S-HIS is an airborne instrument that measures emitted thermal radiation at high spectral resolution between 3.3 and 18 microns. S-HIS produces sounding data (vertical profiles of temperature and other parameters) with 2 kilometer resolution (at nadir) across a 40 kilometer ground swath from a nominal altitude of 20 kilometers when aboard a NASA ER-2 aircraft or 20 kilometer ground swath from a nominal altitude of 10 kilometers when aboard the NASA DC-8 aircraft. The radiance measurements are used to obtain temperature and water vapor profiles of the Earth's atmosphere.
2017-06-16 15:08:09.0 [sritz] update Definition (Definition provided by GHRC DAAC: https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/);
2017-06-16 15:07:02.0 [sritz] insert AltLabel (id: null text: Scanning High-resolution Interferometer Sounder language code: en); insert Definition (id: null text: S-HIS is an airborne instrument that measures emitted thermal radiation at high spectral resolution between 3.3 and 18 microns. S-HIS produces sounding data (vertical profiles of temperature and other parameters) with 2 kilometer resolution (at nadir) across a 40 kilometer ground swath from a nominal altitude of 20 kilometers when aboard a NASA ER-2 aircraft or 20 kilometer ground swath from a nominal altitude of 10 kilometers when aboard the NASA DC-8 aircraft. The radiance measurements are used to obtain temperature and water vapor profiles of the Earth's atmosphere. language code: en);
S-HIS
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