Start Date | Start Time | End Date | End Time | Data Quality Metric |
---|---|---|---|---|
10/18/2006 | 0000 | 11/22/2006 | 2359 | Does not affect quality |
Subject: | NSA/AERI/C1 - Reprocessed: Failed temp sensor affected calibration |
DataStreams: | nsaaerich1C1.b1, nsaaerich2C1.b1, nsaaerisummaryC1.b1 |
Description: | On 18 Oct 2006, a thermistor that measures the temperature of the blackbody support structure failed, resulting in erroneously high values. This measurement, which is captured by the field "BBsupportStructureTemp", provides the temperature of the radiance that is reflected into the blackbody (i.e., captured by the field "calibrationAmbientTemp"), and thus the calibrated radiance (the field "mean_rad") was incorrect and outside the ARM specification that the AERI data should be absolutely calibrated to within 1% of the ambient radiance. The broken thermistor was fixed on 22 Nov 2006. Fortunately, since the emissivity of the blackbodies is so high, absolute accuracy of the calibrationAmbientTemp is not required but should be within a few degrees. The radiance data have been recalibrated using the ambient blackbody temperature (the field "calibrationCBBtemp") as a surrogate of the calibrationAmbientTemp. Historically, the calibrationAmbientTemp and calibrationCBBtemp measurements have been within 1-2 deg. As a result of this recalibration, the radiance data are now absolutely calibrated to better than 1%. |
Suggestions: | Retrieve reprocessed data set from ARM Archive. |
Measurements: | nsaaerich1C1.b1: more
nsaaerisummaryC1.b1: more nsaaerich2C1.b1: more |