First ISCCP Regional Experiment (FIRE) Marine Stratocumulus National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Wind Profiler 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.There are three types of NOAA wind profiler data, all have been splined to a 25-meter vertical resolution and a 1-hour temporal resolution. Parameters include potential temperature derived from the CLASS (CSU, Steve Cox) radiosonde (100 to 2300 M above sea level), smoothed merged Pennsylvania State University (PSU) sodar and profiler wind speeds and directions (300 to 2075 M above sea level) and derived Richardson Numbers from these data (325-2050 M MSL).

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 PSUWINDS - HOURLY THETA, SPEED, DIRECTION AND RI (tape files table) https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/fire/readme/ms_noaawnds.hdr
21 ASDC Data and Information for FIRE https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/project/FIRE
21 Earthdata Search for FIRE_MS_NOAAWNDS_1 (NASA Application to search, discover, visualize, refine, and access NASA Earth Observation data) https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/granules?p=C1000001244-LARC_ASDC
21 VTOC_read Program for reading records of FIRE Standard Data Format (SDF) Table Of Contents (VTOC) - Direct File Download (.c) https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/fire/read_software/fsdf_vtoc.c
21 Makefile.fci1 Release: 1.1 Date: 7/29/94 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/fire/read_software/Makefile.fci1
21 How to cite ASDC data https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/citing-data
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FASDC_DAAC%2FFIRE%2F0130
21 FIRE_MS_NOAAWNDS_1 data table https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/fire/readme/ms_noaawnds.toc
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_noaawnds.ps
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
21 Program to Read D2 HDF Format Files Produced by ISCCP - Direct File Download (.f) https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/fire/read_software/fire_sdf.h
21 DOI data set landing page for FIRE_MS_NOAAWNDS_1 https://doi.org/10.5067/ASDC_DAAC/FIRE/0130
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 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_NOAAWNDS_1 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/data/FIRE/FIRE_MS_NOAAWNDS/
21 OPeNDAP data access for FIRE_MS_NOAAWNDS_1 https://opendap.larc.nasa.gov/opendap/FIRE/FIRE_MS_NOAAWNDS/contents.html
45 FIRE II-Cirrus Read Software Package - Direct File Download (.tar) https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/fire/FIRE_II-Cirrus.tar
33 FIRE Marine Stratocumulus NOAA Langley DAAC Data Set Document https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/fire/guide/base_fire_ms_noaawnds_dataset.pdf
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 Readme to produce a general read program for users to access FIRE data set files in Standard Data Format (SDF) - Direct File Download (.c) https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/fire/read_software/firesdf_read.c
35 Program to demonstrate how to read an MAS HDF file containing SDS's and Global Attributes using HDF function calls - Direct File Download (.f) https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/fire/readme/readme_fire_ms_noaawnds_sdfinfo.ps
21 SDF_HEADER used to parse the FIRE SDF defined header file, and two supporting functions (SDF_DDR, DDR_VAR) - Direct File Download (.c) https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/fire/read_software/fsdf_header.c

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  • atmosphere
  • atmospheric-temperature
  • atmospheric-winds
  • earth-science

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