S-HIS ADRIEX Experiment Quicklook Page


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Introduction

ADRIEX objectives are

  • Prepare for METOP validation activities
  • Obtain S-HIS/NAST-I Spectral Radiance comparisons
  • Obtain AQUA and AURA validation datasets
  • Thermaldynamic, aerosol and cloud remote sensing
  • Proteus overflights of Italian ground troop sites
SUMMARY OF DATA COLLECTION DURING ADRIEX
 University of Wisconsin - Madison
 Scanning High-resolution Interferometer Sounder (SHIS);
 PI: Henry E. Revercomb (hankr@ssec.wisc.edu)

Flight Date Sortie # Mission Summary Start Time (UTC) End Time (UTC) Flight Length (Hours)
8/30/2004 271 Transit: Mojave, CA to Dayton, OH 16:55 22:55 6.00
9/1/2004 272 Transit: Dayton, OH to Bangor, ME 17:36 20:22 2.80
9/2/2004 273 Transit: Bangor, ME to Iceland 13:03 19:43 6.66
9/3/2004 274 Transit: Iceland to Milan, Italy 10:29 16:53 6.40
9/3/2004 275 Transit: Milan, Italy to Napoli, Italy      
9/6/2004 276 First Science Flight 16:32 21:35 5.05
9/7/2004 277 21:19 04:04 6.75
9/8/2004 278   15:50 21:43 5.88
9/9/2004 279   21:37 04:04 6.45
Total Flight Hours: 46.00

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 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.

Related Links Software
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.