METCRAX ISS Surface Meteorology Data
https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/158.003

Summary
The Meteor Crater Experiment (METCRAX) is a 3-year meteorological research
program supported by the Mesoscale Dynamics Division of the U. S. National
Science Foundation (NSF). The program is investigating the structure and
evolution of temperature inversions or cold-air pools that form on a daily
basis in topographic basins and valleys. As part of this research a
one-month-long field experiment will be conducted in October 2006 in Arizona's
Meteor Crater, a simple near-ideal topographic basin formed by the impact of a
meteor. In this basin, the physical processes leading to the buildup and
breakdown of temperature inversions and the formation of atmospheric seiches
(atmospheric oscillations in the basin caused by wind disturbances at the
basin crest) can be studied without the complications introduced by more
complex topography. This dataset contains surface meteorology data collected
by the NCAR/EOL Integrated Sounding System (ISS) during METCRAX. This data are
available in daily netCDF files and have not been QC'd.

Identifiers
 * Local archive identifier: 158.003
 * doi:10.5065/D6610XQQ
   https://doi.org/10.5065/D6610XQQ

Versions
  1.0

Citation
 UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory, Brown, W. 2016. METCRAX ISS Surface
 Meteorology Data. Version 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory.
 https://doi.org/10.5065/D6610XQQ Accessed 16 Apr 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
 * METCRAX: Meteor Crater Experiment
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project/METCRAX

Additional information
 * Frequency: continuous
 * Language: English

Categories
 * Surface

Platforms
 * NCAR/EOL Integrated Sounding System - ISS
 * Weather Stations

Instruments
 * Automated Weather System

GCMD Science Keywords
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS > WIND DIRECTION
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR INDICATORS > HUMIDITY > RELATIVE HUMIDITY
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS > WIND SPEED
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > PRECIPITATION RATE
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION > LONGWAVE RADIATION
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION > NET RADIATION
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > SURFACE TEMPERATURE > AIR TEMPERATURE
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE > SURFACE PRESSURE
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION > SHORTWAVE RADIATION

Related links
 * homepage: METCRAX Project Homepage
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/field_projects/metcrax
 * info: Integrated Sounding System
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/observing_facilities/iss
 * info: ISS Data Overview
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/content/data-overview

Temporal coverage
 * Begin datetime: 2006-09-27 00:00:00 
 * End datetime: 2006-11-01 23:59:59 

Spatial coverage
 * Maximum (North) Latitude: 35.20
 * Minimum (South) Latitude: 35.20
 * Minimum (West) Longitude: -11.20
 * Maximum (East) Longitude: -11.20

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

Additional contact information
 * author: EOL Data Support <datahelp@eol.ucar.edu>
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/1
 * originator: William Brown <wbrown@ucar.edu>
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/597

Alternate metadata formats
 * DataCite: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/158.003?format=datacite
 * ISO/TC 211: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/158.003?format=isotc211