Table · collection · 2020
ORACLES Radiation Aircraft InSitu Data
Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR and NASA Data Portal — shown once because both records carry DOI 10.5067/asdc_daac/oracles_radiation_aircraftinsitu_data_1
ORACLES_Radiation_AircraftInSitu_Data are in situ radiation measurements collected onboard the P-3 Orion or ER-2 aircraft during the ObseRvations of Aerosols above CLouds and their intEractionS (ORACLES) campaign.
Description
These measurements were collected from August 19, 2016 – October 27, 2016, August 1, 2017 – September 4, 2017 and September 21, 2018 – October 27, 2018. ORACLES provides multi-year airborne observations over the complete vertical column of key parameters that drive aerosol-cloud interactions in the southeast Atlantic, an area with some of the largest inter-model differences in aerosol forcing assessments on the planet.
The P-3 Orion aircraft was utilized as a low-flying platform for simultaneous in situ and remote sensing measurements of aerosols and clouds and was supplemented by ER-2 remote sensing during the 2016 campaign. Southern Africa produces almost one-third of the Earth’s biomass burning aerosol particles. The ORACLES (ObseRvations of Aerosols above CLouds and their intEractionS) experiment was a five year investigation with three intensive observation periods (August 19, 2016 – October 27, 2016; August 1, 2017 – September 4, 2017; September 21, 2018 – October 27, 2018) and was designed to study key processes that determine the climate impacts of African biomass burning aerosols.
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ORACLES provided multi-year airborne observations over the complete vertical column of the key parameters that drive aerosol-cloud interactions in the southeast Atlantic, an area with some of the largest inter-model differences in aerosol forcing assessments. These inter-model differences in aerosol and cloud distributions, as well as their combined climatic effects in the SE Atlantic are partly due to the persistence of aerosols above clouds.
The varying separation of cloud and aerosol layers sampled during ORACLES allow for a process-oriented understanding of how variations in radiative heating profiles impact cloud properties, which is expected to improve model simulations for other remote regions experience long-range aerosol transport above clouds. ORACLES utilized two NASA aircraft, the P-3 and ER-2. The P-3 was used as a low-flying platform for simultaneous in situ and remote sensing measurements of aerosols and clouds in all three campaigns, supplemented by ER-2 remote sensing in 2016.
ER-2 observations will be used to enhance satellite-based remote sensing by resolving variability within a particular scene, and by guiding the development of new and improved remote sensing techniques.
Links
Get the data
- Resource doi.org/10.5067/asdc_daac/oracles_radiation_aircraftinsitu_data_1 ↗
DOI data set landing page for ORACLES_Radiation_AircraftInSitu_Data_1
landing page · download · DOI / persistent id · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- NASA Airborne Science ORACLES Posts airbornescience.nasa.gov/category/Mission/ORACLES ↗
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- Resource nasa.gov/centers/ames/earthscience/news/Making-It-Work-In-The-Field-Wit… ↗
NASA.gov Article “Making It Work in the Field with ORACLES”
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- NASA Earth Expeditions ORACLES Posts blogs.nasa.gov/earthexpeditions/tag/oracles ↗
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- Resource nasa.gov/image-feature/looking-back-at-the-science-and-lessons-learned-… ↗
NASA.gov Article “Looking back at the science and lessons learned from ORACLES”
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- ESPO home page for ORACLES espo.nasa.gov/oracles ↗
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- Original Metadata cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C3880791114-LARC_CLOUD.iso19115 ↗
download · from data nasa gov
- asdc.larc.nasa.gov /soot/power-user/ORACLES/2018 ↗
ORACLES Data on the Sub-Orbital Order Tool (SOOT) Power User Interface (UI)
download · from NASA CMR
- cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov /virtual-directory/collections/C3880791114-LARC_CLOUD ↗
Virtual Directory for ORACLES_Radiation_AircraftInSitu_Data_1
download · from NASA CMR
- search.earthdata.nasa.gov /search/granules?p=C3880791114-LARC_CLOUD ↗
Earthdata Search for ORACLES_Radiation_AircraftInSitu_Data_1 (NASA Application to search, discover, visualize, refine, and access NASA Earth Observation data)
download · from NASA CMR
- Resource asdc.larc.nasa.gov/soot/power-user/ORACLES/2016 ↗
download · from data nasa gov
- Resource asdc.larc.nasa.gov/citing-data ↗
download · from data nasa gov
- Resource airbornescience.nasa.gov/content/An_overview_of_the_ORACLES_ObseRvations_of_Aerosols_ab… ↗
download · from data nasa gov
Where it is published
- NASA Data Portal dataset page data.nasa.gov/dataset/oracles-radiation-aircraft-insitu-data-76620 ↗
landing page · from data nasa gov
Documentation and papers
- How to cite ORACLES data earthdata.nasa.gov/engage/open-data-services-software-policies/data-use-guidance ↗
documentation · from NASA CMR
- acp.copernicus.org /articles/special_issue978.html ↗
Special Issue: New observations and related modelling studies of the aerosol–cloud–climate system in the Southeast Atlantic and southern Africa regions
documentation · from NASA CMR
- ORACLES Overview Video youtube.com/watch?v=hkTOPtKWlrk ↗
documentation · from NASA CMR
- ORACLES Earthdata Home Page earthdata.nasa.gov/data/projects/oracles ↗
documentation · from NASA CMR
- asapdata.arc.nasa.gov /emas/data/deploy_html/oracles_home.html ↗
ORACLES Enhanced Modis Airborne Simulator (eMAS) Data
documentation · from NASA CMR
- ORACLES Mission Overview acp.copernicus.org/articles/21/1507/2021 ↗
documentation · from NASA CMR
Catalogue records · 3
- CMR UMM-JSON cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C3880791114-LARC_CLOUD.umm_json ↗
metadata API · from NASA CMR
- CKAN API data.nasa.gov/api/3/action/package_show?id=f1de0336-af48-44a5-9f35-bfb09e126… ↗
metadata API · from data nasa gov
- CMR record cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C3880791114-LARC_CLOUD.html ↗
catalogue entry · from NASA CMR
Topics
- Stated by source
- Atmospheric Radiation · NASA Earth Resources-2 · NASA P-3 · Shortwave Downward Irradiance · Solar Spectral Flux Radiometers
- From keywords
- Astronomy & Astrophysics · Earth & Environmental Science · Ocean & Atmospheric Science · Physics
- Inferred from text
- Satellite remote sensing 65%
Provenance · 2 source records, 20 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| NASA Earthdata CMR | C3880791114-LARC_CLOUD | 8 d ago | JSON v1 |
| NASA Data Portal | f1de0336-af48-44a5-9f35-bfb09e126c46 | 5 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| access_level | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:astronomy | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:ocean-atmospheric | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:physics | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[instrument].gcmd_instrument:ssfr | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/atmospheric-radiation | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/atmospheric-radiation/solar-irradiance/shortwave-downward-irradiance | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[modality].local:modality:remote-sensing | enrichment · NASA CMR | keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0 | title+description (65%) |
| concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:nasa-er-2 | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:nasa-p-3 | 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 |