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    First ISCCP Regional Experiment (FIRE) Atlantic Stratocumulus Transition Experiment (ASTEX) Centre Meteorologie Spatiale Weekly Sea SurfaceTemperature Data

    Metadata Updated: February 23, 2025

    The First ISCCP Regional Experiments have been designed to improve data products and cloud/radiation parameterizations used in general circulation models (GCMs). Specifically, the goals of FIRE are (1) to improve basic understanding of the interaction of physical processes in determining life cycles of cirrus and marine stratocumulus systems and the radiative properties of these clouds during their life cycles and (2) to investigate the interrelationships between the ISCCP data, GCM parameterizations, and higher space and time resolution cloud data.To-date, four intensive field-observation periods were planned and executed: a cirrus IFO (October 13 - November 2, 1986); a marine stratocumulus IFO off the southwestern coast of California (June 29 - July 20, 1987); a second cirrus IFO in southeastern Kansas (November 13 - December 7, 1991); and a second marine stratocumulus IFO in the eastern North Atlantic Ocean (June 1 - June 28, 1992). Each mission combined coordinated satellite, airborne, and surface observations with modeling studies to investigate the cloud properties and physical processes of the cloud systems.These files are weekly temperature fields from observations made by the NOAA 11 and 12 polar orbiting satellites. The file naming convention is: thseXXYYZZ.fiswhere XX = week number in 1992 YY = jo (jour) day nu (nuit) night ma (matin) morning ZZ = 11 NOAA-11 12 NOAA-12These files are: I1 pixels, 752 pixels/row, 652 rows. Each pixel has a spatial resolution of 0.02 degrees.The units are: temperature [degree C] (offset by 10 deg.)

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    Metadata Created Date February 23, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date February 23, 2025

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    Harvested from nasa test json

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    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date February 23, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date February 23, 2025
    Publisher NASA/LARC/SD/ASDC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C1000000983-LARC_ASDC
    Data First Published 1999-11-02
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2025-02-19
    Category FIRE, geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
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    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.5067/ASDC_DAAC/FIRE/0018
    Metadata Type geospatial
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    Program Code 026:001
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    Source Hash e815ef67163b2e132906e608842d6db2ab460f35252ab8d3287013e4c9608c3b
    Source Schema Version 1.1
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    Temporal 1992-06-08T00:00:00Z/1992-07-12T23:59:59.999Z

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