FIRE Level 2
Entry Title: First ISCCP Regional Experiment (FIRE) Marine Stratocumulus National Center forAtmospheric Research (NCAR) Electra Aircraft Data
Entry ID: FIRE_MS_ELECTRA_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.Data were collected from the NCAR Electra aircraft during the FIRE Marine Stratocumulus experiment in July 1987. The data were produced by the NCAR Research Aviation Facility (RAF) Data Management Group, with the GENPRO-II data processing software. The format of these data include a header file and a data file which corresponds to all or part of a particular aircraft flight.
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)
VIEW RELATED INFORMATION
- How to cite ASDC data
DATA CITATION POLICY
- ASDC Data and Information for FIRE
- FIRE Marine Stratocumulus National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Electra Aircraft Langley DAAC Data Set Document
GENERAL DOCUMENTATION
- FIRE Marine Stratocumulus sample read software and data files - Direct File Download (.ps) Readme
READ-ME
- Makefile.fci1 Release: 1.1 Date: 7/29/94
- 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:
- AIR TEMPERATURE > SURFACE TEMPERATURE
- SURFACE WINDS
- HUMIDITY > WATER VAPOR INDICATORS
- SOLAR IRRADIANCE
- WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR INDICATORS
- CLOUD LIQUID WATER/ICE > CLOUD MICROPHYSICS
- CLOUD TYPES
- ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE MEASUREMENTS
- UPPER LEVEL WINDS
- BARNES PRT-5
- Air Flow Angle
- Cloud Droplet Effective Radius
- Clouds
- Deiced Sensors
- Flow Angle Sensors
- Hot-Wire Probe
- Humidity
- Irradiance
- Liquid Water Content
- NCAR Electra
- Pressure
- Presure Transducer
- Temperature
- Video Camera
- Wind Direction
- Wind Speed
- Mixing Ratio
- 200Y Probe
- 260X Probe
- Active Scattering Aerosol Spectrometer Probe (ASASP)
Data Distribution
File Format(s):
Native
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Spatial Information
Spatial Coverage Type: Horizontal
Coordinate System: Geodetic
Granule Spatial Representation: Geodetic
Locations
PACIFIC OCEAN NORTH AMERICA EQUATORIAL MID-LATITUDE BOUNDARY LAYER TROPOSPHERE CALIFORNIA UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CONTINENT
Temporal Information
Temporal Coverage: 1987-06-29 - 1987-07-18