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SAFARI 2000 MICRO-PULSE LIDAR CLOUD AND AEROSOL DATA, DRY SEASON 2000
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Summary
Abstract: Two Micro-Pulse Lidar (MPL) systems were deployed to Africa for the SAFARI 2000 experiment. One MPL was setup in Mongu, Zambia and the other was setup in Skukuza, South Africa. The primary focus of MPL work during SAFARI was to study the vertical distribution and optical properties of smoke from biomass burning in the region.

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Description: SAFARI 2000 MICRO-PULSE LIDAR CLOUD AND AEROSOL DATA, DRY SEASON 2000


Geographic Coverage
 N: -23.5902 S: -25.5025  E: 33.1174  W: 30.7568

Data Set Citation
Dataset Originator/Creator: CAMPBELL, J.SPINHIRNE, J.WELTON, J.
Dataset Title: SAFARI 2000 MICRO-PULSE LIDAR CLOUD AND AEROSOL DATA, DRY SEASON 2000
Dataset Release Date: 2004
Dataset Release Place: Oak Ridge, Tennessee, U.S.A.
Dataset Publisher: Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center
Data Presentation Form: Online Files
Dataset DOI: doi:10.3334/ORNLDAAC/715
Online Resource: http://mercury.ornl.gov/ornldaac/send/query?term2=715&term2attribut...


Temporal Coverage
Start Date: 2000-08-16
Stop Date: 2000-09-24


Location Keywords
CONTINENT > AFRICA > SOUTHERN AFRICA


Science Keywords
ATMOSPHERE >CLOUDS >CLOUD PROPERTIES >CLOUD VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION    [Definition]


ISO Topic Category
CLIMATOLOGY/METEOROLOGY/ATMOSPHERE


Platform
GROUND STATIONS    [Information]


Instrument
MPL >Micropulse Lidar


Project
EOSDIS >Earth Observing System Data Information System    [Information]
ESIP >Earth Science Information Partners Program    [Information]
SAFARI 2000 >The Southern African Regional Science Initiative Project    [Information]
CWIC >CEOS WGISS Integrated Catalog    [Information]


Keywords
LIDAR
CLOUDS
AEROSOLS
EXTINCTION
SAFARI 2000
OPTICAL PROPERTIES
VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION
OPTICAL DEPTH PROFILES
CLOUD VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION
AEROSOL VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION


Data Set Progress
COMPLETE


Data Center
THE OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY (ORNL) DISTRIBUTED ACTIVE ARCHIVE CENTER (DAAC)    [Information]
Data Center URL: http://daac.ornl.gov/
Dataset ID: 715

Data Center Personnel
Name: ORNL DAAC USER SERVICES OFFICE
Phone: (865) 574-7447
Email: uso at daac.ornl.gov
Contact Address:
ORNL DAAC User Services Office
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
City: Oak Ridge
Province or State: TN
Postal Code: 37831-6407
Country: USA


Personnel
J. CAMPBELL
Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT
Phone: (506) 452-3638
Fax: (506) 452-2495
Contact Address:
P.O. Box 4000, 1350 Regent Street South
City: Fredericton
Province or State: New Brunswick
Postal Code: E3B 5P7
Country: Canada


ORNL DAAC USER SERVICES OFFICE
Role: DIF AUTHOR
Phone: (865) 574-7447
Email: uso at daac.ornl.gov
Contact Address:
ORNL DAAC User Services Office
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
City: Oak Ridge
Province or State: TN
Postal Code: 37831-6407
Country: USA


