NOAA/NCEP Stage IV Hourly Precipitation Imagery
https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/113.003

Summary
This data set contains hourly Stage IV precipitation for the continental US
produced by the NOAA/National Weather Service Advanced Hydrologic Prediction
Service. The images have roughly 4km resolution and depict hourly total
precipitation. A multisensor approach is used to obtain the observed
precipitation. The WSR-88D radar precipitation estimates are compared to the
gauge reports and a bias is derived and applied to the radar field. The radar
and gauge fields are then combined into the multisensor field. This data set
contains imagery from the two PLOWS field phases, 6 February to 30 March 2009
and 27 October 2009 to 10 March 2010. No imagery are available for the period
between the field phases.

Identifiers
 * Local archive identifier: 113.003
 * doi:10.26023/VZK2-YXVQ-3R01
   https://doi.org/10.26023/VZK2-YXVQ-3R01

Versions
  1.0

Citation
 National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP). 2010. PLOWS: NOAA/NCEP
 Stage IV Hourly Precipitation Imagery. Version 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth
 Observing Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.26023/VZK2-YXVQ-3R01 Accessed 02 May
 2024.

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Acknowledgement
In addition to the citation reference and any other acknowledgements,
please acknowledge NCAR/EOL in your publications with text such as:

  Data provided by NCAR/EOL under the sponsorship of
  the National Science Foundation.
  https://data.eol.ucar.edu/

Related projects
 * PLOWS: Profiling of Winter Storms
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project/PLOWS

Additional information
 * Spatial Type: raster
 * Frequency: hourly
 * Language: English

Categories
 * Precipitation
 * Radar

Platforms
 * Weather Stations

Instruments
 * Doppler Radar
 * NEXt Generation RADar (NEXRAD)
 * Radar
 * Rain Gauges

GCMD Science Keywords
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > PRECIPITATION AMOUNT > HOURLY PRECIPITATION AMOUNT

Related links
 * info: PLOWS Data Policy
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/content/plows-data-policy-draft
 * info: PLOWS EOL Project Homepage
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/field_projects/plows
 * info: PLOWS 2008-2009 Missions
   http://catalog.eol.ucar.edu/plows_08-09/missions/missions.html
 * info: PLOWS 2009-2010 Missions
   http://catalog.eol.ucar.edu/plows_09-10/missions/missions.html

Temporal coverage
 * Begin datetime: 2009-02-06 12:00:00 
 * End datetime: 2010-03-10 23:59:59 

Spatial coverage
 * Maximum (North) Latitude: 50.00
 * Minimum (South) Latitude: 25.00
 * Minimum (West) Longitude: -125.00
 * Maximum (East) Longitude: -65.00

Primary contact information
 * pointOfContact: EOL Data Support <datahelp@eol.ucar.edu>
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/1

Additional contact information
 * author: National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP)
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/1304

Alternate metadata formats
 * DataCite: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/113.003?format=datacite
 * ISO/TC 211: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/113.003?format=isotc211