FIRE Level 2
Entry Title: First ISCCP Regional Experiment (FIRE) Cirrus Phase II Cross-chain LORAN Atmospheric Sounding System (CLASS) Data

Entry ID: FIRE_CI2_CLASS_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 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.The Cross-chain LORAN Atmospheric Sounding System (CLASS) sonde data were collected in four locations: Arkansas City, KS; Coffeyville, KS: Iola, KS; and Muskegee, OK.

DOI

10.5067/ASDC_DAAC/FIRE/0092

Citation Styles for this Dataset
Keywords

From GCMD Science Keywords:
  • GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT
  • SURFACE WINDS
  • UPPER LEVEL WINDS
  • AIR TEMPERATURE > SURFACE TEMPERATURE
  • ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE MEASUREMENTS
  • HUMIDITY > WATER VAPOR INDICATORS
  • WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR INDICATORS
  • Geopotential Height
  • Humidity
  • Pressure
  • Temperature
  • Upper Air
  • Wind Direction
  • Wind Speed
Data Distribution

File Format(s):

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Spatial Information

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Spatial Coverage: (S: 35.65, N: 35.65), (W: -97.16, E: -95)
Spatial Coverage Type: Horizontal
Coordinate System: Geodetic
Granule Spatial Representation: Geodetic
Locations

NORTH AMERICA KANSAS MID-LATITUDE BOUNDARY LAYER STRATOSPHERE TROPOSPHERE CONTINENT UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Temporal Information

Temporal Coverage: 1991-11-06 - 1991-12-07
Temporal Resolution: Daily
Platforms

Other
GROUND STATIONS
GROUND STATIONS
RAWINSONDES
RAWINSONDES
Metadata Dates

Created on 1999-11-04
Last updated on 2019-10-25