FIRE Level 2
Entry Title: First ISCCP Regional Experiment (FIRE) Cirrus 1 NASA ER-2 Cloud Lidar System Data

Entry ID: FIRE_CI1_ER2_LIDAR_1
Clouds
Description

The First ISCCP Regional Experiments 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 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 ISCCP data, GCM parameterizations, and higher space and time resolution cloud data.To-date, four intensive field-observation 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. This data set contains cloud top height and ground height calculations from the NASA ER-2 Cloud LIDAR System (CLS) during the Wisconsin FIRE experiment in October, 1986.

DOI

10.5067/ASDC_DAAC/FIRE/0073

Citation Styles for this Dataset
Resources and Documentation

Earthdata Forum

DOWNLOAD SOFTWARE

FIRE I-Cirrus Read Software Package - Direct File Download (.tar)

FIRE I-Extended-Time-Observation Read Software Package - Direct File Download (.tar)

FIRE II-ASTEX 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)

EXTENDED METADATA

LIDARFIR - Cloud top heights from airborne lidar (tape files table)

FIRE_CI1_ER2_LIDAR_1 data table

FIRE Cirrus 1 ER2 Lidar Table

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Keywords

From GCMD Science Keywords:
  • CLOUD HEIGHT > CLOUD PROPERTIES
  • Cloud Altitudes
  • Cloud Data
  • Cloud Layers
  • Cloud Lidar System
  • Cloud Lidar System (CLS) Lidar
  • Cloud Top Height
  • Ground Height
Data Distribution

File Format(s):

Binary

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Spatial Information

spatial-coverage-map
Spatial Coverage: (S: 39.82, N: 47.5), (W: -97.5, E: -86.18)
Spatial Coverage Type: Horizontal
Coordinate System: Cartesian
Granule Spatial Representation: Cartesian
Locations

NORTH AMERICA MID-LATITUDE BOUNDARY LAYER STRATOSPHERE TROPOSPHERE WISCONSIN
Temporal Information

Temporal Coverage: 1986-10-13 - 1986-11-02
Platforms

Jet
NASA ER-2
NASA Earth Resources-2
LIDAR
Light Detection and Ranging
Metadata Dates

Created on 1999-11-07
Last updated on 2024-08-22