Measurement : Longwave spectral brightness temperature

A descriptive measure of radiation in terms of the temperature of a hypothetical black body emitting an identical amount of radiation at the same spectrally resolved 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
    • AERI : Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer
  • Field Campaign Instruments
    • AERI : Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer
    • QMEAERILBL : Comparison of Statistics or Clouds data from AERI vs. LBLRTM Model runs
    • IRCC : Infrared Cloud Camera
    • MIRAI : JAMSTEC Research Vessel Mirai
    • RONBROWN : NOAA Research Vessel Ron Brown

Value-Added Products

  • QMEAERILBL : Comparison of Statistics or Clouds data from AERI vs. LBLRTM Model runs (Process)

Datastreams

  • AERI : Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer Datastreams
    • AERISUMMARY : Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer (AERI): summary data
    • AERI01SUMMARY : Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer (AERI) 01: summary data
    • AERIENGINEER : Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer (AERI): engineering data