Publications/References
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Climate Change Studies, American Meteorological Society, Long Beach, CA, pp. 284-289. Key, J. 1999. The cloud and surface parameter retrieval (CASPR) system for polar AVHRR. Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Key, J. and A.J. Schweiger. 1998. Tools for atmospheric radiative transfer: Streamer and FluxNet. Computers and Geosciences 24(5): 443-451. Key, J., J. Collins, C. Fowler, and R.S. Stone. 1997. High-latitude surface temperature estimates from thermal satellite data. Remote Sensing of the Environment 61: 302-309. Kidwell, K.D. 1995. NOAA Polar Orbiter Data User's Guide, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NESDIS. Maslanik, J.A., J. Key, C. Fowler, T. Nguyen, 2000. AVHRR-derived regional cloud and surface conditions during SHEBA and FIRE-ACE. Journal of Geophysical Research, in press. Maslanik, J., C. Fowler, J. Key, T. Scambos, T. Hutchinson, and W. Emery, 1998. AVHRR
-based Polar Pathfinder products for modeling applications. Annals o
f Glaciology 25: 388-392. Meier, W.N., J.A. Maslanik, J.R. Key, and C.W. W. Fowler. 1997. Multiparameter AVHRR-derived products for Arctic climate studies, Earth Interactions, Vol. 1. Ninnis, R.M., W.J. Emery, and M.J. Collins. 1986. Automated extraction of pack ice motion from advanced very high resolution radiometer imagery. Journal of Geophysical Research 91(C9): 10,725-10,734. Rao, C.R.N. and J. Chen. 1999. Revised post-launch calibration of channels 1 and 2 of the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer on board the NOAA-14 spacecraft. Rao, C.R.N. and J. Chen. 1994. Post-launch calibration of the visible and near-infrared channels of the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer on NOAA-7, -9, and -11 Spacecraft. NOAA Technical Report NESDIS 78, 22 pp. Rao, C.R.N. 1993. Nonlinearity corrections for the thermal infrared channels of the AVHRR: Assessment and recommendations. NOAA Technical Report, NESDIS 69, 31 pp. Rosborough, G.W., D.G. Baldwin, and W.J. Emery. 199
4. Precise AVHRR image navigation. IEEE Transactions in Geosciences and Remote Sensing 32(3):644-657. Saunders, R.W. and K.T. Kriebel. 1988. An improved method for detecting clear sky and cloudy radiances from AVHRR data. International Journal of Remote Sensing 9(1): 123-150. Schweiger, A., C. Fowler, J. Key, J. Maslanik, J. Francis, R. Armstrong, M.J. Brodzik, T. Scambos, T. Haran, M. Ortmeyer, S. Khalsa, D. Rothrock, and R. Weaver. 1999. P-Cube: A multisensor data set for polar climate research. Proceedings on the 5th Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography, American Meteorological Society, Dallas, TX, 15-20 Jan., 136-141. Schweiger, A.J. and J.R. Key. 1992. Arctic cloudiness: Comparison of ISCCP-C2 and Nimbus-7 satellite-derived cloud products with a surface-based cloud climatology. Journal of Climate 5(12): 1514-1527. Stowe, L.L., E.P. McClain, R. Carey, P. Pellegrino, and G.G. Gutman. 1991. Global distribution of cloud cover derived from NOAA/AVHRR operatio
nal satellite data. Advances in Space Research 11(3): 51-54. Stroeve
, J.C., J.E. Box, C. Fowler, T. Haran, and J. Key, 2000. Intercomparison between in situ and AVHRR Polar Pathfinder-derived surface albedo over Greenland. Remote Sensing of the Environment, in press. Stroeve, J.C., 2000. Assessment of Greenland albedo variability from the AVHRR Polar Pathfinder data set. Journal of Geophysical Research, submitted for publication. Suttles, J.T., R.N. Green, P. Minnis, G.L. Smith, W.F. Staylor, B.A. Wielicki, I.J. Walker, D.F. Young, V.R. Taylor, and L.L. Stowe. 1988. Angular radiation models for Earth-Atmosphere system. Volume I-Shortwave radiation, NASA Reference Publication 1184, 144 pp. Walton, C.C., J.T. Sullivan, C.R.N. Rao, and M.P. Weinreb. 1998. Corrections for detector nonlinearities and calibration inconsistencies of the infrared channels of the advanced very high resolution radiometer. Journal of Geophysical Research 103(C2):3323-3337. Yamanouchi, T., K. Suziki, and S. Kawaguchi. 1987. Detection of clouds in Antarctica from i
nfrared multispectral data of AVHRR. Journal of Meteorological Society Japan 65(6): 949-961.

Creation and Review Dates
DIF Creation Date: 2004-06-28
Last DIF Revision Date: 2009-02-04


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