FIRE Level 2
Entry Title: First ISCCP Regional Experiment (FIRE) Cirrus 1 Colorado State University Sabreliner Aircraft Radiometric and Meteorological Data
Entry ID: FIRE_CI1_CSU_SABRE_1
Clouds Radiation Budget Field Campaigns
Description
This data set contains meteorological and radiometeric data from the NCAR Sabreliner aircraft that was collected during the 1986 FIRE Cirrus IFO. The NCAR Sabreliner research aircraft is a Rockwell International Sabreliner Model 60 aircraft, a low-wind twin-jet monoplane. The NCAR instrumentation that measured the data described above consisted of: 1. Aircraft Position, Velocity and Attitude -- Litton LTN-51 INS (Inertial Navigation System) 2. Static Pressure -- Rosemount Model 1201F1 Pressure Transducer (Fuselage Port) 3. Temperatures -- Rosemount Type 102 Non-dieced and Dieced Sensors (with Rosemount Model 510BH Amplifiers) 4. Dew Point and Humidity -- EG&G Model 137-C3 Dew Point Hygrometers -- NCAR Model LA-3 Lyman-alpha Hygrometer 5. Flow Angle Sensors -- Rosemount Model 858 Gust Probe -- Rosemount Model 1221FVL Differential Pressure Transducer 6. Cloud Physics -- Rosemount 871A Icing Rate Detector 7. Radiation Irradiances -- Shortwave Radiation (.3 - 2.8 microns): RAF Modified Epply Model PSP Pyranometers -- Near Infrared Radiation (.7 - 2.8 microns): RAF Modified Epply Model PSP Pyranometers -- Infrared Radiation (4 - 50 microns): RAF Modified Epply Model PIR Pyrgeometers
Resources and Documentation
DOWNLOAD SOFTWARE
FIRE I-Cirrus Read Software Package - Direct File Download (.tar)
FIRE I-Extended-Time-Observation Read Software Package - Direct File Download (.tar)
FIRE II-ASTEX Read Software Package - Direct File Download (.tar)
FIRE II-Cirrus Read Software Package - Direct File Download (.tar)
FIRE III Read Software Package - Direct File Download (.tar)
EXTENDED METADATA
SABRE_CI - Data from the NCAR Sabreliner - FIRE Ci (tape files table)
FIRE_CI1_CSU_SABRE_1 data table
VIEW RELATED INFORMATION
- How to cite ASDC data
DATA CITATION POLICY
- ASDC Data and Information for FIRE
- FIRE Cirrus 1 CSU Sabreliner Aircraft Langley DAAC Data Set Document
GENERAL DOCUMENTATION
- Program to read GENPRO Formatted Files - Direct File Download (.c)
- Readme to produce a general read program for users to access FIRE data set files in Standard Data Format (SDF) - Direct File Download (.c)
HOW-TO
- Project/Campaign Document: Project/Campaign Document: FIRE Langley DAAC
PRODUCTION HISTORY
- Makefile.fci1 Release: 1.1 Date: 7/29/94
- Program to Read D2 HDF Format Files Produced by ISCCP - Direct File Download (.f)
- Read Software File for FIRE Cirrus 1 Colorado State University Sabreliner Meteorological and Radiometric Data Set
- Read and verify program to use with FIRE I Cirrus (SRB) data experiments. - Direct File Download (.c)
- SDF_HEADER used to parse the FIRE SDF defined header file, and two supporting functions (SDF_DDR, DDR_VAR) - Direct File Download (.c)
- VTOC_read Program for reading records of FIRE Standard Data Format (SDF) Table Of Contents (VTOC) - Direct File Download (.c)
- fsdf_lib Program for reading FIRE Cirrus I, Cirrus II, and MS data sets - Direct File Download (.c)
SCIENCE DATA PRODUCT SOFTWARE DOCUMENTATION
Keywords
From GCMD Science Keywords:
- STATIC PRESSURE
- POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE > SURFACE TEMPERATURE
- WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR INDICATORS
- AIR TEMPERATURE > SURFACE TEMPERATURE
- ATTITUDE CHARACTERISTICS
- SURFACE WINDS
- VERTICAL WIND VELOCITY/SPEED > WIND DYNAMICS
- DEW POINT TEMPERATURE > WATER VAPOR INDICATORS
- BAROMETRIC ALTITUDE
- HUMIDITY > WATER VAPOR INDICATORS
- UPPER LEVEL WINDS
- LONGWAVE RADIATION
- CLOUD LIQUID WATER/ICE > CLOUD MICROPHYSICS
- Absolute Humidity
- Barometric Altitude
- Cloud Ice
- Deiced Sensors
- Dew Point Temperature
- Frost Point Temperature
- Icing Rate Detector
- Infrared Radiation
- NCAR Sabreliner
- Potential Temperature
- Pressure Altitude
- Relative Humidity
- Shortwave Radiation
- Specific Humidity
- Static Pressure
- Vertical Wind Speed
- Wind Direction
- Mixing Ratio
- Wind Speed
Data Distribution
File Format(s):
Native
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Spatial Information

Spatial Coverage Type: Horizontal
Coordinate System: Geodetic
Granule Spatial Representation: Geodetic
Locations
NORTH AMERICA WISCONSIN MID-LATITUDE BOUNDARY LAYER STRATOSPHERE TROPOSPHERE
Temporal Information
Temporal Coverage: 1986-10-13 - 1986-11-02
Temporal Resolution: 1 Hz