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Projects Supported |
Each project listed below has a Table of Available Data Sets that contains ordering mechanisms and supporting documentation. Questions, comments or requests for additional information should be sent to User Services.
| Acronym (select for details) |
Definition/Description | Spatial Coverage | Temporal Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| 48" LIDAR (ARB) | Aerosol Research Branch: ground-based 48-inch LIDAR system providing high resolution vertical measurements. |
37.1N Lat., -76.3W Lon. NASA Langley Research Center |
06/14/1982 - 12/04/2001 |
| ACRIM II | Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor II: monitors the total variability of solar irradiance with active cavity radiometer sensors. Related Project: ACRIM III |
Looks at Sun | 10/04/1991 - 11/01/2001 |
| ACRIM III | Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor III: monitors the total variability of solar irradiance with active cavity radiometer sensors. Related Project: ACRIM II |
Looks at Sun | 04/05/2000 - 09/19/2003 |
| AirMISR | Airborne Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer: airborne instrument for obtaining multi-angle imagery similar to that of the satellite-borne MISR instrument. Related Project: MISR |
Relevant to each field experiment | Relevant to each field experiment |
| ARESE | ARM Enhanced Shortwave Experiment: DoE - NASA field experiment designed to measure absorption of solar radiation in the cloudy atmosphere. |
Southern Great Plains | 09/25/1995 - 10/23/1995 |
| ATOST | Atlantic - THORpex Observing System Test: part of an international research program to accelerate improvements in the accuracy of weather forcasts. Related Project: THORpex |
Bangor, Maine | 11/06/2003 - 12/17/2003 |
| Biomass Burning | Biomass Burning: geographical and temporal distribution of total amount of biomass burned. |
Central & South America, Africa, Tropical Asia | 01/01/1980 - 12/31/1980 |
| CALIPSO | Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder
Satellite Observations: instrument designed to study the impact of clouds and aerosols on the Earth's radiation budget and climate. |
Global | 06/13/2006 - Present |
| CAMEX-4 | Convection And Moisture EXperiment: study of tropical cyclone development, tracking, intensification, and landfalling impacts. |
Carribean, Gulf of Mexico, East Coast United States | 08/13/2001 - 09/26/2001 |
| CERES | Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System: provides radiometric measurements of the Earth's atmosphere from three broadband channels. Related Projects: ERBE, SRB |
Global | 12/27/1997 - Present |
| CLAMS | Chesapeake Lighthouse and Aircraft Measurements for
Satellites: experiment designed to validate and improve EOS Terra satellite data products. Terra Related Projects: CERES, MISR, MOPITT |
Middle Atlantic Eastern Seaboard | 06/29/2001 - 08/02/2001 |
| ERBE | Earth Radiation Budget Experiment: multiple instrument measurements of global albedo, fluxes and solar incidence. Related Project: CERES |
Global | 11/05/1984 - 08/31/2005 |
| FIRE | First ISCCP Regional Experiment: series of field missions which measured cloud parameters including microphysics. Related Project: ISCCP |
Relevant to each mission | Relevant to each mission |
| FLASHFlux | Fast Longwave And SHortwave Radiative Fluxes: near real-time surface and Top of Atmosphere (TOA) radiative fluxes. Related Project: CERES |
Global | 03/01/2006 - present |
| GEWEX-RFA | Global Energy and Water Cycle EXperiment -
Radiative Flux Assessment: an international intercomparison effort to assess accuracy and uncertainty of top-of-atmosphere and surface radiative fluxes. |
Global | Varies - relevant to each data submission |
| GTE | Global Tropospheric Experiment: series of airborne field experiments which addressed tropospheric chemistry issues. |
Global | Relevant to each mission |
| INTEX-A | INtercontinental Chemical Transport EXperiment - North
America Phase A: integrated atmospheric experiment to understand the transport and transformation of gases and aerosols. |
North America | Relevant to each mission |
| ISCCP | International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project: distribution and variation of cloud radiative properties at multiple scales. Related Projects: FIRE, SRB |
Global | 07/01/1983 -06/30/2007 |
| LASE | Lidar Atmospheric Sensing Experiment: series of airborne autonomous DIAL system measurements of water vapor, aerosol, and cloud profiles. |
Relevant to each experiment | Relevant to each experiment |
| LITE | Lidar In-space Technology Experiment: Space Shuttle mission that studied clouds and aerosols. |
60N to 60S Lat. to 180E to 180W Lon. |
09/10/1994 - 09/19/1994 |
| MAPS | Measurement of Air Pollution from Satellites: pollution data collected during Space Shuttle flights. |
70N to 70S Lat. | Relevant to each experiment |
