The SAFIRE (Service des Avions Français Instrumentés pour la Recherche en Environnement) Falcon 20 was deployed during the FENNEC SOP in June 2011 to study the atmospheric boundary layer dynamics, the radiative budget as well as dust emission and transport over the Sahara.
Strategie d'observation
The Falcon 20 performed eighteen flights from the Island of Fuerteventura (Canary Islands), fourteen of which were made over the central Sahara, for a total of 65h (see Figure 1). The Falcon 20 was equipped with the nadir pointing backscatter lidar LNG (de Villiers et al., 2010) allowing the measurement of atmospheric reflectivity at three wavelengths (355, 532 and 1064 nm) to analyze the structure and radiative characteristics of desert dust plumes. The Falcon 20 was also equipped with a dropsondes launching device, radiometers (broad-band up- and down-looking pyranometers and pyrgeometers), the radiometer CLIMAT (Legrand et al., 2000) as well as in situ PTU (pressure /temperature/humidity) and wind sensors. The Falcon consistently flew at an altitude of 11 km amsl.
Description de l'instrument
Type d'instrument
Earth Remote Sensing Instruments > Active Remote Sensing > Profilers/Sounders > Lidar/Laser Sounders > LIDAR > Light Detection and Ranging
Information géographique
Site 1
Site
F-FALCON 20
Type de plateforme
AIRCRAFT
Longitude minimale (°)
-10
Longitude maximale (°)
0
Latitude maximale (°)
30
Latitude minimale (°)
10
Paramètre mesuré
Nom du paramètre
Reflectivity
Mot-clé du paramètre
Spectral/Engineering > Radar > Radar Reflectivity
Unité
Not communicated - N.C
Date de début (yyyy-mm-dd)
2011-06-02
Date de fin (yyyy-mm-dd)
2011-06-23
Précision du capteur / Incertitude
Information sur l'utilisation des données
Conditions d'utilisation des données
FENNEC Data Policy. Acknowledgement sentence: The FENNEC-France project is funded by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR), the Institut National des Sciences de l'Univers (INSU/CNRS) through the LEFE program, by the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) through the TOSCA program and by Météo-France. FENNEC also benefited from support from the University Paris Est in Créteil (UPEC) and the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA). FENNEC is a cooperative project built on international collaborations between France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Mauritania and Algeria.
Dataset as provided by the Principal Investigator