Radar 3D mosaic, realtime
https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/485.082

Summary
3D mosaic of 19 NEXRAD (realtime) in NetCDF format, collected continuously
during the PECAN (Plains Elevated Convection at Night) project.

Each order can contain a maximum of 24 GB of data. For orders larger than ~8
hours, it may be preferable for you to access these data via a loaner external
hard drive. Contact us via the email at the bottom of this page for more
information.

Identifiers
 * Local archive identifier: 485.082
 * doi:10.5065/D6BG2M6R
   https://doi.org/10.5065/D6BG2M6R

Versions
  1.0

Citation
 Dixon, M. 2016. PECAN: Radar 3D mosaic, realtime. Version 1.0. UCAR/NCAR -
 Earth Observing Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.5065/D6BG2M6R 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
 * PECAN: Plains Elevated Convection at Night
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project/PECAN

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

Categories
 * Radar

Platforms
 * S-PolKa

Instruments
 * Doppler Radar
 * NEXt Generation RADar (NEXRAD)
 * Polarimetric Radar
 * Radar
 * S-PolKa

GCMD Science Keywords
 * EARTH SCIENCE > SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING > RADAR > RADAR REFLECTIVITY
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD MICROPHYSICS
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS
 * EARTH SCIENCE > SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING > RADAR > SPECTRUM WIDTH
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD DYNAMICS
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD PROPERTIES
 * EARTH SCIENCE > SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING > RADAR

Related links
 * info: MDV FORMAT Interface Control Document (ICD)
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/system/files/MDV_format_ICD.pdf
 * homepage: PECAN Home Page
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/field_projects/pecan
 * info: PECAN Data Policy
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/content/pecan-data-policy
 * info: PECAN Missions
   https://catalog.eol.ucar.edu/pecan/tools/missions

Temporal coverage
 * Begin datetime: 2015-05-26 00:00:00 
 * End datetime: 2015-07-23 23:59:59 

Spatial coverage
 * Maximum (North) Latitude: 43.00
 * Minimum (South) Latitude: 32.00
 * Minimum (West) Longitude: -105.00
 * Maximum (East) Longitude: -90.00

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

Additional contact information
 * author: Michael Dixon <dixon@ucar.edu>
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/1586

Alternate metadata formats
 * DataCite: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/485.082?format=datacite
 * ISO/TC 211: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/485.082?format=isotc211