First ISCCP Regional Experiment (FIRE) Atlantic Stratocumulus Transition Experiment (ASTEX) United Kingdom Meteorological Office (UKMO) C-130 Aircraft Data

Description

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 cloud data.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 data were collected by the United Kingdom Meteorological Office (UKMO) from the Meteorological Research Flight C-130 Aircraft. This data set is a 1 to 64 Hertz time series data set.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 Meteorological Research Flight: FIRE Central Archive Catalog Information Readme https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/fire/readme/readme_fire_ax_ukmo_c130
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FASDC_DAAC%2FFIRE%2F0066
21 ASDC Data and Information for FIRE https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/project/FIRE
21 How to cite ASDC data https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/citing-data
21 Earthdata Search for FIRE_AX_UKMO_C130_1 (NASA Application to search, discover, visualize, refine, and access NASA Earth Observation data) https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/granules?p=C1000001050-LARC_ASDC
21 Read Software - FIRE Makefile for NetCDF https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/fire/read_software/fire.netcdf.rd.make.txt
21 OPeNDAP data access for FIRE_AX_UKMO_C130_1 https://opendap.larc.nasa.gov/opendap/FIRE/FIRE_AX_UKMO_C130/contents.html
21 ASDC Direct Data Download for FIRE_AX_UKMO_C130_1 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/data/FIRE/FIRE_AX_UKMO_C130/
21 Sample read software for netcdf formatted science Data Sets - Direct File Download (.c) https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/fire/read_software/fhdf_netcdf.c
33 FIRE ASTEX United Kingdom Meteorological Office C-130 Aircraft Langley DAAC Data Set Document https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/fire/guide/base_fire_ax_ukmo_c130_dataset.pdf
21 Readme Information about the FIRE_AX_UKMO_C130 data set read software https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/fire/readme/readme_fire_ax_ukmo_c130_info1
21 DOI data set landing page for FIRE_AX_UKMO_C130_1 https://doi.org/10.5067/ASDC_DAAC/FIRE/0066
33 Project/Campaign Document: Project/Campaign Document: FIRE Langley DAAC https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/fire/guide/fire_project.pdf
45 FIRE II-ASTEX Read Software Package - Direct File Download (.tar) https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/fire/FIRE_II-ASTEX.tar
45 FIRE I-Cirrus Read Software Package - Direct File Download (.tar) https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/fire/FIRE_I-Cirrus.tar
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 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

Tags

  • infrared-wavelengths
  • altitude
  • atmospheric-water-vapor
  • atmosphere
  • atmospheric-temperature
  • atmospheric-chemistry
  • spectral-engineering
  • atmospheric-pressure
  • clouds
  • microwave
  • atmospheric-winds
  • earth-science

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