AVAILABLE OBSERVATIONAL DATASETS FOR LINE-BY LINE MODEL VALIDATION
CampaignID
Date/Localisation
EAQUATE 14-18 sept 2004
(phase II)
Long: -6
Lat: 50
Platforms
Instruments
Comments
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Validate AIRS products
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Obtain S-HIS/NAST-I Spectral Radiance comparisons and AQUA and
AURA validation datasets
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FAMM data available on the website (registration required)
http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/data/faam/campaigns.html
Some data available freely on http://thorpex-data.ssec.wisc.edu/cgibin/DODS/nph-dods/UWSSEC/EAQUATE/ (not for the all campaign): SHIS; Dropsonde for 18 sept, MODIS, AIRS.
Proteus
FAAM Bae146
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S-HIS
NAST-I, NAST-M
FIRSC far-IR interferometer
in-situ aircraft and chemistry
instrumentation for temperature,
pressure, humidity, ozone and CO;
dropsondes
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Contacts:
PI: Jonathan P Taylor, Met Office (jonathan.p.taylor@metoffice.gov.uk)
Paul James, Campaign Manager (mailto:paja@faam.ac.uk)
CampaignID
Date/Localisation
Platforms
Instruments
Comments
THORPEX
18/02-13/03 2003
Honolulu, Hawaii
Long: ~ -150
Lat: ~35
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AQUA (sat)
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AIRS; MODIS
Data available on http://thorpex-data.ssec.wisc.edu/ :
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ER-2
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AQUA: AIRS; MODIS
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GOES-10
(sat):
SHIS ; NAST-I ; NAST-M ; MAS ;
CPL; fast in situ ozone probe.
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ER2: CPL; MAS; NAST-I; SHIS
Imager, sounder
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G4: Dropsondes; In situ measurements
Dropsondes
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GOES-10: radiance, image
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GULFSTREA
M IV (aircraft)
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TERRA (sat)
Contact: Science Issues: Robert Knuteson (robert.knuteson@ssec.wisc.edu)
Media and Public Information Requests:
Jen O'Leary (jennifer.oleary@ssec.wisc.edu)
CAMEX
III
5/08–20/09 98
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Ground-based
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Andros Island
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ER-2
Long: -77.8
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DC-8
Lat: 24.7
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AERI; water vapor GPS; chilled
mirror; LIDAR
Vaisala RS80 radiosondes
(balloon).
Quicklook archive: http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/camex3/archive.html
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AERI Radiance's
NAST-I
NAST-MPS
MAS
MIR
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Radiosondes
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GPS : Total Precipitable Water Vapor ; Surface Station PTU; Dewpoint
Temperature; AUTEC Surface Station Data:
Data available :
Other data available on http://ghrc.msfc.nasa.gov/shortcuts/camex3.html (fill first
and last name, phone number).
Contact: see http://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/camex3/instruments/ for each contact per
instrument
Bob Knuteson (robert.knuteson@ssec.wisc.edu) or Wayne Feltz
(wayne.feltz@ssec.wisc.edu) should be contacted if any are used in publication
or oral presentation:
CampaignID
Date/Localisation
Platforms
Instruments
Comments
Aura
Validation
Experiment
s
26/10-12/11 2004
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ER-2/WB-57
09-22 June 2005
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DC-8
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Note: Access to areas of the Aura Validation Data Center archive is restricted to
participants of and contributors to the Aura validation. For further information
concerning access, contact the AVDC.)
Houston, TX
S-HIS
AURA Products
AQUA Products
TERRA MODIS Cloud Products
AVDC Contact: Bojan R. Bojkov, Bojan.Bojkov@gsfc.nasa.gov
AVE2004
AVE2005
Some data quicklook available on
http://deluge.ssec.wisc.edu/%7Eshis/AVE_Houston2004/sh041029/sci_sh041029
/index.html#AURA
SHIS: http://gi.ssec.wisc.edu/~shis/shis/shisdata.php3
WINTEX
1999
15/03-0204 1999
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Ground-based
Northern
Midwest, US /
Canada
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ER-2
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High Spectral Resolution Lidar
(HSRL), Volume Imaging Lidar
(VIL)
AERI
Radian CLASS Radiosonde
System, UCAR Replicator
Radiosondes, Meteorological
Surface Station
MODIS Airborne Simulator
(MAS)
S-HIS; NAST-I; NAST-M
camera system
Data on (http://thorpex-data.ssec.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/DODS/nphdods/UWSSEC/AVE2004/): SHIS; MODIS; AIRS (not all data; to checked)
No profile given…
Contact:
Data support team : Tom Achtor , UWisconsin , tom.achtor@ssec.wisc.edu
Others: see http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/wintex/logistics.html#persons
OBS: No link to data was found except MAS data. To order MAS Level-1B
MAS data, contact:
Ms. Pat Hrubiak : hrubiak@daac.gsfc.nasa.gov
See http://mas.arc.nasa.gov/data/deploy_html/WINTEX_home.html
CampaignID
Date/Localisation
Platforms
Instruments
Comments
CLAMS
10/07-03/08 2001
Aircraft + surfacebased
observations.
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AirMISR - Airborne Multi-angle
Imaging SpectroRadiometer
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CAR - Cloud Absorption
Radiometer
Available Data Sets on
http://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/PRODOCS/clams/table_clams.html(user
registration is required, asking name, address, e-mail)
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Some S-HIS data available on http://thorpex-data.ssec.wisc.edu/cgibin/DODS/nph-dods/UWSSEC/CLAMS/ER2/SHIS/
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FAMM flights and data + ADRIEX forecast products available on the FAAM
website (theoretically: Dropsonde, Broad Band Radiometers
Non-core: ShortWave Spectrometer, Tropospheric Airborne Fourier
Transform Spectrometer
From NASA
Wallops Flight
Facility covering
the middle
Atlantic eastern
seaboard
ADRIEX
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Terra satellite
(CERES,
MISR,
MODIS)
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CERES - Clouds and the Earth's
Radiant Energy System
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CHESLIGHT - Chesapeake
Lighthouse Radiosonde Data
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GOES-8
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ER-2
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MAS - MODIS Airborne Simulator
OV-10
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UW CV-580
MODIS - Moderate Resolution
Imaging Spectroradiometer
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Cessna 210
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S-HIS
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Proteus
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Lear Jet
30/08–09/09
FAAM Bae-146
2004
Northern Italy,
the Adriatic Sea
and between
Northern Italy
and the West
coast of the Black
Sea.
S-HIS
NAST-I
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CampaignID
ARM data
center
Date/Localisation
Platforms
Instruments
Comments
Instrument
Categories
 Aerosols
 Airborne
Observations
 Atmospheric
Carbon
 Atmospheric
Profiling
 Cloud
Properties
 Derived
Quantities and
Models
 Ocean
Observations
 Radiometric
 Satellite
Observations
 Surface
Meteorology
 Surface/Subsu
rface
Properties
Measurement Categories
A user account is needed. See http://iop.archive.arm.gov/cgi-bin/accountmaint?http://www.archive.arm.gov/cgi-bin/arm-archive
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Aerosols
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Atmospheric Carbon
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Atmospheric State
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Cloud Properties
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Radiometric

