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PREFIRE  

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  • PREFIRE will document, for the first time, variability in spectral fluxes from 5-45 μm on hourly to seasonal timescales.Two 6U CubeSats in distinct 470–650 km altitude, near-polar (82°-98° inclination) orbitseach carrying a miniaturized IR spectrometer, covering 0- 45 μm at 0.84 μm spectral resolution, operating for one seasonal cycle (a year). The Arctic is Earth’s thermostat. It regulates the climate by venting excess energy received in the tropics. Nearly 60% of Arctic emission occurs at wavelengths > 15 μm (FIR) that have never been systematically measured. PREFIRE improves Arctic climate predictions by anchoring spectral FIR emission and atmospheric GHE. https://prefire.ssec.wisc.edu/ (en)

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  • 2023-04-27 17:25:25.0 [sritz] Insert Concept add broader relation (PREFIRE [08684c69-224d-4c4a-a1a7-ea3933ac9081,1291334] - P - R [6e0ee015-7fde-40bf-af5a-5b95ad966e32,1284854]);
  • 2023-04-27 17:26:11.0 [sritz] insert Definition (id: null text: PREFIRE will document, for the first time, variability in spectral fluxes from 5-45 μm on hourly to seasonal timescales. language code: en);
  • 2023-04-27 17:27:45.0 [sritz] update Definition (PREFIRE will document, for the first time, variability in spectral fluxes from 5-45 μm on hourly to seasonal timescales.Two 6U CubeSats in distinct 470–650 km altitude, near-polar (82°-98° inclination) orbitseach carrying a miniaturized IR spectrometer, covering 0- 45 μm at 0.84 μm spectral resolution, operating for one seasonal cycle (a year). The Arctic is Earth’s thermostat. It regulates the climate by venting excess energy received in the tropics. Nearly 60% of Arctic emission occurs at wavelengths > 15 μm (FIR) that have never been systematically measured. PREFIRE improves Arctic climate predictions by anchoring spectral FIR emission and atmospheric GHE. https://prefire.ssec.wisc.edu/); update Definition (https://science.jpl.nasa.gov/projects/prefire/, https://prefire.ssec.wisc.edu/);
  • 2023-04-27 17:34:04.0 [sritz] insert AltLabel (id: null category: primary text: Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment language code: en);

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