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      SSEC / FIRE Arctic Cloud Experiment Home Page
     Dates:  13 May 1998 - 8 June 1998  

     Location:  Northern Alaska, based out of Fort Wainwright, Fairbanks, Alaska  

     Principal Investigator:  Drs. Steve Ackerman and Hank Revercomb  

     U. Wisconsin's Objectives:  

      1) Observe the infrared radiative characteristics of the Arctic,  
      2) Retrieve cloud radiative properties,  
      3) Retrieve atmospheric temperature and moisture profiles, and  
      4)  Support calibration of the MODIS Airborne Simulator.
     NASA's Overall Objectives:  
      1) Study impact of Arctic clouds on radiation exchange between surface, atmosphere, and space; as well as the influence of surface characteristics of sea ice, leads, and ice melt ponds on clouds.  
      2) Study 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.  
      3) Improve current climate model simulations of the Arctic climate, especially with respect to clouds and their effects on the surface energy budget.  
      4) Address a number of scientific questions dealing with radiation, cloud microphysics, and atmospheric chemistry. 
     


    This page is being maintained by SSEC/CIMSS personnel while the Arctic Cloud experiment is 
    being conducted. Please refer questions to Von P. Walden at vonw@ssec.wisc.edu. 

    Created on 5 May 1998. 
    Last Updated 22 May 1998.