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FIRE/ACE

Level-1C data

Campaign Summary

Campaign Name FIRE/ACE
Campaign Location Barrow, Alaska
Inclusive Dates May 20 - June 24, 1998
Aircraft Flight Scientist Prof. Peter Hobbs
Status Campaign Completed

 

CAR Data Summary

Principal Investigator Dr. Michael King
Spectral Bands Configuration
Calibration Type Final
Missions Flown 21

 

 

 

CAR Mission (Flight) Pages
(Click on flight number or map to load mission page)

Flight # 1751   1998-05-20
Flight map for flight number 1751
 		 Flight # 1752   1998-05-21
Flight map for flight number 1752
 		 Flight # 1753   1998-05-23
Flight map for flight number 1753
 
Flight # 1754   1998-05-27
Flight map for flight number 1754
 		 Flight # 1755   1998-05-28
Flight map for flight number 1755
 		 Flight # 1756   1998-05-29
Flight map for flight number 1756
 
Flight # 1757   1998-05-30
Flight map for flight number 1757
 		 Flight # 1758   1998-06-01
Flight map for flight number 1758
 		 Flight # 1759   1998-06-02
Flight map for flight number 1759
 
Flight # 1760   1998-06-03
Flight map for flight number 1760
 		 Flight # 1761   1998-06-05
Flight map for flight number 1761
 		 Flight # 1762   1998-06-06
Flight map for flight number 1762
 
Flight # 1763   1998-06-07
Flight map for flight number 1763
 		 Flight # 1764   1998-06-09
Flight map for flight number 1764
 		 Flight # 1765   1998-06-11
Flight map for flight number 1765
 
Flight # 1766   1998-06-13
Flight map for flight number 1766
 		 Flight # 1767   1998-06-04
Flight map for flight number 1767
 		 Flight # 1768   2000-09-18
Flight map for flight number 1768
 
Flight # 1769   1998-06-19
Flight map for flight number 1769
 		 Flight # 1770   1998-06-22
Flight map for flight number 1770
 		 Flight # 1771   1998-06-23
Flight map for flight number 1771
 
Flight # 1772   1998-06-24
Flight map for flight number 1772
 		    

 

Campaign Objective: 

FIRE, the First ISCCP (International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project) Regional Experiment, went to the Arctic to study a variety of Arctic cloud systems under spring and summer conditions. A team of national and international scientists conducted the FIRE Arctic Cloud Experiment (ACE) in a two-phase field campaign, starting in April, 1998, and a second phase in July, 1998.

The scientific objectives of FIRE/ACE are to study impact of Arctic clouds on radiation exchange between surface, atmosphere, and space, and the influence of surface characteristics of sea ice, leads, and ice melt ponds on these clouds. FIRE/ACE will attempt to document, understand, and predict the Arctic cloud-radiation feedbacks, including changes in cloud fraction and vertical distribution, water vapor cloud content, cloud particle concentration and size, and cloud phase as atmospheric temperature and chemical composition change. FIRE/ACE uses the data to focus on improving current climate model simulations of the Arctic climate, especially with respect to clouds and their effects on the surface energy budget. In addition, FIRE/ACE addresses a number of scientific questions dealing with radiation, cloud microphysics, and atmospheric chemistry.