Datastream : AERI01CH2

Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer (AERI) 01: ch. 2 data

Active Dates
1995.07.22 - 2012.10.12

Measurement Categories
Radiometric

Originating Instrument
Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer (AERI)

Measurements

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Measurement	Units	Variable
Ambient blackbody temperature - apex	K	ABBapexTemp ( time )
Ambient blackbody temperature	K	ABBbottomTemp ( time )
Ambient blackbody temperature - rim top	K	ABBtopTemp ( time )
Observation Altitude	Meters	Altitude ( time )
Blackbody controller Unit 1 power supply temperature	K	BBcontroller1temp ( time )
Blackbody controller Unit 2 power supply temperature	K	BBcontroller2temp ( time )
Temperature of the AERI blackbody support structure	K	BBsupportStructureTemp ( time )
Hot blackbody temperature - apex	K	HBBapexTemp ( time )
Hot blackbody temperature - rim bottom	K	HBBbottomTemp ( time )
Hot blackbody temperature - rim top	K	HBBtopTemp ( time )
Julian Day including day and fraction of day	Days	JulianDay ( time )
Observation latitude	Degrees	Latitude ( time )
Observation longitude	Degrees	Longitude ( time )
Signal conditioning electronics inside air temperature	K	SCEtemp ( time )
Time at center of AERI sky observation period	UTC Hours	Time_UTC_hours ( time )
Ambient air temperature near blackbodies	K	airNearBBsTemp ( time )
Altitude above mean sea level	m	alt
Observation atmospheric pressure in AERI electronics	mb	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
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 ingest computer temperature measured at back panel of computer	K	computerTemp ( time )
Stirling cooler compressor temperature measured at compressor heatsink	K	coolerCompressorTemp ( time )
Stirling cycle cooler current	amperes	coolerCurrent ( time )
Stirling cycle cooler expander temperature	K	coolerExpanderTemp ( time )
Stirling cooler power supply temperature measured at power supply frame	K	coolerPowerSupplyTemp ( time )
Detector temperature sensed via diode near detector	K	detectorTemp ( time )
Resistive temperature of 12 Kohm fixed resistor located in SCE-P3 shell	K	fixed12KohmResistor ( time )
Resistive temperature of 97 Kohm fixed resistor located in SCE-P4 shell	K	fixed97KohmResistor ( time )
Resistive temperature of 2500 Ohm fixed resistor - banana plug mounted	K	fixed2500ohmResistor ( time )
AERI instrument hatch indicator (open, closed, neither)		hatchIndicator ( time )
AERI interferometer temperature at second port	K	interferometerSecondPortTemp ( time )
North latitude	degree_N	lat
East longitude	degree_E	lon
Longwave spectral radiance Downwelling radiance interpolated to standard wavenumber scale	mw/(m2 sr cm-1)	mean_rad ( time, wnum )
Scene mirror motor case temperature	K	mirrorMotorTemp ( time )
Logical flag indicating that a data record is missing (true/false)		missingDataFlag ( time )
Scene mirror motor driver heat sink temperature	K	motorDriverTemp ( time )
Ambient air temperature at hatch opening	K	outsideAirTemp ( time )
Electronics rack ambient temperature measured at inside top of rack	K	rackAmbientTemp ( time )
Time at end of interferometer data collection	HHMMSS	rawTimeHHMMSS ( time )
Scene mirror position encoder value		sceneMirPosEncoder ( time )
Spare temperature sensor (location TBD)	K	spareTemp ( time )
Difference between the sky view's radiance variance and the hot black body view's variance	(mw/(m2 sr cm-1))^2	standard_dev_mean_rad ( time, wnum2 )
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 )