First ISCCP Regional Experiment (FIRE) Marine Stratocumulus National Center forAtmospheric Research (NCAR) Electra 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 seek the 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 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.Data were collected from the NCAR Electra aircraft during the FIRE Marine Stratocumulus experiment in July 1987. The data were produced by the NCAR Research Aviation Facility (RAF) Data Management Group, with the GENPRO-II data processing software. The format of these data include a header file and a data file which corresponds to all or part of a particular aircraft flight.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
33 FIRE Marine Stratocumulus National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Electra Aircraft Langley DAAC Data Set Document https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/fire/guide/base_fire_ms_electra_dataset.pdf
21 Earthdata Search for FIRE_MS_ELECTRA_1 (NASA Application to search, discover, visualize, refine, and access NASA Earth Observation data) https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/granules?p=C1000001280-LARC_ASDC
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FASDC_DAAC%2FFIRE%2F0126
35 FIRE Marine Stratocumulus sample read software and data files - Direct File Download (.ps) Readme https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/fire/readme/readme_fire_ms_electra.ps
21 ASDC Data and Information for FIRE https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/project/FIRE
21 Program to read GENPRO Formatted Files - Direct File Download (.c) https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/fire/read_software/genpro.c
21 Makefile.fci1 Release: 1.1 Date: 7/29/94 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/fire/read_software/Makefile.fci1
21 DOI data set landing page for FIRE_MS_ELECTRA_1 https://doi.org/10.5067/ASDC_DAAC/FIRE/0126
45 FIRE I-Cirrus Read Software Package - Direct File Download (.tar) https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/fire/FIRE_I-Cirrus.tar
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_MS_ELECTRA_1 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/data/FIRE/FIRE_MS_ELECTRA/
21 OPeNDAP data access for FIRE_MS_ELECTRA_1 https://opendap.larc.nasa.gov/opendap/FIRE/FIRE_MS_ELECTRA/contents.html
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
21 How to cite ASDC data https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/citing-data
21 fsdf_lib Program for reading FIRE Cirrus I, Cirrus II, and MS data sets - Direct File Download (.c) https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/fire/read_software/fire_lib.c

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  • atmospheric-radiation
  • atmospheric-water-vapor
  • atmosphere
  • atmospheric-temperature
  • atmospheric-pressure
  • clouds
  • atmospheric-winds
  • earth-science

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