S-HIS Atlantic THORPEX Experiment Quicklook Page Part of the  CIMSSWeb

Introduction
THORPEX objectives are, 1) to evaluate the potential of various in situ and remote sensing observation systems to provide the observations needed to accelerate improvements in operational weather predictions, 2) to evaluate model sensitivity studies and test the impact of targeted observations by participant systems on the performance of those operational models, and 3) to begin to acquire the observational data needed to develop intelligent observing systems and the models and data assimilation systems that will interact dynamically with those observing systems. 
 

SUMMARY OF DATA COLLECTION DURING Atlantic-TOST
 University of Wisconsin - Madison
 Scanning High-resolution Interferometer Sounder (SHIS);
 PI: Henry E. Revercomb (hankr@ssec.wisc.edu)

Flight Date	Sortie #	Mission Summary	Data Start (UTC)	Data End (UTC)	Flight Length (Minutes)
11/03/2003	N/A	Lab Test	18.9	19.3	24
11/06/2003	04-6013	First Checkout flight over California	1925	2115	115
11/13/2003	04-6014	Second Checkout Flight over California	1715	1855	100
11/14/2003	04-6015	Pilot Proficiency Flight	1715	1915	120
11/17/2003	04-6016	Ferry from Dryden to Bangor	1500	2100	360
11/19/2003	04-6017	AQUA Overpass, multi-layer clouds	1555	2111	316
11/28/2003	04-6018	Racetrack pattern over Montreal/Mirabel	1500	2005	305
12/02/2003	04-6019	Coordination with Citation south from St. John's Island	1323	1944	381
12/03/2003	04-6020	AQUA Underflight mission. Variable cloud conditions.	1335	1923	348
12/04/2003	04-6021	AIRS-II "icing" mission over Mirabel	1432	1828	236
12/05/2003	04-6022	Flight supported all three objective of ATREC, AQUA satellite validation, and AIRS-II	1521	2149	388
12/08/2003	04-6023	AQUA underflight. Night mission.	2205	0319	219
12/10/2003	04-6024	ATReC support flight to eastern areas (~40W)	1558	2221	379
12/11/2003	04-6025	AIRS-II mission to Mirabel	1628	1940	192
12/14/2003	04-6026	Aqua underflight centered on eastern tip of Cape Cod	1600	2200	360
12/17/2003	04-6027	Ferry from Bangor, Me to DFRC, CA	1600	2205	365
			Total Flight Hours:		70.13

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.

• S-HIS Data Distribution Index
• AIRS/Aircraft Validation Cases
• Preliminary SHIS/NAST-I Comparison Images

• NASA Langley THORPEX Main Page
• GOES Rapid Scan WINDs EXperiment (GWINDEX)
• NASA Cloud Physics LIDAR
• Main TERRA site
• Main Aqua site
• MAS TX2002 Page
• AIRS Main Page
• NASA ER-2 Page
• HIS
• NASTI

• Software
• Net CDF