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Description

The First ISCCP Regional Experiment (FIRE) Cirrus 1 TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder (TOVS) Data includes temperature soundings from the TOVS sensor on NOAA-9 and -10 satellites. Soundings were made for each pixel over the cirrus Intensive Field Observations (IFO) network. Sounding information contains both standard levels and layer means. Cloud top heights and cloud amount/emissivity also are included. Temperature soundings were made at the overpass times of the NOAA-9 and NOAA-10 satellites when the FIRE network (Wisconsin) was in view of the satellite. There is a maximum of 4 observation times per day.

Product Summary

Platforms
NOAA-10 ,
NOAA-9
Instruments
TOVS
Geographic Region
MID-LATITUDE ,
NORTH AMERICA ,
WISCONSIN ,
STRATOSPHERE ,
TROPOSPHERE
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
CARTESIAN
Temporal Extent
1986-10-14 to 1986-11-02
Data Partner
Atmospheric Science Data Center, Science Directorate, Langley Research Center, NASA (NASA/LARC/SD/ASDC)
Concept ID
C1000001105-LARC_ASDC
Data State
COMPLETE
Number of Files/Granules
18
Processing Level
2
Published
Updated
Science Keywords
Atmospheric Ozone ,
Barometric Altitude ,
Cloud Height ,
Cloud Top Pressure ,
Skin Temperature ,
Total Precipitable Water ,
Cloud Frequency ,
Cloud Top Temperature ,
Infrared Imagery ,
Surface Pressure ,
Dew Point Temperature ,
VISIBLE IMAGERY ,
Atmospheric Pressure Measurements ,
Surface Temperature ,
Air Temperature

Citation

Citation is critically important for dataset documentation and discovery. This dataset is openly shared, without restriction, in accordance with the EOSDIS Data Use and Citation Guidance.

Copy Citation

FIRE Science Team. (1999). First ISCCP Regional Experiment (FIRE) Cirrus 1 TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder Data in Native format [Data set]. NASA Langley Atmospheric Science Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/ASDC_DAAC/FIRE/0086 Date Accessed: 2025-12-19

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