| MAS | MODIS Airborne Simulator: airborne scanning spectrometer acquiring high spatial resolution imagery of cloud and surface features. |
Relevant to each experiment | Relevant to each experiment |
| MISR | Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer: uses 9 cameras and 4 spectral bands to acquire high resolution imagery, stereoscopic cloud and aerosol information, and surface reflectances. Related Project: AirMISR |
Global | 03/01/2000 - Present |
| MOPITT | Measurements Of Pollution In The Troposphere: generates atmospheric profiles of CO using thermal radiation. |
Global | 03/03/2000 - Present |
| MY NASA DATA | Mentoring and inquirY using NASA Data on
Atmospheric and earth science for Teachers and
Amateurs: easy online access to satellite data, images, lesson plans, earth science glossary and more for K-12 education and citizen scientists. |
Varies | Varies |
| NARSTO | North American Research Strategy for Tropospheric
Ozone: field experiments for assessing tropospheric pollution. |
North America | Relevant to each experiment |
| NIMBUS-7 | Nimbus-7 Earth Radiation Budget: measurements of solar irradiance, determining the Earth radiation budget. |
Global | 11/16/1978 - 12/13/1993 |
| NVAP | NASA Water Vapor Project: total and layered global water vapor data. Related Projects: SSM/I, SMMR |
Global | 11/01/1988 -12/31/2001 |
| POAM II | Polar Ozone and Aerosol Measurement II: measures the vertical distribution of atmospheric ozone, nitrogen dioxide, and aerosol extinction. Related Project: POAM III |
Lat: -88.11 to -62.55 and 54.68 to 71.01 |
10/15/1993 - 11/13/1996 |
| POAM III | Polar Ozone and Aerosol Measurement III: measures the vertical distribution of atmospheric ozone, nitrogen dioxide, aerosol extinction, and water vapor. Related Project: POAM II |
Lat: -88.11 to -62.55 and 54.68 to 71.01 |
04/22/1998 - present |
| SAGE I | Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment I: spatial distribution of stratospheric aerosols, ozone and nitrogen dioxide on a global scale. Related Projects: SAM II, SAGE II, SAGE III |
80N-80S, 180E-180W | 02/18/1979 -11/18/1981 |
| SAGE II | Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment II: spatial distributions of stratospheric aerosols, ozone, nitrogen dioxide, water vapor and cloud occurrence. Related Projects: SAM II, SAGE I, SAGE III |
Global | 10/24/1984 - 08/31/2005 |
| SAGE III | Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment III: profile measurements of aerosol extinction, ozone, water vapor, nitrogen dioxide, nitrogen trioxide, chlorine dioxide, clouds, temperature and pressure. Related Projects: SAM II, SAGE I, SAGE II |
Global | 02/27/2002 - 12/31/2005 |
| SAM II | Stratospheric Aerosol Measurement II: vertical distribution of stratospheric aerosols in the polar regions. Related Projects: SAGE I, SAGE II, SAGE III |
Polar Regions | 10/29/1978 - 12/18/1993 |
| SCAR-A | Smoke/Sulfates, Clouds and Radiation -
America: field experiment that measured physical and chemical components of the atmosphere. Related Project: SCAR-B |
Eastern United States | 07/12/1993 - 07/29/1993 |
| SCAR-B | Smoke/Sulfates, Clouds and Radiation -
Brazil: field experiment that measured physical and chemical components of the atmosphere. Related Projects: SCAR-A |
Brazil | 06/01/1995 - 10/31/1995 |
| SMMR | Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer: atmospheric liquid water and integrated atmospheric water vapor. Related Projects: SMM/I, NVAP |
Relevant to data set | Relevant to data set |
| SRB | Surface Radiation Budget: shortwave and longwave radiation, PAR and radiation forcing values computed from several models. Related Projects: SSE, CERES, ISCCP, ERBE, MISR |
Global | 07/01/1983 -10/31/1995 |
| SSE | Surface meteorology and Solar Energy: surface radiation parameters formulated for assessing and designing renewable energy systems. Related Project: SRB |
Global | 10 year averages over 07/01/1983 - 06/30/1993 |
| SSM/I | Special Sensor Microwave/Image: vertically integrated water vapor and cloud liquid water. Related Projects: SMMR, NVAP |
Global | 07/01/1987 - 12/31/1991 |
| SUCCESS | SUbsonic aircraft: Contrail & Clouds Effects
Special Study: field experiment to investigate the effects of contrails on clouds and atmospheric chemistry. |
36.6N Lat. -97.5E Lon. |
04/12/1996 - 05/02/1996 |
| TARFOX | Tropospheric Aerosol Radiative Forcing
Observational EXperiment: field experiment designed to reduce uncertainties in the effects of aerosols on climate. |
Western Atlantic Ocean | 07/10/1996 - 07/31/1996 |
| TES | Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer: profiles of ozone, water vapor, CO, methane and other chemical species. |
Global | Launched July 15, 2004 |
| THORpex | THe Observing-system Research and predictability
experiment: accelerate improvements in short range weather predictions and warnings. Related Project: ATOST |
Hawaii, Pacific Ocean | 01/31/2003 - 04/10/2003 |
