FIRE Level 2
Entry Title: First ISCCP Regional Experiment (FIRE) Atlantic Stratocumulus Transition Experiment (ASTEX) PSU Valdivia Ceilometer Data

Entry ID: FIRE_AX_PSU_CEIL_VAL_1
Clouds
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.

DOI

10.5067/ASDC_DAAC/FIRE/0045

Citation Styles for this Dataset
Keywords

From GCMD Science Keywords:
  • CLOUD HEIGHT > CLOUD PROPERTIES
  • CLOUD TYPES
  • CLOUD BASE HEIGHT > CLOUD PROPERTIES
  • Cloud Base Height
  • Valdivia
Data Distribution

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Spatial Information

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Spatial Coverage: (S: 20, N: 60), (W: -70, E: 0)
Spatial Coverage Type: Horizontal
Coordinate System: Geodetic
Granule Spatial Representation: Geodetic
Locations

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

Temporal Coverage: 1992-06-05 - 1992-06-25
Temporal Resolution: Daily
Platforms

In Situ Ocean-based Platforms
SHIPS
CEILOMETERS
Metadata Dates

Created on 2000-03-17
Last updated on 2022-10-31