FIRE Level 2
Entry Title: First ISCCP Regional Experiment (FIRE) Atlantic Stratocumulus Transition Experiment (ASTEX) PSU Malcolm Baldridge Data
Entry ID: FIRE_AX_PSU_MALBAL_1
Clouds Radiation Budget
Description
The First ISCCP Regional Experiments (FIRE) 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 International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) data, GCM parameterizations, and higher space and time resolution cloud data. To-date, four intensive field-observation (IFO) 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.
Resources and Documentation
DOWNLOAD SOFTWARE
FIRE II-ASTEX Read Software Package - Direct File Download (.tar)
FIRE I-Cirrus Read Software Package - Direct File Download (.tar)
FIRE I-Extended-Time-Observation 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 ASTEX Marine Aerosol Gas Exchange (MAGE) Langley DAAC Data Set Document
GENERAL DOCUMENTATION
- Project/Campaign Document: Project/Campaign Document: FIRE Langley DAAC
PRODUCTION HISTORY
- Readme to read the FIRE ASTEX Malcolm Baldrige Data Set - Direct File Download (.c)
SCIENCE DATA PRODUCT SOFTWARE DOCUMENTATION
Keywords
From GCMD Science Keywords:
- HUMIDITY > WATER VAPOR INDICATORS
- UPPER LEVEL WINDS
- SOLAR RADIATION
- OPTICAL DEPTH/THICKNESS
- SURFACE WINDS
- WIND STRESS > WIND DYNAMICS
- SOLAR IRRADIANCE
- SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE
- ABSORPTION
- AIR TEMPERATURE > SURFACE TEMPERATURE
- HEAT FLUX
- REFLECTANCE
- WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR INDICATORS
- TRANSMITTANCE
- CLOUD TYPES
- INFRARED FLUX
- PRECIPITATION RATE
- Clouds
- Irradiance
- Latent Heat Flux
- Liquid Water Content
- Malcolm Baldridge
- Precipitation Rate
- Sea Surface Temperature
- Sensible Heat Flux
- Solar Absorption
- Solar Reflectance
- Solar Transmittance
- Sonic Anemometer
- Specific Humidity
- Surface Stress
- System Optical Depth
- Wind Direction
- Wind Speed
Data Distribution
File Format(s):
ASCII
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Spatial Information
Spatial Coverage Type: Horizontal
Coordinate System: Cartesian
Granule Spatial Representation: Cartesian
Locations
ATLANTIC OCEAN NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN EQUATORIAL MID-LATITUDE BOUNDARY LAYER STRATOSPHERE TROPOSPHERE AZORES OCEAN
Temporal Information
Temporal Coverage: 1992-06-06 - 1992-06-28