Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports Volume 39 April 6, 2001

Greenland, with the objective of quantifying the errors incurred by the AMSR-E sea ice algorithms resulting from the presence
of melt ponds. A secondary objective of the mission was to develop a microwave capability to discriminate between melt ponds
and seawater using low-frequency microwave radiometers. Meltpond2000 was a multiagency effort involving personnel from
the Navy, NOAA, and NASA. The field component of the mission consisted of making five 8-hour flights from Thule Air Base
with a Naval Air Warfare Center P-3 aircraft over portions of Baffin Bay and the Canadian Arctic. The aircraft sensors were provided
and operated by the Microwave Radiometry Group of NOAA’s Environmental TechnologyLaboratory. A Navy ice observer
from the National Ice Center provided visual documentation of surface ice conditions during each of the flights. Two of the five
flights were coordinated with Canadian scientists making surface measurements of melt ponds at an ice camp located near Resolute
Bay, Canada. Coordination with the Canadians will provide additional information on surface characteristics and will be of
great value in the interpretation of the aircraft and high-resolution satellite data sets.
Author
Earth Observing System (EOS); Algorithms; Microwave Radiometers; Sea Ice; Sea Water; Surface Properties
20010022495 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD USA
BOREAS TF-9 SSA-OBS Tower Flux, Meteorological, and Soil Temperature Data
Hall, Forrest G., Editor, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA; Huemmrich, Karl, Editor, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center,
USA; Massheder, Jonathan M., Edinburgh Univ., UK; Moncrieff, John B., Edinburgh Univ., UK; Rayment, Mark B., Edinburgh
Univ., UK; Jarvis, Paul G., Edinburgh Univ., UK; November 2000; 36p; In English
Contract(s)/Grant(s): RTOP 462-33-01
Report No.(s): NASA/TM-2000-209891/VOL206; NAS 1.15:209891/VOL206; Rept-2000-03136-0/VOL206; No Copyright;
Avail: CASI; A03, Hardcopy; A01, Microfiche
The BOREAS TF-9 team collected energy, carbon dioxide, and water vapor flux data at the BOREAS SSA-OBS site during
the growing season of 1994 and most of the year for 1996. From the winter of 1995 to 1996, soil temperature data were also collected
and provided. The data are available in tabular ASCII files.
Author
Carbon Dioxide; Meteorological Parameters; Data Acquisition; Soils
20010022496 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD USA
BOREAS TF-9 SSA-OBS Branch Level Flux Data
Rayment, Mark B., Edinburgh Univ., UK; Jarvis, Paul G., Edinburgh Univ., UK; Hall, Forrest G., Editor, NASA Goddard Space
Flight Center, USA; Huemmrich, Karl, Editor, Maryland Univ., USA; November 2000; 22p; In English
Contract(s)/Grant(s): RTOP 462-33-01
Report No.(s): NASA/TM-2000-209891/VOL205; NAS 1.15:209891/VOL205; Rept-2000-03136-0/VOL205; No Copyright;
Avail: CASI; A03, Hardcopy; A01, Microfiche
The BOREAS TF-9 team collected data that describe carbon dioxide and water vapor fluxes from foliage at the BOREAS
SSA-OBS site from 07-April through 23-November-1996. The data are available in tabular ASCII files.
Author
Data Acquisition; Carbon Dioxide
20010022497 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD USA
BOREAS Elevation Contours over the NSA and SSA in ARC/INFO Generate Format
Knapp, David, Raytheon Information Technology and Scientific Services, USA; Nickeson, Jaime, Raytheon Information
Technology and Scientific Services, USA; Hall, Forrest G., Editor, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA; September 2000;
19p; In English
Contract(s)/Grant(s): RTOP 462-33-01
Report No.(s): NASA/TM-2000-209891/VOL105; Rept-2000-03136-0/VOL105; NAS 1.15:209891/VOL105; No Copyright;
Avail: CASI; A03, Hardcopy; A01, Microfiche
This data set was prepared by BORIS Staff by reformatting the original data into the ARC/INFO Generate format. The original
data were received in SIF at a scale of 1:50,000. BORIS staff could not find a format document or commercial software for
reading SIF; the BOREAS HYD-08 team pro-vided some C source code that could read some of the SIF files. The data cover the
BOREAS NSA and SSA. The original data were compiled from information available in the 1970s and 1980s. The data are available
in ARC/INFO Generate format files.
Author
Data Acquisition; Reading
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