FIRE Level 1B
Entry Title: First ISCCP Regional Experiment (FIRE) Atlantic Stratocumulus Transition Experiment (ASTEX) Meteosat Satellite Data

Entry ID: FIRE_AX_METEOSAT_1
Aerosols Clouds Radiation Budget Field Campaigns
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. A subset of the METEOSAT data are included for the FIRE Atlantic Stratocumulus Transition Experiment (ASTEX) region.

DOI

10.5067/ASDC_DAAC/FIRE/0040

Citation Styles for this Dataset
Keywords

From GCMD Science Keywords:
  • VISIBLE IMAGERY
  • INFRARED IMAGERY
  • GISS (Goddard Institute for Space Studies)
  • Large-Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere (LBA)
  • Radiance
Data Distribution

File Format(s):

Binary

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Spatial Information

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Spatial Coverage: (S: -60, N: 60), (W: -60, E: 60)
Spatial Coverage Type: Horizontal
Coordinate System: Cartesian
Granule Spatial Representation: Cartesian
Locations

ATLANTIC OCEAN MID-LATITUDE BOUNDARY LAYER STRATOSPHERE TROPOSPHERE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN AZORES
Temporal Information

Temporal Coverage: 1992-05-30 - 1992-06-29
Platforms

Earth Observation Satellites
METEOSAT
MSIR
Multispectral Imaging Radiometer
Metadata Dates

Created on 2000-03-17
Last updated on 2024-08-08