HIAPER Atmospheric Radiation Package (HARP) Spectral Irradiance (SI)

During PACDEX, the GV collected spectral irradiance measurements in the zenith and nadir directions. This data is stored in IDL SAVE file format, one file per day. To access this data, start idl and use the restore command to ingest the data. Data are available for days there were flights. See the missions page within the PACDEX field catalog for a list of flights made. Please contact Bruce Kindel (kindel@ucar.edu) before using the nadir spectral irradiance data acquired during PACDEX. An aircraft vibration problem related to the mounting of the instrument degraded the stability of the measurements. Some flights are of good quality (i.e. stable to 1-5%) while others are of rather poor quality (30-40% changes). This pertains only to the nadir data. The zenith data was stable to 1-2% over the entire experiment.

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  2007-04-29T00:00:00Z
    End:  2007-05-24T23:59:59Z

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Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 2007-04-29T00:00:00Z
Temporal Range End 2007-05-24T23:59:59Z
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Bounding Box North Lat 70.00000
Bounding Box South Lat 30.00000
Bounding Box West Long 130.00000
Bounding Box East Long -100.00000
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Documentation #1 : README.HARP_SI_Nadir
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Resource Format Binary (application/octet-stream)
Standardized Resource Format Binary
Asset Size 4424 MB
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Author Peter Pilewskie
Samuel R. Hall
Kirk Ullmann
Richard E. Shetter
Bruce Kindel
Publisher N/A
Publication Date 2008-03-06T16:07:36
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.5065/D6DN43CW
Alternate Identifier 96.002
Resource Version 1.0
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2025-10-07T21:44:38Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.eol::96.002
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation Peter Pilewskie, Samuel R. Hall, Kirk Ullmann, Richard E. Shetter, Bruce Kindel. (2008). HIAPER Atmospheric Radiation Package (HARP) Spectral Irradiance (SI). 1.0. https://doi.org/10.5065/D6DN43CW. Accessed 25 October 2025.

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