Datastream : AERICH2

Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer (AERI): channel 2 data

Active Dates
1994.01.10 - 2012.09.21

Measurement Categories
Radiometric

Originating Instrument
Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer (AERI)

Measurements

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Measurement	Units	Variable
AERI instrument unit serial number	unitless	AERIunitNumber ( time )
Observation Altitude	m	Altitude ( time )
Temperature of the AERI blackbody support structure	K	BBsupportStructureTemp ( time )
Julian Day including day and fraction of day	days	JulianDay ( time )
Observation latitude	deg	Latitude ( time )
Observation longitude	deg	Longitude ( time )
Time at center of AERI sky observation period		Time_UTC_hours ( time )
altitude	meters above Mean Sea Level	alt
Observation atmospheric pressure in AERI electronics	hPa	atmosphericPressure ( time )
Relative humidity measured near Blackbodies. Use with Air Temperature Near BBs only.	% RH	atmosphericRelativeHumidity ( time )
Base time in Epoch	seconds since 1970-1-1 0:00:00 0:00	base_time
Calibrated Scene Type Identification	unitless	calibratedSceneID ( time )
Ambient temperature used in calibration	K	calibrationAmbientTemp ( time )
Cold blackbody temperature used in calibration	K	calibrationCBBtemp ( time )
Hot blackbody temperature used in calibration	K	calibrationHBBtemp ( time )
AERI instrument data channel number	unitless	channelNumber ( time )
Observation date	YYMMDD	dateYYMMDD ( time )
Hatch Open Flag	Boolean with negative error conditions: 1:Open 0:Closed -1:Fault -2:Outside Valid Range -3:Neither Open Nor Closed	hatchOpen ( time )
Character string containing instrument name	unitless	instrumentUnitNumber ( time )
north latitude	degrees	lat
east longitude	degrees	lon
Longwave spectral radiance Downwelling radiance interpolated to standard wavenumber scale	mW/(m^2 sr cm^-1)	mean_rad ( time, wnum )
Logical flag indicating that a data record is missing (true/false)	unitless	missingDataFlag ( time )
Ambient air temperature at hatch opening	K	outsideAirTemp ( time )
Results of quality checks on sample time	unitless	qc_time ( time )
Scene Mirror Position Encoder Maximum Drift	steps	sceneMirPosEncoderMaxDrift ( time )
Scene mirror view angle in non-negative degrees, measured clockwise looking into interferometer window	deg	sceneMirrorAngle ( time )
Duration of scene view	s	sceneViewDuration ( time )
Difference between the sky view's radiance variance and the hot black body view's variance	(mW/(m^2 sr cm^-1))^2	standard_dev_mean_rad ( time, wnum2 )
Version number of Operational Software	unitless	systemReleaseNumber ( time )
Time offset from midnight		time ( time )
Time at center of AERI sky observation period	HHMMSS	timeHHMMSS ( time )
Time offset from base_time		time_offset ( time )
Wave number in reciprocal centimeters	cm^-1	wnum ( wnum )
Wave number in reciprocal centimeters	cm^-1	wnum2 ( wnum2 )

Locations

North Slope Alaska (NSA)
- Central Facility, Barrow AK (C1)
Southern Great Plains (SGP)
- Hillsboro, KS (Boundary) (B1)
- Vici, OK (Boundary) (B4)
- Morris, OK (Boundary) (B5)
- Purcell, OK (B6)
- Central Facility, Lamont, OK (C1)
Tropical Western Pacific (TWP)
- Central Facility, Manus I., PNG (C1)
- Central Facility, Nauru Island (C2)
- Central Facility, Darwin, Australia (C3)
ARM Mobile Facility (FKB)
- Black Forest, Germany (M1)
ARM Mobile Facility (GRW)
- Graciosa Island, Azores, Portugal (M1)
ARM Mobile Facility (HFE)
- Shouxian, Anhui, China (M1)
ARM Mobile Facility (NIM)
- Niamey, Niger (M1)
ARM Mobile Facility (PGH)
- ARIES Observatory, Nainital, Uttarkhand, India (M1)
ARM Mobile Facility (PVC)
- Highland Center, Cape Cod MA; AMF 1 (M1)
ARM Mobile Facility (PYE)
- Point Reyes, CA (M1)
SHEBA (Surface HEat Budget of the Arctic) (SHB)
- Ice Station SHEBA (C1)