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Aura Validation Experiment S-HIS Houston 2005 Quicklook Page
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| Flight Date | Sortie # | Mission Summary | Start Time (UTC) | End Time (UTC) | Flight Length (Hours) | AURA Orbit w/ TES |
| 050609 | AVE001 | Test Flight | 1809 | 2135 | 3.5 | image |
| 050611 | AVE002 | Tropical Storm Arlene Overflight | 1606 | 2100 | 5 | image |
| 050613 | AVE003 | MLS Validation | 1743 | 2245 | 5 | image |
| 050615 | AVE004 | MMS Validation | 1748 | 2243 | 5 | image |
| 050617 | AVE005 | 1713 | 2236 | 5.7 | image | |
| 050619 | AVE006 | 1847 | 2330 | 4.8 | image | |
| 050621 | AVE007 | 1949 | 2359 | 4.3 | image | |
| 050622 | AVE008 | 1830 | image | |||
| Total Flight Hours: | 33.3 | |||||
Instrument Summary
The Scanning High-resolution Interferometer Sounder (S-HIS) is a scanning
interferometer which measures emitted thermal radiation at high spectral
resolution between 3.3 and 18 microns (specifications). The measured
emitted radiance is used to obtain temperature and water vapor profiles
of the Earth's atmosphere. S-HIS produces sounding data with 2 kilometer
resolution (at nadir) across a 40 kilometer ground swath from a nominal
altitude of 20 kilometers onboard a NASA ER-2/WB-57 aircraft or 20 kilometer
ground swath from a nominal altitude of 10 kilometers aboard the NASA DC-8
aircraft.
Data
Below are links to the online archive of S-HIS data and other information
pertinent to this field experiment.
- AVE JUNE 2005
- AVE JUNE 2005 Instruments
- AVE JUNE 2005 S-HIS Lab Area Map (Building 993)
- AURA validation data center
- Main Aqua site
- AIRS Main Page
Related Links (Documents)
S-HIS data are stored in network common data format (netCDF). Programs for reading S-HIS data in this format are available in Fortran, IDL, Matlab source code. To visualize S-HIS data, a Matlab browser is available for basic image viewing.