S-HIS MPACE Alaska Experiment (ARMUAV) Quicklook Page


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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)
9/26/2004 287 First check flight 18:35 21:07 3.62
9/26/2004 288 check flight     3
9/30/2004 289 check flight     3.5
10/02/2004 291 transit flight (Seattle to Fairbanks)     4.5
10/08/2004 292 Barrow/Oliktok overpass 18:00 24:00 6
10/09/2004 293 Barrow/Oliktok overpass 19:00 00:40 5.67
10/10/2004 294 A-Train Underflight Southeast of Fairbanks 21:15 23:15 2
10/12/2004 295 Barrow/Oliktok overpass 20:30 01:30 5
10/15/2004 296 A-Train Underflight West of Fairbanks 21:30 24:00 2.5
10/17/2004 297 Barrow overpass and Cloud Sampling 19:30 01:30 6
10/18/2004 298 Oliktok overpass and Cloud Sampling 19:15 00:30 5.25
Total Flight Hours: 47

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.