PCAPS ISS Ceilometer Data
https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/233.008

Summary
This dataset contains ceilometer data collected by the NCAR/EOL Integrated
Sounding System (ISS) ceilometer during the Persistent Cold-Air Pool Study
(PCAPS) between 01 December 2010 and 17 February 2011. These data are in daily
tar files containing raw ASCII format ceilometer data and have not been
quality controlled.

Identifiers
 * Local archive identifier: 233.008
 * doi:10.5065/D6N29V99
   https://doi.org/10.5065/D6N29V99

Versions
  1.0

Citation
 UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory, Brown, W. 2016. PCAPS ISS Ceilometer
 Data. Version 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory.
 https://doi.org/10.5065/D6N29V99 Accessed 25 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
 * PCAPS: Persistent Cold-Air Pool Study
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project/PCAPS

Additional information
 * Frequency: continuous
 * Language: English

Categories
 * Upper Air

Platforms
 * NCAR/EOL Integrated Sounding System - ISS

Instruments
 * Ceilometers

GCMD Science Keywords
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD PROPERTIES > CLOUD BASE HEIGHT
 * EARTH SCIENCE > SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING > LIDAR > LIDAR BACKSCATTER

Related links
 * info: Integrated Sounding System
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/observing_facilities/iss
 * info: ISS Data Overview
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/content/data-overview
 * homepage: PCAPS Home Page
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/field_projects/pcaps

Temporal coverage
 * Begin datetime: 2010-12-01 00:00:00 
 * End datetime: 2011-02-17 23:59:59 

Spatial coverage
 * Maximum (North) Latitude: 42.00
 * Minimum (South) Latitude: 39.00
 * Minimum (West) Longitude: -114.00
 * Maximum (East) Longitude: -111.00

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/233.008?format=datacite
 * ISO/TC 211: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/233.008?format=isotc211