FIRE Level 2
Entry Title: First ISCCP Regional Experiment (FIRE) Atlantic Stratocumulus Transition Experiment (ASTEX) Valdivia Radiosonde Data

Entry ID: FIRE_AX_VALDIV_SONDE_1
Aerosols Clouds Radiation Budget Field Campaigns
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 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 the ISCCP data, GCM parameterizations, and higher space and time resolution cloud data.Radiosonde data were collected during the FIRE ASTEX for time period May 28, 1992 through June 22, 1992 from the Valdivia (ship). There are 3 sets of interpolated sounding data. They are 5-second, 20-meter, and 2-millibar.Each file contains a 5-line header. The first line is the site name (up to 16 characters), the next line is the latitude and longitude at the time of launch, the third contains the date-time group at launch in YYMMDDHHMM format. Lines 4 and 5 describe the data to follow, which comprise no more that 1500 additional lines. The data are: minutes, seconds past launch, ascent rate, height, pressure, temperature, relative humidity, dew point, mixing ratio and wind speedand direction.

DOI

10.5067/ASDC_DAAC/FIRE/0071

Citation Styles for this Dataset
Keywords

From GCMD Science Keywords:
  • AIR TEMPERATURE > SURFACE TEMPERATURE
  • HUMIDITY > WATER VAPOR INDICATORS
  • WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR INDICATORS
  • SURFACE WINDS
  • OSCILLATIONS
  • UPPER LEVEL WINDS
  • Dew Point Temperature
  • Frost Point Temperature
  • Pressure
  • Relative Humidity
  • Sounding Data
  • Upper Air
  • Wind Direction
  • Wind Speed
  • Mixing Ratio
Data Distribution

File Format(s):

Native

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Spatial Information

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Spatial Coverage: (S: 27.1, N: 46.01), (W: -26.07, E: -11.92)
Spatial Coverage Type: Horizontal
Coordinate System: Geodetic
Granule Spatial Representation: Geodetic
Locations

ATLANTIC OCEAN NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN MID-LATITUDE BOUNDARY LAYER STRATOSPHERE TROPOSPHERE
Temporal Information

Temporal Coverage: 1992-05-28 - 1992-06-22
Platforms

Vessels
Ships
RADIOSONDES
RADIOSONDES
RADIOSONDES
Metadata Dates

Created on 1999-11-04
Last updated on 2024-03-25