S-HIS Calibration 2006 Quicklook Page


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SUMMARY OF DATA COLLECTION DURING Calibration Validation Activities for 2006
 University of Wisconsin - Madison
 Scanning High-resolution Interferometer Sounder (SHIS);
 PI: Henry E. Revercomb

Date Data Run Summary Start Time (UTC) End Time (UTC) rsh file
060803 IBB @ Ambient Pre-Tahoe 2006 Rad Cal Verification
Flight Cables, 4 body Test, standard kernel		 16:44:00 UTC 17:14:00 UTC dterevw.rsh
060803 IBB @ 318K Pre-Tahoe 2006 Rad Cal Verification
Flight Cables, 4 body Test, standard kernel		 18:11:41 UTC 18:41:41 UTC dtermqf.rsh
060803 IBB @ 333K Pre-Tahoe 2006 Rad Cal Verification
Flight Cables, 4 body Test, standard kernel		 19:10:23 UTC 19:40:23 UTC dterrvr.rsh
060804 IBB @ Ambient Extension Cables Test
Extension Cables, 4 body Test, standard kernel		 16:56:20 UTC 17:26:20 UTC dtewdtk.rsh
060804 IBB @ 318K Extension Cables Test
Extension Cables, 4 body Test, standard kernel		 18:07:18 UTC 18:37:18 UTC dtewkbe.rsh
060804 IBB @ 333K Extension Cables Test
Extension Cables, 4 body Test, standard kernel		 19:07:20 UTC 19:37:20 UTC dtewpjs.rsh
060814 AERI / S-HIS Intercompare, Clear Sky
Extension Cables with Flight Scene Mirror Cable, 4 body Test, standard kernel
061128 IBB @ Ambient Post-Tahoe 2006 Rad Cal Verification
Flight Cables, 4 body Test, standard kernel		 17:39:02 UTC 18:09:02 UTC duaunow.rsh
061128 IBB @ 318K Post-Tahoe 2006 Rad Cal Verification
Flight Cables, 4 body Test, standard kernel		 18:41:34 UTC 19:11:34 UTC duautde.rsh
061128 IBB @ 333K Post-Tahoe 2006 Rad Cal Verification
Flight Cables, 4 body Test, standard kernel		 19:43:23 UTC 20:13:23 UTC duauypv.rsh

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 experiment.

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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.