Measurement : Longwave broadband brightness temperature

A descriptive measure of radiation in terms of the temperature of a hypothetical black body emitting an identical amount of radiation in the same broad band of wavelengths.

Categories
Radiometric

Instruments

The above measurement is considered scientifically relevant for the following instruments. Refer to the datastream (netcdf) file headers of each instrument for a list of all available measurements, including those recorded for diagnostic or quality assurance purposes.

  • ARM Instruments
    • IRT : Infrared Thermometer
  • Field Campaign Instruments
    • RAD-AIR : Airborne Radiometers
    • IRSI : Infrared Sky Imager
    • VISST : Minnis Cloud Products Using Visst Algorithm
    • PARSL : PNNL's Atmospheric Remote Sensing Laboratory
    • QCSFCRAD : Quality Controlled Surface Radiation Data (Long-Shi Experimental)
    • RADFLUXANAL : Radiative Flux Analysis
    • SCAN-IRT : Scanning IRT

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Datastreams

  • IRT : Infrared Thermometer Datastreams
    • IRT : Infrared Thermometer: Sky brightness temperature
    • IRT200MS : Infrared Thermometer: Sky brightness temperature, 5-Hz instantaneous
    • IRT2S : Infrared Thermometer: Sky brightness temperature, instantaneous 2-second