S-HIS NIST TXR Test Quicklooks Page (2006/2007)


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SUMMARY OF DATA COLLECTION During NIST TXR Test and Pre-test Dry-runs
 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
061221 Dry Run #1, Vibration Test S-HIS in Tenney Chamber, Tenney Chamber open and off 15:44:00 16:14:00 dufdhnt.rsh
061221 Dry Run #2, Vibration Test S-HIS in Tenney Chamber, Tenney Chamber closed and on, setpoint 20C 16:18:00 16:56:00 dufdkfa.rsh
061221 Dry Run #3, Cold Test S-HIS in Tenney Chamber, Tenney Chamber cooling to -60C setpoint 17:13:18 23:40:15 dufdmyg, dufdppn, dufefhj, dufehyq, dufekpx, dufenhe, dufepyl, dufespv, dufevhf
061222 Dry Run #4, Cold Test S-HIS in Tenney Chamber, bench heater tests 17:47:05 23:40:15 dufinth, dufiqko, dufitbw, dufivtf, dufiykp, dufjbbw, dufjdtd
061229 Dry Run #5, Cold Test S-HIS in Tenney Chamber, metrology board heater tests 21:19:29 03:19:44 dugrrgz, dugrtyg, dugrwpn, dugrzgu, dugsbyb, dugsepi, dugshgp, dugsjxw, dugsmpg, dugspgn, dugsrxu, dugsupb, dugsxgi

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.