Surface Properties
Note: the username created in one of the several user account should also be used
as a password for any user interface at the ARM Archive which requires a
password for access.
Information required: name, address, e-mail, institution and arm user role (large
possibility)
Data can be searched by:
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campaigns http://www.db.arm.gov/cgi-bin/IOP2/iops.pl?type=all
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instruments http://www.arm.gov/instruments/
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measurements http://www.arm.gov/measurements/
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Sites http://www.arm.gov/sites/
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+ external data http://www.arm.gov/xds/
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+ related dataset http://www.arm.gov/data/data_sets.stm
CampaignID
Date/Localisation
Platforms
Instruments
Comments
ARM/FIRE
Water
vapor
EXperimen
t
(AFWEX)
27/11–15/12
2000
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CART site
(ARM SGP
central
facility)
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CART Raman Lidar; GSFC Raman
Lidar; MPI DIAL; WFF Chilled
Mirror Sondes, AERI..., vaisala
radiosonde (ARM)
See http://www.db.arm.gov/cgibin/IOP2/selectAftIOP.pl?iopName=sgp2000afwex to order some data (arm user
login is requested), but HIS (Revercomb, Tobin) and NASTI (Smith) are not
available from there.
ARM CART site
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DC-8
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Long: 97.5
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Proteus
LASE; DLH; Cryo frostpoint/chilled-mirror; SHIS;
COAST; AeroSapient
See http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/afwex/README.AFWEX.DATA for AFWEX
Data Set Summary

