Abstract: DATA ACCESS The TOGA COARE Data Information System distributes all TOGA COARE information. "http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/coare/" The RAMS data are available upon request from the investigator. BACKGROUND TOGA COARE was a multidisciplinary, international research effort that investigated the scientific phenomena associated with the interaction between the atmosphere and the ocean in the warm pool region of the western Pacific. The field experiment phase of the program took place from 1 November 1992 through 28 February 1993 and involved the deployment of oceanographic ships and buoys, several ship and land based Doppler radars, multiple low and high-level aircraft equipped with Doppler radar and other airborne sensors, as well as a variety of surface-based instruments for in situ observations. The NASA component of TOGA COARE, while contributing directly to overall COARE objectives, emphasized scientific objectives associated with the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) and NASA's cloud and radiation program. The Radiation Measurement System (RAMS) consists of multiple sensors and was installed on the NASA DC-8. 1. Broad spectral bandpass hemispherical field of view solar radiometers (BBHSR) consisting of electrically calibrated pyroelectric detectors with optical chopping and null-balanced operation; 2. Narrow spectral bandpass, narrow field of view multiple spectral channels infrared radiance radiometers (NFOVR), consisting of a liquid nitrogen cooled reference black body and electrically calibrated pyroelectric direction system; 3. Broadband hemispherical field of view multiple spectral channels infrared flux radiometer (HFOVR), which is similar to the BBHSR with the exception of a long pass interference filter using the field of view inversion method; 4. Total direct diffuse multiple spectral channels radiometer (TDDR) incorporating a unique optical radiation collecting system to collimate and spectrally separate hemispherical radiation.
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Supplemental Information: REFERENCE: NASA TOGA COARE Project Office, 1993: Mission Summary Reports, TOGA COARE. NASA Langley Research Center, Mail Stop 483, Hampton, VA 23666. NASA TOGA COARE Project Office, 1994: NASA/TOGA COARE Science Data Workshop II Proceedings, Albuquerque, New Mexico, March 15-17, 1994, NASA Langley Research Center, Mail Stop 483, Hampton, VA 23666, 4 pp. TOGA COARE International Project Office (TCIPO), 1992: TOGA COARE Operations Plan, Working Version September 1992. University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO 80307, 138 pp. TOGA COARE International Project Office (TCIPO), 1993: TOGA COARE Intensive Observing Period Operations Summary. University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO 80307, 505 pp. TOGA COARE International Project Office (TCIPO), 1994: Summary Report of the TOGA COARE International Data Workshop, Toulouse, France, 2 - 11 August 1994, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO 80307, 170 pp. Webster, P.J., and R. Lukas, 1992: TOGA COARE: The Coupled Ocean- Atmosphere Response Experiment. Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc. 73, 1377-1416. World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), 1985: Scientific Plan for the TOGA Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment. WCRP Publications Series, No. 3 Addendum, World Meteorological Organization, Geneva, 96 pp.

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Theme Keywords: ISO Topic Keyword, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, GCMD SCIENCE PARAMETERS, EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD TYPES, EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION > ALBEDO, EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION > HEAT FLUX, EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION > SOLAR IRRADIANCE, EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION > SOLAR RADIATION, EARTH SCIENCE > SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING > INFRARED WAVELENGTHS > BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE, EARTH SCIENCE > SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING > INFRARED WAVELENGTHS > INFRARED FLUX, EARTH SCIENCE > SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING > MICROWAVE > BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE, EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD BASE, GCMD PLATFORM, AIRCRAFT, GCMD INSTRUMENT, BBHSR > BROAD SPECTRAL BANDPASS HEMISPHERICAL SOLAR RADIOMETER, HFOVR > HEMISPHERICAL FIELD OF VIEW RADIOMETER, INFRARED RADIOMETERS, NFOVR > NARROW FIELD OF VIEW RADIOMETER, RADIOMETERS, TDDR > TOTAL-DIRECT-DIFFUSE MULTICHANNEL RADIOMETER, PROJECT, TOGA COARE > TOGA COUPLED OCEAN ATMOSPHERE RESPONSE EXPERIMENT, ESIP > EARTH SCIENCE INFORMATION PARTNERS PROGRAM, EOSDIS > EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEM DATA INFORMATION SYSTEM, ANCILLARY KEYWORDS, Absorption, Air-sea, Aircraft, Atmospheric, Atmospheric Experiment, Bandpass, Bbhsr, Brightness Temperature, Broad, Broadband, Cirrus, Cloud Base, Cloud Optical Depth, Cloud Top, Coare, Convection, Daac, Dc-8, Dc8, Field-of-view, Flux, Gsfc, Hemispherical, Hfovr, Ifa, Infrared, Intensive Flux Array, Intensive Observing Period, Iop, Longwave, Meteorology, Microphysics, Nasa, Nfovr, Pyro Detector, Radiance, Radiation, Radiometer, Rams, Shortwave, Solar, Spectral, Sst, Tddr, Toga, Toga Coare, Townsville, Trmm, Warm Pool, Western Pacific Ocean, Www, Eosdis, ISO TOPIC CATEGORY, CLIMATOLOGY/METEOROLOGY/ATMOSPHERE, IMAGERY/BASE MAPS/EARTH COVER
Place Keywords: VERTICAL LOCATION > BOUNDARY LAYER, GEOGRAPHIC REGION > EQUATORIAL, OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN, VERTICAL LOCATION > TROPOSPHERE

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