By: Gill

Gill — Thu, 18 Jul 2013 09:51:20 +0000

Thanks for the answer Lesley, i have the same question about HIRDLS. This experiment data helps to know more about distributions of temperature and several trace species in the stratosphere and upper troposphere

By: Lesley L. Smith

Lesley L. Smith — Tue, 25 Jun 2013 16:25:46 +0000

Hi Menage,
Excellent question! The second bad thing to happen to the HIRDLS experiment was on March 17, 2008 at 10:51 GMT a piece of the apparatus, the chopper, shut down. What this means is we stopped producing new data as of that date.
However, the HIRDLS team has been working hard since then (and before) to deal with the effects of the insulating material and subtracting it from the data. This has allowed us to keep releasing data even after March 2008.
Recently, we released a bunch of new data including new chemical species such as water. If you’re interested in the data, you can find it here:
HIRDLS DATA PRODUCTS from the GES DISC
As for science, we are only now gearing up and getting a chance to write scientific papers using the HIRDLS data.
Thanks for the question!
-Lesley L. Smith, Ph.D.

By: Ménage

Ménage — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 10:26:09 +0000

Please, can you confirm the HIRDLS chopper shutdown on March 17, 2008 and has not produced science since?

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