S-HIS Tahoe 2006 Experiment Quicklook Page


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SUMMARY OF DATA COLLECTION DURING Tahoe 2006
 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)
9/26/2006 066030 Check Flight 19:47 21:50 2.1
9/27/2006 066031 AVIRIS Flight 17:45 20:05 2.3
9/29/2006 066032 Science Flight07:00 13:10 6.2
10/02/2006 076001 AVIRIS Flight 14:05 23:05 9.0
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.