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    • First ISCCP Regional Experiment (FIRE) Cirrus 1 NASA ER-2 Cloud Lidar System Data

    Metadata Updated: April 10, 2026

    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. This data set contains cloud top height and ground height calculations from the NASA ER-2 Cloud LIDAR System (CLS) during the Wisconsin FIRE experiment in October, 1986.

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    Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date April 10, 2026

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    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date April 10, 2026
    Publisher NASA/LARC/SD/ASDC
    Maintainer
    Identifier 10.5067/ASDC_DAAC/FIRE/0073
    Data Last Modified 2026-04-06
    Category Earth Science
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
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    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id 0d43007f-1c94-41cb-b2de-f55883433e39
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    License https://www.usa.gov/government-works
    Old Spatial "CARTESIAN",{"Boundary":{"Points":{"Latitude":39.82,"Longitude":-97.5},{"Latitude":39.82,"Longitude":-86.18},{"Latitude":47.5,"Longitude":-86.18},{"Latitude":47.5,"Longitude":-97.5},{"Latitude":39.82,"Longitude":-97.5}}}
    Program Code 026:000
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 2218019b958b923e3bb12b436777e7c3da25e36b80e1d9b9c3481ccca95d4f4b
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 1986-10-13/1986-11-02

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