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Wisconsin Snow and Cloud Terra 2000 Experiment

Atmospheric Composition, Climate Variability & Change

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The Campaign

The Wisconsin Snow and Cloud Terra 2000 (WISC-T2000) Experiment was a NASA campaign aimed at validating satellite data from the MODIS instrument on Terra. WISC-T2000 involved one deployment based in Madison, Wisconsin, from February to March 2000. The NASA ER-2 aircraft was equipped with remote sensing instruments such as the MODIS Airborne Simulator (MAS), Air Multi-angle Imaging Spectrometer (AirMISR), and Cloud Lidar System (CLS) to gather data on cloud and snow properties and atmospheric conditions in the Upper Midwest for Terra validation. The ER-2 also flew over the Department of Energy (DoE) Atmospheric Radiation Measurements (ARM) User Facility in Oklahoma, where ground truth measurements were collected. WISC-T2000 was one of the initial validation campaigns for the Terra satellite.

Wisconsin Snow and Cloud Experiment – Terra 2000

2000-02-24 — 2000-03-13

Upper Midwest, Great Lakes, Canada, Wisconsin
boreal spring, boreal winter, cold

N: 50°N

S: 35°N

W: 100°W

E: 75°W

Additional Notes

MAS data from the WISC-T2000 campaign is available at LAADS DAAC.

Repositories

CLOUD PROPERTIES
CLOUD HEIGHT
CLOUD MICROPHYSICS
CLOUDS
SNOW PROPERTIES
SNOW
REFLECTANCE
ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE
MOISTURE STRUCTURE
SURFACE CHARACTERISTICS
SATELLITE VALIDATION
RADIOMETRIC CALIBRATION
TERRA
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Events

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20012002
NASA
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Steve Ackerman, Chris Moeller
Tom Achtor, Ray Garcia, Gary Wade
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