First ISCCP Regional Experiment (FIRE) Cirrus 1 TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder (TOVS) Data

The First ISCCP Regional Experiment (FIRE) Cirrus 1 TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder (TOVS) Data includes temperature soundings from the TOVS sensor on NOAA-9 and -10 satellites. Soundings were made for each pixel over the cirrus Intensive Field Observations (IFO) network. Sounding information contains both standard levels and layer means. Cloud top heights and cloud amount/emissivity also are included. Temperature soundings were made at the overpass times of the NOAA-9 and NOAA-10 satellites when the FIRE network (Wisconsin) was in view of the satellite. There is a maximum of 4 observation times per day.

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Maintainer	Earthdata Forum
Last Updated	June 2, 2026, 21:20 (UTC)
Created	April 1, 2025, 15:45 (UTC)
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identifier	10.5067/ASDC_DAAC/FIRE/0086
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temporal	1986-10-14/1986-11-02
theme	{"Earth Science"}