FIRE Level 2
Entry Title: First ISCCP Regional Experiment (FIRE) Cirrus Phase II National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Sabreliner Aircraft Data

Entry ID: FIRE_CI2_SABRELINER_1
Clouds Radiation Budget
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.Cirrus IFO-II was conducted from November 9 to December 8, 1991 in Coffeyville, Kansas. The NCAR Sabreliner aircraft measured radiation and microphysical properties of the cloud layers, in addition to temperature, moisture, and air motions.

DOI

10.5067/ASDC_DAAC/FIRE/0115

Citation Styles for this Dataset
Keywords

From GCMD Science Keywords:
  • UPPER LEVEL WINDS
  • CLOUD LIQUID WATER/ICE > CLOUD MICROPHYSICS
  • HUMIDITY > WATER VAPOR INDICATORS
  • AIR TEMPERATURE > SURFACE TEMPERATURE
  • SURFACE WINDS
  • CLOUD TYPES
  • SOLAR IRRADIANCE
  • WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR INDICATORS
  • ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE MEASUREMENTS
  • Air Motions
  • Cloud Microphysics
  • Deiced Sensors
  • Humidity
  • Ice Particles
  • Icing Rate Detector
  • Irradiance
  • Moisture
  • NCAR Sabreliner Aircraft
  • Pressure
  • Pressure Transducer
  • Temperature
  • Wind Direction
  • Wind Speed
  • Mixing Ratio
Data Distribution

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Spatial Information

spatial-coverage-map
Spatial Coverage: (S: 27.08, N: 38.96), (W: -99.25, E: -92.66)
Spatial Coverage Type: Horizontal
Coordinate System: Cartesian
Granule Spatial Representation: Cartesian
Locations

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

Temporal Coverage: 1991-11-17 - 1991-12-07
Platforms

Jet
T-39
Rockwell Sabreliner T-39
PYRANOMETERS
PYRANOMETERS
Pyrgeometer
Pyrgeometer
HYGROMETERS
GUST PROBES
GUST PROBES
RADIOMETERS
Metadata Dates

Created on 1999-11-09
Last updated on 2024-08-27