Description

The LASE Southern Great Plains (SGP97) field experiment was conducted in Oklahoma during June-July 1997. SGP97 was a NASA EOS Interdisciplinary Science Investigation to validate soil moisture retrieval algorithms at satellite temporal and spatial scales using remote sensing moisture measurements from aircraft and in situ soil measurements. One of the major objectives of SGP97 was the study of the impact of soil moisture on the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) development. To aid convective boundary layer (CBL) studies, LASE was deployed on the NASA P-3B aircraft along with other instruments. LASE (Lidar Atmospheric Sensing Experiment) airborne lidar produces measurements of aerosols and water vapor vertical profiles from the aircraft altitude (6-8 km) down to the surface. Such profiles show the vertical context in which the SGP97 in situ and radiometric measurements are made, thus supporting the vertical extension of the in situ measurements and detecting any unsampled layers or inhomogeneities, which would impact the surface and airborne measurements.

DOI

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Citation Styles for this Dataset

Resources and Documentation

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Earthdata Forum

PROFESSIONAL HOME PAGE

NASA Lidar Applications Group

NASA Mission Overview of Global Tropospheric Experiment (GTE)

PROJECT HOME PAGE

SGP97 home page

VIEW RELATED INFORMATION

DATA CITATION POLICY

• How to cite ASDC data

GENERAL DOCUMENTATION

• ASDC Data and Information for GTE
• ASDC Data and Information for LASE
• GTE - Data Archive Format Document, September 1994
• Global TroposphericExperiment (GTE) Langley DAAC Project/Campaign Document
• LASE Southern Great Plains (SGP97) Langley DAAC Data Set Document
• NASA LaRC GTE Data Format Document, August 2000
• NASA.gov LASE Fact Sheet
• Project/Campaign Document: LASE Langley DAAC

INSTRUMENT/SENSOR CALIBRATION DOCUMENTATION

• LIDAR Applications Group overview of the LASE system

MICRO ARTICLE

• NASA Earth Observatory Article: "Critical Chemistry" By Dan Whipple, February 14, 2000

PRODUCT USAGE

• SGP97 Experiment: LASE Aerosol and Water Vapor Distributions Overview

PUBLICATIONS

• ARM Research Publications

READ-ME

• LASE_SGP97 Readme

SCIENCE DATA PRODUCT SOFTWARE DOCUMENTATION

• Code for reading LASE data files - Direct File Download (.c)

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