NASA DC-8 In-situ Particle Size Distributions from the TSI LAS Data
https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/353.154

Summary
This data set contains NASA DC-8 Langley Aerosol Research Group Experiment
(LARGE) Laser Aerosol Spectrometer (LAS) PSL Data collected during the Deep
Convective Clouds and Chemistry Experiment (DC3) from 18 May 2012 through 22
June 2012. This data set is in ICARTT format. Please see the header portion of
the data files for details on instruments, parameters, quality assurance,
quality control, contact information, and data set comments.

Identifiers
 * Local archive identifier: 353.154

Versions
  1.0
  2.0: Corrected an issue with integrated statistics; size distributions are
unchanged

Citation
Example citation following ESIP guidelines (http://bit.ly/data_citation):

 Anderson, B., Langley Research Center (LaRC), NASA. 2017. NASA DC-8 In-situ
 Particle Size Distributions from the TSI LAS Data. Version 2.0. UCAR/NCAR -
 Earth Observing Laboratory. https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/353.154
 Accessed 10 Aug 2022.

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 eol-datahelp@ucar.edu
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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
 * DC3: Deep Convective Clouds & Chemistry Project
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project/DC3

Additional information
 * Spatial Type: point
 * Frequency: continuous
 * Language: English

Categories
 * Aircraft

Platforms
 * Aircraft, NASA DC-8

Instruments
 * TSI Laser Aerosol Spectrometer

GCMD Science Keywords
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD MICROPHYSICS > PARTICLE SIZE DISTRIBUTION
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > AEROSOLS > AEROSOL PARTICLE PROPERTIES

Documentation
 * DC8_Handbook-1.pdf [1100 KiB]
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/datafile/nph-get/353.154/DC8_Handbook-1.pdf
 * LARGE_SEAC4RS.pdf [256 KiB]
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/datafile/nph-get/353.154/LARGE_SEAC4RS.pdf

Related links
 * info: DC3 Missions
   http://catalog.eol.ucar.edu/dc3_2012/missions/missions.html
 * info: NASA Airborne Science Program: Langley Aerosol Research Group Experiment (LARGE)
   https://airbornescience.nasa.gov/instrument/LARGE

Temporal coverage
 * Begin datetime: 2012-05-18 00:00:00 
 * End datetime: 2012-06-22 23:59:59 

Spatial coverage
 * Maximum (North) Latitude: 42.06574
 * Minimum (South) Latitude: 24.96023
 * Minimum (West) Longitude: -106.76535
 * Maximum (East) Longitude: -84.94339

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

Additional contact information
 * author: Bruce E. Anderson <Bruce.E.Anderson@nasa.gov>
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/1428
 * author: Langley Research Center (LaRC), NASA
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/964

Alternate metadata formats
 * DataCite: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/353.154?format=datacite
 * ISO/TC 211: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/353.154?format=isotc211