SCAR_A_ER2_MAS_1

Sulfates, Clouds and Radiation America NASA ER-2 Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MODIS) Airborne Simulator (MAS) Data

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  • Abstract
    SCAR_A_ER2_MAS data are Sulfates, Clouds and Radiation America (SCARA) NASA ER2 Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MODIS) Airborne Simulator (MAS) Data in Hierarchical Data Format (HDF).Smoke/Sulfates, Clouds and Radiation - America (SCAR-A) data include physical and chemical components of the Earth's surface, the atmosphere and the radiation field collected in the eastern part of the United States with an emphasis in air pollution.The primary objective of the SCAR-A experiment was to help scientists characterize the the relationship between sulfate particles and clouds' reflective properties. Sulfate aerosols are believed to provide condensation nuclei, resulting in smaller, more numerous droplets within a cloud. SCAR-A was the first in a series of experiments. It was was followed by the SCAR-C experiment conducted over California in 1994. A third experiment, SCAR-B was conducted in Brazil during August and September 1995. The MODIS Airbourne Simulator (MAS) is a modified Daedalus Wildfire scanning spectrometer which flies on a NASA ER-2 and provides spectral information similar to that provided by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), launched on Terra (EOS AM-1) in 1999 and Aqua (EOS PM-1) in 2002. The MAS spectrometer acquires high spatial resolution imagery in the wavelength range of 0.55 to 14.3 microns. A total of 50 spectral bands are available in this range, and the digitizer can be configured to collect data from any 12 of these bands. The digitizer was configured with four 10-bit channels and seven 8-bit channels. The MAS spectrometer was mated to a scanner subassembly which collected image data with an IFOV of 2.5 mrad, giving a ground resolution of 50 meters from 20000 meters altitude, and a cross track scan width of 85.92 degrees. The data granules were written using the self documenting file storage format provided through the netCDF interface routines included in the HDF libraries.
  • DOI

    10.5067/ASDC_DAAC/SCAR_A/0001

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    1B

    Quality
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    Complete

    Access Constraints

    4.0

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    Metadata Associations
    Association Type Entry ID Description Version
    Parent MAS 0
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    Science Keywords
    • EARTH SCIENCE
    • SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING
    • VISIBLE WAVELENGTHS
    • VISIBLE IMAGERY
    • EARTH SCIENCE
    • ATMOSPHERE
    • AEROSOLS
    • CLOUD CONDENSATION NUCLEI
    • EARTH SCIENCE
    • ATMOSPHERE
    • CLOUDS
    • CLOUD MICROPHYSICS
    • CLOUD DROPLET CONCENTRATION/SIZE
    • EARTH SCIENCE
    • SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING
    • VISIBLE WAVELENGTHS
    • VISIBLE FLUX
    • EARTH SCIENCE
    • ATMOSPHERE
    • AEROSOLS
    • SULFATE PARTICLES
    • EARTH SCIENCE
    • SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING
    • INFRARED WAVELENGTHS
    • INFRARED IMAGERY
    • EARTH SCIENCE
    • SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING
    • INFRARED WAVELENGTHS
    • INFRARED FLUX
    • EARTH SCIENCE
    • ATMOSPHERE
    • CLOUDS
    • CLOUD MICROPHYSICS
    • CLOUD CONDENSATION NUCLEI
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Ancillary Keywords
  • EOSDIS
  • IMAGERY
  • LBA
  • MODIS
  • NASA ER-2
  • SCAR
ISO Topic Categories
  • CLIMATOLOGY/METEOROLOGY/ATMOSPHERE
  • IMAGERY/BASE MAPS/EARTH COVER

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    NASA ER-2
    Instruments
    • MAS
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SCAR_A No campaigns listed. No dates provided.

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Location Keywords
    • CONTINENT
    • NORTH AMERICA
    • UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
    • CONTINENT
    • NORTH AMERICA
    • GEOGRAPHIC REGION
    • MID-LATITUDE
    • VERTICAL LOCATION
    • BOUNDARY LAYER
    • VERTICAL LOCATION
    • STRATOSPHERE
    • VERTICAL LOCATION
    • TROPOSPHERE

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  • NASA/LARC/SD/ASDC
    ARCHIVER
    Atmospheric Science Data Center, Science Directorate, Langley Research Center, NASA

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    ASDC USER SERVICES

    NASA Langley Atmospheric Science Data Center
    User and Data Services
    NASA Langley Research Center
    Hampton, VA 23681-2199

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    Investigator
    DR. MICHAEL KING

    NASA
    Goddard Space Flight Center
    Mailstop 610.0
    Greenbelt, MD 20771

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    • (301) 614-5636
    • (301) 614-5620
  • PAUL, DR.
    Investigator
    PAUL, DR. MENZEL

    NOAA/NESDIS
    Space Science and Engineering Center
    University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Madison, WI 53706

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    • (608) 264-5325
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    Technical Contact
    PAUL HUBANKS

    NASA
    Goddard Space Flight Center
    Mailstop 613.2
    Greenbelt, MD 20771

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    Data Center Contact
    ASDC USER SERVICES

    NASA/LARC/SD/ASDC

    NASA Langley Atmospheric Science Data Center
    User and Data Services
    NASA Langley Research Center
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