NAST-I; NAST-M; FIRSC
Contact:
Oklahoma US,
Lat : 36.5
Dave Tobin, davet@ssec.wisc.edu
Contacts:
TWP AIRS
Validation
Sonde
Support
14/07-30/11 2002
NSA AIRS
validation
IOP
15/07-02/10 2002
Lead Scientist: Ted Cress ted.cress@pnl.gov
NSA AIRS
Validation
Sonde
Support
Nov. 2003 Feb. 2004
Ted Cress, Lead Scientist: ted.cress@pnl.gov
TWP AIRS
Validation
Soundings
Phase II
Apr 1-Sep 29
2004
Lead Scientist: Jimmy Voyles
Ted Cress, Lead Scientist: ted.cress@pnl.gov
Data Source Description: Balloon-borne sounding system(s)
CampaignID
Date/Localisation
FIRE
Arctic
Cloud
Experiment
(FIRE.AC
E)
April to July
1998.
Platforms
Instruments
Comments
Data described on
http://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/PRODOCS
/fire/table_fire3_ace.html.
The overall objective of the FIRE Arctic Cloud Experiment is to produce an
integrated data set that:

Data available on
http://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/HORDERB
IN/HTML_Start.cgi
supports the analysis and interpretation of physical processes that couple
clouds, radiation, chemistry and the atmospheric boundary layer;

provides in situ data for testing satellite, aircraft and surface-based remote
sensing analyses; and
Login is required but can be obtained
by filling a simple form.
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provides initial data, boundary conditions, forcing functions, and test data to
support Arctic FIRE cloud modeling efforts.
OBS: more researches are possible if subject of interest (artic+cloud).
CampaignID
Date/Localisation
The
Atmospheri
c
Chemistry
Experiment
(ACE)
Launched into a
high-inclination
(74°), circular
low-earth (650
km from the
surface) orbit on
August 13, 2003.
Platforms
Instruments
Comments
High spectral resolution infrared
Fourier Transform Spectrometer (FTS),
ACE-FTS
ACE-FTS Data:
UV-visible-NIR spectrophotometer,
MAESTRO.
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Level 0: Interferograms
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Level 1: Spectra
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Level 2: Temperature, Pressure and Volume Mixing Ratio (VMR) profiles as
a function of altitude
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Level 2 Data include VMR profiles for several trace gas molecules, such as
H2O, O3, N2O, CO, CH4, NO, NO2, HNO3, HF, HCl, N2O5, ClONO2,
CCl2F2, CCl3F, COF2, CHF2Cl, HDO, SF6
MAESTRO Data

NO2 and O3 profiles are retrieved from the UV spectrometer at the
measurement tangent altitudes and interpolated at the regular tangent height
grid.
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O3 profiles are retrieved from the VISIBLE spectrometer at the measurement
tangent altitudes and interpolated at the regular tangent height grid.
NOTE: Access to ACE data is only available to ACE Science Team members and
other authorized users
Validation program access for ACE Science Team members and other authorized
users.
ACE Mission Scientist and FTS Principal Investigator: Peter Bernath, University
of Waterloo
Contact: info@acebox.uwaterloo.ca