Data · collection · 1999
Lidar Atmospheric Sensing Experiment (LASE) Validation
Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR
An extensive validation experiment was conducted in September 1995 from Wallops Island, Virginia, to evaluate the performance of the LASE (Lidar Atmospheric Sensing Experiment) system for the measurement of water vapor profiles under a wide range of atmospheric and solar background conditions.
Description
During this experiment, the LASE system was flown on a high-altitude (ER-2) aircraft on ten missions for a total of 60 hours. LASE measurements of tropospheric water vapor were compared with in situ measurements from balloons and aircraft that were flown under the ER-2 and with remote measurements from the ground and from aircraft.
A high-altitude aircraft (Lear Jet) was equipped with two in situ hygrometers, and a medium to low altitude aircraft (C-130) had onboard the NASA Langley airborne water vapor DIAL system and two in situ hygrometers. Several radiosondes were launched during each LASE flight, and some of these sondes were part of a concurrent international radiosonde intercomparison campaign sponsored by the World Meteorological Organization.
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The NASA Goddard Scanning Raman lidar also provided nighttime water vapor profile measurements from the ground. During this field experiment, LASE was also used in a number of atmospheric case studies including measurements of Hurricane Luis, a coastal sea breeze development, a strong cold front, an upper level front, and cirrus clouds.
Links
Get the data
- Virtual Directory for LASE_VALIDATION_1 cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/virtual-directory/collections/C3880706125-LARC_CLOUD ↗
download · from NASA CMR
- search.earthdata.nasa.gov /search/granules?p=C3880706125-LARC_CLOUD ↗
Earthdata Search for LASE_VALIDATION_1 (NASA Application to search, discover, visualize, refine, and access NASA Earth Observation data)
download · from NASA CMR
Where it is published
- Data set landing page for LASE_VALIDATION_1 asdc.larc.nasa.gov/project/LASE/LASE_VALIDATION_1 ↗
landing page · from NASA CMR
Documentation and papers
- LASE_VALIDATION asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/lase/readme/readme_lase_validation.txt ↗
documentation · from NASA CMR
- asdc.larc.nasa.gov /documents/lase/read_software/read_lase_gte.c ↗
Code for reading LASE data files - Direct File Download (.c)
documentation · from NASA CMR
- earthobservatory.nasa.gov /features/CriticalChem ↗
NASA Earth Observatory Article: "Critical Chemistry" By Dan Whipple, February 14, 2000
documentation · from NASA CMR
- asdc.larc.nasa.gov /documents/gte/guide/gte_project.pdf ↗
Global TroposphericExperiment (GTE) Langley DAAC Project/Campaign Document
documentation · from NASA CMR
- asdc.larc.nasa.gov /documents/gte/guide/pwb-fmat.pdf ↗
GTE - Data Archive Format Document, September 1994
documentation · from NASA CMR
- science.larc.nasa.gov /lidar/instruments-lase.html ↗
LIDAR Applications Group overview of the LASE system
documentation · from NASA CMR
- science-data.larc.nasa.gov /lidar/las/las_7.html ↗
Animated Loop of LASE_VAL - Flight 07 - Total Scattering Ratio on 09/21/1995
documentation · from NASA CMR
- Project/Campaign Document: LASE Langley DAAC asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/lase/guide/lase_project.pdf ↗
documentation · from NASA CMR
- ASDC data citation policy asdc.larc.nasa.gov/citing-data ↗
documentation · from NASA CMR
- NASA LaRC GTE Data Format Document, August 2000 asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/gte/guide/gte_fmt.pdf ↗
documentation · from NASA CMR
- LASE Validation Langley DAAC Data Set Document asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/lase/guide/base_lase_validation_dataset.pdf ↗
documentation · from NASA CMR
Catalogue records · 2
- CMR UMM-JSON cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C3880706125-LARC_CLOUD.umm_json ↗
metadata API · from NASA CMR
- CMR record cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C3880706125-LARC_CLOUD.html ↗
catalogue entry · from NASA CMR
Topics
- Stated by source
- Aerosol Backscatter · Differential Absorption Lidar · NASA Earth Resources-2
Provenance · 1 source records, 13 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| NASA Earthdata CMR | C3880706125-LARC_CLOUD | 15 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| access_level | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[instrument].gcmd_instrument:dial | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/aerosols/aerosol-backscatter | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:nasa-er-2 | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| created_date | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/Abstract |
| license_text | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| publication_date | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| spatial | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/SpatialExtent |
| temporal | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/TemporalExtents |
| title | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/EntryTitle |
| updated_date | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| version_label | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 |