10.26023/H0E2-XRA8-330F
Hanesiak, J.
University of Manitoba
Stewart, R.
University of Manitoba
Moore, K.
University of Toronto
Taylor, P.
York University
Strapp, W.
Environment Canada
Wolde, M.
National Research Council Canada
STAR CloudSat Satellite Data. Version 1.0
UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory
2020
scientific data
University Corporation For Atmospheric Research (UCAR):National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR):Earth Observing Laboratory (EOL):Data Managment and Services (DMS)
UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory, datahelp@eol.ucar.edu
2007-10-01T00:00:00Z/2007-12-01T00:00:00Z
2020-09-23T20:36:11Z
en
251.011
https://data.eol.ucar.edu/file/download/54A5C653E9852/Metadata_CloudSat.pdf
https://data.eol.ucar.edu/file/download/54A5C654FC46A/STAR_Data_Report_Final2011.pdf
https://www.eol.ucar.edu/field_projects/star
430 data files
2 ancillary/documentation files
2 GiB
ASCII: ASCII Text (text/plain)
XLS: Excel (application/vnd.ms-excel)
ZIP: PKZIP (application/zip)
1.0
These data are available to be used subject to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research ("UCAR") terms and conditions.
CloudSat was selected as a NASA Earth System Science Pathfinder satellite mission in 1999 to provide observations necessary to advance our understanding of cloud abundance, distribution, structure, and radiative properties. Since 2006, CloudSat has flown the first satellite-based millimeter-wavelength cloud radar—a radar that is more than 1000 times more sensitive than existing weather radars. Unlike ground-based weather radars that use centimeter wavelengths to detect raindrop-sized particles, CloudSat's radar allows us to detect the much smaller particles of liquid water and ice that constitute the large cloud masses that make our weather. (excerpt taken from the CloudSat home page: http://cloudsat.atmos.colostate.edu/overview and http://www.cloudsat.cira.colostate.edu/dataHome.php ) The Cloud Profiling Radar (CPR) is a 94-GHz nadir-looking radar which measures the power backscattered by clouds as a function of distance from the radar. The CPR was developed jointly by NASA/JPL and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA). The overall design of the CPR is simple, well understood, and has strong heritage from many cloud radars already in operation in ground-based and airborne applications. The design of the CPR is driven by the science objectives. The original requirements on CPR were: sensitivity defined by a minimum detectable reflectivity factor of -30 dBZ, along-track sampling of 2 km, a dynamic range of 70 dB, 500 m vertical resolution and calibration accuracy of 1.5 dB. The minimum detectable reflectivity factor requirement was reduced to -26 dBZ when the mission was changed to put CloudSat into a higher orbit for formation flying. Details on the data format can be found at: http://www.cloudsat.cira.colostate.edu/data-products
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