Datastream : AERICH1
Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer (AERI): channel 1 data
Active Dates
1994.01.10 - 2012.10.03
Measurement Categories
Radiometric
Originating Instrument
Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer (AERI)
Measurements
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Measurement | Units | Variable |
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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 |
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)
Contact(s)
Jonathan Gero
608-265-2335
jonathan.gero@ssec.wisc.edu
Denny Hackel
associate
(608) 770-1485
dennyh@ssec.wisc.edu
Ralph Dedecker
engineering
(608) 263-6779
ralphd@ssec.wisc.edu
Robert Knuteson
science
(608) 263-7974
robert.knuteson@ssec.wisc.edu
Raymond Garcia
software
(608) 262-8439
ray.garcia@ssec.wisc.edu