NCAR S-Pol radar moments data
https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/485.008

Summary
S-Pol radar moments data collected during the Plains Elevated Convection at
Night (PECAN) project from 26 May 2015 to 16 July 2015. The data are available
as hourly tar files (~2.7GB/file) in cfRadial format.

WARNING: This is a large dataset. Online orders can accommodate one day's
worth of data per order. For larger orders, please contact EOL Data Support to
have a USB disk sent in the mail.

Identifiers
 * Local archive identifier: 485.008
 * doi:10.5065/D6PN93VJ
   https://doi.org/10.5065/D6PN93VJ

Versions
  0.1: This is uncorrected in-field (preliminary) data.
  1.0: This is the QC Version 1 data.
  2.0: Fri Aug 19 10:19:01 MDT 2016 A problem was found in the S-Pol PECAN RHI
scans for 1-17 June 2015. These scans had earlier been re-processed from
original time series data to correct a beam-smearing problem. During
that re-processing, the H and V powers were incorrectly swapped,
resulting in bad values for Zdr and PHIDP. This problem has now been
corrected in QC Ver2 (qcv2). All scans, even those that were not
impacted, have been re-bundled during creation of this newer data set.

Citation
 NCAR/EOL S-Pol Team. 2016. PECAN: NCAR S-Pol radar moments data. Version 2.0.
 UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.5065/D6PN93VJ
 Accessed 20 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
 * PECAN: Plains Elevated Convection at Night
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project/PECAN

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

ISO Topic Categories
 * climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere

Categories
 * Radar

Platforms
 * S-PolKa

Instruments
 * Doppler Radar
 * Polarimetric Radar
 * Radar
 * S-PolKa

GCMD Science Keywords
 * EARTH SCIENCE > SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING > RADAR > RADIAL VELOCITY
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > SOLID PRECIPITATION > ICE PELLETS > SLEET
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS > WIND SPEED
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > SOLID PRECIPITATION > SNOW > SNOW PELLETS
 * EARTH SCIENCE > SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING > RADAR > MEAN RADIAL VELOCITY
 * EARTH SCIENCE > SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING > RADAR > RADAR REFLECTIVITY
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > WIND PROFILES > WIND DIRECTION PROFILES
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > UPPER LEVEL WINDS > WIND DIRECTION
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > SOLID PRECIPITATION > HAIL
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > SOLID PRECIPITATION > SNOW > SNOW GRAINS
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > WIND PROFILES > WIND VELOCITY/SPEED PROFILES
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > LIQUID PRECIPITATION > RAIN
 * EARTH SCIENCE > SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING > RADAR > SPECTRUM WIDTH
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > SOLID PRECIPITATION
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS > WIND DIRECTION
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > LIQUID PRECIPITATION
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > SOLID PRECIPITATION > ICE PELLETS > SMALL HAIL
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > LIQUID PRECIPITATION > DRIZZLE
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > SOLID PRECIPITATION > SNOW
 * EARTH SCIENCE > SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING > RADAR > DOPPLER VELOCITY
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > WIND PROFILES > LINE OF SIGHT WINDS
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > HYDROMETEORS
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD MICROPHYSICS
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD DYNAMICS
 * EARTH SCIENCE > SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING > RADAR > RADAR BACKSCATTER
 * EARTH SCIENCE > SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING > PLATFORM CHARACTERISTICS > LINE OF SIGHT VELOCITY
 * EARTH SCIENCE > SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING > RADAR > RETURN POWER
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD PROPERTIES
 * EARTH SCIENCE > SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING > RADAR
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > UPPER LEVEL WINDS > WIND SPEED

Documentation
 * README_spol_qcv2.pecan.txt [1 KiB]
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/file/download/5222823156002/README_spol_qcv2.pecan.txt

Related links
 * info: NCAR/UNIDATA CfRadial Data File Format
   https://github.com/NCAR/CfRadial/blob/master/docs/CfRadialDoc.v1.5.20211201.pdf
 * info: PECAN Data Policy
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/content/pecan-data-policy
 * homepage: PECAN Home Page
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/field_projects/pecan
 * info: PECAN Missions
   https://catalog.eol.ucar.edu/pecan/tools/missions

Temporal coverage
 * Begin datetime: 2015-05-28 00:00:00 
 * End datetime: 2015-07-16 23:59:59 

Spatial coverage
 * Maximum (North) Latitude: 39.00
 * Minimum (South) Latitude: 35.00
 * Minimum (West) Longitude: -101.00
 * Maximum (East) Longitude: -96.00

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

Additional contact information
 * author: NCAR/EOL S-Pol Team
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/3162

Alternate metadata formats
 * DataCite: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/485.008?format=datacite
 * ISO/TC 211: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/485.008?format=isotc211