S-HIS EAQUATE Experiment Quicklook Page


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Introduction

EAQUATE 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
SUMMARY OF DATA COLLECTION DURING EAQUATE
 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)
9/11/2004 280 Transit: Naples, Italy to Cranfield, UK 06:01 10:28 4.45
9/14/2004 281 First Science Flight 10:15 14:49 4.57
9/18/2004 282 Last science flight 10:48 15:23 4.5
9/19/2004 283 Transit flight: UK to Iceland      
9/20/2004 284 Transit flight: Iceland to Bangor      
9/21/2004 285 Transit flight: Bangor to Mohave      
Total Flight Hours:

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.