First ISCCP Regional Experiment

OBS: The First ISCCP Regional Experiment (FIRE; ISCCP is the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project) was organized by a group of atmospheric scientists and federal agencies in 1984 to address fundamental processes involving clouds and radiation in the climate system. The coordinated research effort sought to expand the basic knowledge of the interaction between clouds and climate, to improve the understanding of radiative and physical processes climatically important cloud systems, and to improve satellite-based cloud-radiative monitoring systems (i.e., ISCCP) and global climate model parameterizations.