - Direct File Download (.tar) https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/fire/FIRE_III.tar
21 ASDC Direct Data Download for FIRE_AX_CMS_SOLAR_DY_1 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/data/FIRE/FIRE_AX_CMS_SOLAR_DY/
21 OPeNDAP data access for FIRE_AX_CMS_SOLAR_DY_1 https://opendap.larc.nasa.gov/opendap/FIRE/FIRE_AX_CMS_SOLAR_DY/contents.html
21 Makefile.fci2 Release: 1.1 Date: 3/22/94 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/fire/read_software/Makefile.fire_ax_cms
21 CMS Statement on satellite-based series of images as part of ASTEX Readme https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/fire/readme/readme_fire_ax_cms_solar_dy_info1.txt
21 CMS Read program to interpret CMS binary raster data files - Direct File Download (.c) https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/fire/read_software/fire_ax_cms_read.c
21 Earthdata Search for FIRE_AX_CMS_SOLAR_DY_1 (NASA Application to search, discover, visualize, refine, and access NASA Earth Observation data) https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/granules?p=C1000000981-LARC_ASDC
21 How to cite ASDC data https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/citing-data
45 FIRE I-Extended-Time-Observation Read Software Package - Direct File Download (.tar) https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/fire/FIRE_I-Extended-Time-Observation.tar
45 FIRE I-Cirrus Read Software Package - Direct File Download (.tar) https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/fire/FIRE_I-Cirrus.tar

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  • atmospheric-radiation
  • atmosphere
  • earth-science

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