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. This data set contains cloud top height and ground height calculations from the NASA ER-2 Cloud LIDAR System (CLS) during the Wisconsin FIRE experiment in October, 1986.
Resources
| Name | Format | Description | Link |
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| View this dataset's data citation policy | HTML | How to cite ASDC data | Open resource |
| Download this dataset | HTML | ASDC Direct Data Download for FIRE_CI1_ER2_LIDAR_1 | Open resource |
| Downloadable software applications | TAR | FIRE I-Cirrus Read Software Package - Direct File Download (.tar) | Open resource |
| Downloadable software applications | TAR | FIRE I-Extended-Time-Observation Read Software Package - Direct File Download (.tar) | Open resource |
| Downloadable software applications | TAR | FIRE II-ASTEX Read Software Package - Direct File Download (.tar) | Open resource |
| Downloadable software applications | TAR | FIRE II-Cirrus Read Software Package - Direct File Download (.tar) | Open resource |
| Downloadable software applications | TAR | FIRE III Read Software Package - Direct File Download (.tar) | Open resource |
| View documentation related to this dataset | FIRE Cirrus 1 NASA ER-2 Cloud Lidar Langley DAAC Data Set Document | Open resource | |
| View this dataset's production history | Project/Campaign Document: Project/Campaign Document: FIRE Langley DAAC | Open resource | |
| Access to this dataset's extended metadata | HTML | LIDARFIR - Cloud top heights from airborne lidar (tape files table) | Open resource |
| Access to this dataset's extended metadata | HTML | FIRE_CI1_ER2_LIDAR_1 data table | Open resource |
| Access to this dataset's extended metadata | HTML | FIRE Cirrus 1 ER2 Lidar Table | Open resource |
| View this dataset's science data product software documentation | HTML | Read Software File for FIRE Cirrus 1 NASA ER-2 LIDAR Data Set | Open resource |
| View this dataset's science data product software documentation | HTML | Read and verify program to use with FIRE I Cirrus (SRB) data experiments. - Direct File Download (.c) | Open resource |
| View this dataset's science data product software documentation | HTML | fsdf_lib Program for reading FIRE Cirrus I, Cirrus II, and MS data sets - Direct File Download (.c) | Open resource |
| View this dataset's science data product software documentation | HTML | Program to Read D2 HDF Format Files Produced by ISCCP - Direct File Download (.f) | Open resource |
| View this dataset's how-to documentation | HTML | Readme to produce a general read program for users to access FIRE data set files in Standard Data Format (SDF) - Direct File Download (.c) | Open resource |
| View this dataset's science data product software documentation | HTML | SDF_HEADER used to parse the FIRE SDF defined header file, and two supporting functions (SDF_DDR, DDR_VAR) - Direct File Download (.c) | Open resource |
| View this dataset's science data product software documentation | HTML | VTOC_read Program for reading records of FIRE Standard Data Format (SDF) Table Of Contents (VTOC) - Direct File Download (.c) | Open resource |
| View this dataset's how-to documentation | HTML | Program to read GENPRO Formatted Files - Direct File Download (.c) | Open resource |
| View this dataset's science data product software documentation | HTML | Makefile.fci1 Release: 1.1 Date: 7/29/94 | Open resource |
| View documentation related to this dataset | HTML | ASDC Data and Information for FIRE | Open resource |
| This dataset's landing page | HTML | DOI data set landing page for FIRE_CI1_ER2_LIDAR_1 | Open resource |
| Use OPeNDAP to access the dataset's data | HTML | OPeNDAP data access for FIRE_CI1_ER2_LIDAR_1 | Open resource |
| Google Scholar search results | HTML | Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. | Open resource |
| Download this dataset through Earthdata Search | HTML | Earthdata Search for FIRE_CI1_ER2_LIDAR_1 (NASA Application to search, discover, visualize, refine, and access NASA Earth Observation data) | Open resource |