FIRE.CIIFO.GSFC.000001.0.19861013.19861102 DENNIS HLAVKA/JIM SPINHIRNE CODE 617 ROOM 315 BUILDING 22 NASA/GSFC GREENBELT, MD 20771 USA 19880824 19880620 6250 IBM 3081 UNDER MV/CMS IBM 0123456789=:>/STUVWXYZ,(JKLMNOPQR*];+ABCDEFGHI.)[< THIS TAPE CONTAINS CLOUD TOP HEIGHT AND GROUND HEIGHT CALCULATIONS FROM THE ER2 CLOUD LIDAR SYSTEM (CLS) DURING THE WISCONSIN FIRE EXPERIMENT IN OCTOBER, 1986. LATITUDE, LONGITUDE, PLANE HEIGHT, ETC ARE ALSO INCLUDED IN EACH RECORD. UNDETECTED CLOUD TOPS AND GROUND HEIGHTS ARE SIGNIFIED BY VALUES OF -9.9 AFTER DECODING. END OF GENERAL SEGMENT END OF ANCILLARY SEGMENT RECORD NAME: LIDARFIR - CLOUD TOP HEIGHTS FROM AIRBORNE LIDAR 80 4800 JIM SPINHIRNE CODE 617 ROOM 315 BUILDING 22 NASA/GSFC GREENBELT, MD 20771 USA ER2 LIDAR OBSER:HIGH ALTITUDE LIDAR OBSERVATIONS OF CIRRUS CLOUDS CALS :CLOUD AEROSAL LIDAR SYSTEM FILE NUMBER FNUM I*4 I5 31 0 1.0 1.0 0 99999 REC NO FOR FILE RNUM I*4 I7 31 0 1.0 1.0 0 9999999 REC NO FOR TAPE TSEQ I*4 I7 31 0 1.0 1.0 0 999999 REC NO FOR DSET DSEG I*4 I7 31 0 1.0 1.0 0 999999 YEAR YEAR I*4 I4 31 0 1.0 1.0 0 9999 MONTH MONTH I*4 I2 31 0 1.0 1.0 1 12 DAY DAY I*4 I2 31 0 1.0 1.0 1 31 HOUR HOUR I*4 I2 31 0 1.0 1.0 0 23 MINUTE MIN I*4 I2 31 0 1.0 1.0 0 59 SECONDS SEC I*4 I2 31 0 1.0 1.0 0 59 MILLISECONDS MSEC I*4 I3 31 0 1.0 1.0 0 999 LATITUDE LAT I*4 DEGREES F7.3 11 -90 0.001 0.001 -90.000 90.000 LONGITUDE LON I*4 DEGREES F8.3 11 -180 0.001 0.001 -180.000 180.000 HEIGHT OF PLANE PHITE I*4 KILOMETERS F7.3 11 0 0.001 0.001 0.000 25.000 SPEED OF PLANE SPEED I*4 KM/SEC F5.3 11 0 0.001 0.001 0.000 1.000 PITCH OF PLANE PITCH I*4 DEGREES F4.1 11 -90 0.1 0.1 -90.00 90.0 ROLL OF PLANE ROLL I*4 DEGREES F5.1 11 -180 0.1 0.1 -180.0 180.0 CLOUDTOP HEIGHT CTOP I*4 KILOMETERS F14.3 11 0 0.001 0.001 0.000 25.000 GROUND HEIGHT GROUND I*4 KILOMETERS F14.3 4 -1 0.001 0.001 -0.900 9.000 INSTRUMENT DESCRIPTION: NASA/GSFC ER2 LIDAR SYSTEM OPERATING AT 532NM DUAL CHANNEL POLARIZED VERTICAL RESOLUTION 7.5 METERS. TEMPORAL CHARACTERISTICS: FLIGHTS WERE 2 TO 4 HOURS LONG. FLIGHT LINES WERE 3 TO 18 MINUTES LONG. THE LIDAR FIRED APPROX 5 SHOTS PER SEC. SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS: ONE FLIGHT COVERED 1450-3000 KM. ONE FLIGHT LINE COVERED 37-221 KILOMETERS. CALIBRATION INFO: NONE TO DATE. REFERENCES: SPINHIRNE JD, HANSEN MZ, SIMPSON J. 1983 "THE STRUCTURE AND PHASE OF CLOUD TOPS AS OBSERVED BY POLARIZATION LIDAR" J. APPL. METEOR. 22, 1319. SOFTWARE: END OF OBSERVATION SEGMENT