(1) The Scanning-HIS data are preliminary and will be replaced
with final calibrated datasets. Please check the data archive for the most
recent calibrated S-HIS data.
(2) The satellite product images are courtesy of the Uni. of Wisconsin-Madison
(UW-Madison) Space Science and Engineering Center (UW-SSEC) Cooperative
Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS)in collaboration with
NASA and NOAA.
WB-57 Information
S-HIS Spectral Plots and Data Sample
AURA Products
AQUA Products
TERRA MODIS Cloud Products
WB-57 Pilot Flight Summary Report
The following plots
represent the UW-SSEC Scanning-HIS data collected onboard the NASA WB-57
aircraft as part of the Aura Validation Experiment (AVE).
Complete Flight of Nadir B.T. TIME SERIES:
Matlab fig file , PNG file )
Matlab m-file script used to create Science
Plots
S-HIS Mean and Std of Unapodized Radiance ( Nadir Matlab mat-file , Zenith Matlab mat-file )
Latitude/Longitude/Altitude ( [The red dots on the lat/lon/alt plot indicate
the spectra used to create the time averaged spectral plots shown.]
Matlab fig file ,
Nadir Time Series of Observed Brightness Temperatures for selected channels ( Matlab fig file , PNG file )
Nadir Radiance Mean: KB Apodized ( Matlab fig
file , PNG file )
Nadir Radiance Std. Deviation: KB Apodized ( [The standard deviation of the
scene is the 1-sigma STD (divide by sqrt(NumberOfSamples) to get the
uncertainty in the mean).]
Matlab fig file , PNG file )
Nadir Brightness Temperature Mean: KB Apodized ( Matlab fig file , PNG file )
Nadir Brightness Temperature Std Deviation: KB Apodized ( Matlab fig file , PNG file )
Nadir Brightness Temperature: LW Window ( Matlab
fig file , PNG file )
Zenith Radiance Mean: KB Apodized ( Matlab
fig file , PNG file )
Zenith Radiance Std. Deviation: KB Apodized ( Matlab fig file , PNG file )
Zenith Radiance: LW Band( Matlab fig
file , PNG file )
Zenith Radiance: MW Band Matlab fig
file , PNG file )
Zenith Radiance: SW Band Matlab fig
file , PNG file )