University of Wisconsin - Madison   CIMSS MODIS

CIMSS personnel are also involved in flight support, instrument calibration and data processing of the MODIS Airborne Simulator (MAS) instrument, a 50 channel spectrometer that measures reflected solar and thermal emitted radiation from the shortwave visible (.5 microns) through the longwave infrared (14 microns).  The 19 MODIS-like channels and high altitude platform (NASA's ER-2) allow MAS to perform as a surrogate to MODIS in order to test MODIS algorithms pre-launch. 

On site mission and forecasting support has been provided by CIMSS during selected MAS field experiments, and MODIS algorithms have been applied to most of these

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MODIS Science Products

Field Experiments Involving MAS and CIMSS:

• Winter Cloud Experiment (WINCE)
  
• Subsonic Aircraft Contrail and Cloud Effects Special Study (SUCCESS)
  
• Smoke Cloud and Radiation - Brazil (SCAR-B)
  

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Publications: 

• King, et al, 1996: Airborne Scanning Spectrometer for Remote Sensing of Cloud,  Aerosol, Water Vapor, and Surface Properties.  Journal of Atmos. and Oceanic Tech., Vol. 13, No. 4.
  
• Strabala, K. I,  et al. 1997:  Cloud properties determined from MODIS Airborne Simulator (MAS) SUCCESS observations.  Presented at the ERIM Third Airborne Remote Sensing Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark.
  
• Ackerman, S. A., K. I. Strabala, R. A. Frey, C. C. Moeller and W. P. Menzel, 1995: Cloud Mask for the MODIS Airborne Simulator (MAS):  Preparation for MODIS. Presented at the AGU Fall Meeting, Science and the First EOS Platform, EOS-AM1 session.  76th AMS Conference, Atlanta, GA. Jan. 28-Feb. 2, 1996.
  
• Gumley, L.E., and M.D. King, 1995: Remote Sensing of Flooding in the U.S. Upper Midwest during the Summer of 1993. Bull. Am. Met. Soc., 76, 933-943.
  
• Moeller, C. C., D. D. LaPorte, K. I. Strabala, P. Hajek, and W. P. Menzel,  Spectral characterization of MODIS Airborne Simulator (MAS) LWIR bands and application to MODIS science data cloud products.  Earth Observing Systems II Conference, July 28-29, 1997, SPIE, pp 235-243.
  
• Ackerman, S. A., C. C. Moeller, K. I. Strabala, H. E. Gerber, L. E. Gumley, W. P. Menzel, S-C. Tsay, 1997: Retrieval of effective microphysical properties of clouds: a wave cloud case study.  Accepted for publication in Journal of Geophysical Research Letters.
  

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