VAP : Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer (AERI)
Instrument Categories
Radiometric, Atmospheric Profiling
Output Products
- aeri01prof3feltz : Profiles of temperature and water vapor physically retrieved from the AERI spectra
- aerich1nf1turn : AERI ch. 1 radiance data, with uncorrelated random error (noise) filtered out
- aerich2nf1turn : AERI ch. 2 radiance data, with uncorrelated random error (noise) filtered out
- aerilblclouds : AERI: Line-by-Line comparison model, clouds
- aerilbldiff : AERI: LBLRTM spectral residuals
- aerilbldiffls : AERI: LBLRTM spectral residuals, w/ scaled (lssonde) sonde input
- aerilbldiffss : AERI: LBLRTM spectral residuals, w/ scaled (lbsonde) sonde input
- aeriprof : AERI: profiles of temperature and mixing ratio
- aeriprof3feltz : Profiles of temperature and water vapor physically retrieved from the AERI spectra
- qmeaerilbl : QME: derived AERI vs. LBRTM-resid. stats as f of bin, process, channel
- qmeaerilblls : QME: derived AERI vs. LBLRTM-resid. stats w/scaled (lssonde) sonde input
- qmeaerilblss : QME: derived AERI vs. LBLRTM-resid. stats w/scaled (lblsonde) sonde input
Primary Measurements
The following measurements are those considered scientifically relevant.
- Atmospheric moisture
- Atmospheric temperature
- Longwave spectral brightness temperature
- Longwave spectral radiance
Locations
- North Slope Alaska (NSA)
- Central Facility, Barrow AK (C1)
- Southern Great Plains (SGP)
- Central Facility, Lamont, OK (C1)
- Hillsboro, KS (Boundary) (B1)
- Morris, OK (Boundary) (B5)
- Purcell, OK (B6)
- Vici, OK (Boundary) (B4)
- SHEBA (Surface HEat Budget of the Arctic) (SHB)
- Ice Station SHEBA (C1)
- Tropical Western Pacific (TWP)
- Central Facility, Darwin, Australia (C3)
- Central Facility, Manus I., PNG (C1)
- Central Facility, Nauru Island (C2)
- ARM Mobile Facility (FKB)
- Black Forest, Germany (M1)
- ARM Mobile Facility (GRW)
- Graciosa Island, Azores, Portugal (M1)
- ARM Mobile Facility (HFE)
- Shouxian, Anhui, China (M1)
- ARM Mobile Facility (NIM)
- Niamey, Niger (M1)
- ARM Mobile Facility (PGH)
- ARIES Observatory, Nainital, Uttarkhand, India (M1)
- ARM Mobile Facility (PYE)
- Point Reyes, CA (M1)
