WCR L2 Up-Down Merged with Vertical Velocity Estimate Improved using Sounding
Winds
https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/534.003

Summary
This dataset contains 24 IOPs (23 Research Flights - IOP 18 had no flights)
worth of data obtained from the Wyoming Cloud Radar (WCR) aboard the UWKA
Research Aircraft. The data is considered an analysis product rather than the
standard WCR data offering due to an additional field (w_corrected) that has
been appended to the standard Level 2 (L2) file. This analysis is only being
offered with the L2 merged (up-down antennas) product. The w_corrected field
employs a sounding correction to produce an estimate of the hydrometeor
vertical velocity field from the WCR along level flight legs. The sounding
name/time and w_corr field descriptors have been included as attributes to the
.nc (netCDF) files. In general, the IPC Crouch Sounding from the SNOWIE
project was employed to correct the w field. This is a single sounding closest
to the center flight time for each RF in SNOWIE, at a location closest to the
UWKA flight tracks in SNOWIE (Crouch). These data are available as tar.gz
files by flight.

Identifiers
 * Local archive identifier: 534.003
 * doi:10.5065/D69C6W3W
   https://doi.org/10.5065/D69C6W3W

Versions
  1.0

Citation
 Geerts, B., Tripp, A. 2017. WCR L2 Up-Down Merged with Vertical Velocity
 Estimate Improved using Sounding Winds. Version 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth
 Observing Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.5065/D69C6W3W Accessed 19 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
 * SNOWIE: Seeded and Natural Orographic Wintertime clouds - the Idaho Experiment
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project/SNOWIE

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

Categories
 * Aircraft
 * Radar

Platforms
 * University of Wyoming King Air

Instruments
 * Doppler Radar
 * Radar
 * WCR - Wyoming Cloud Radar

GCMD Science Keywords
 * EARTH SCIENCE > SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING > RADAR > MEAN RADIAL VELOCITY
 * EARTH SCIENCE > SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING > RADAR > DOPPLER VELOCITY
 * EARTH SCIENCE > SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING > RADAR > RADAR REFLECTIVITY

Documentation
 * W-CORRECTED_WCR_L2_README.txt [5 KiB]
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/file/download/530EBE3535515/W-CORRECTED_WCR_L2_README.txt

Related links
 * homepage: SNOWIE Home Page
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/field_projects/snowie
 * info: SNOWIE Missions
   https://catalog.eol.ucar.edu/snowie/tools/missions
 * info: SNOWIE Data Policy
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/content/snowie-data-policy

Temporal coverage
 * Begin datetime: 2017-01-08 00:00:00 
 * End datetime: 2017-03-16 23:59:59 

Spatial coverage
 * Maximum (North) Latitude: 50.00
 * Minimum (South) Latitude: 40.00
 * Minimum (West) Longitude: -125.00
 * Maximum (East) Longitude: -105.00

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

Additional contact information
 * author: Bart Geerts <geerts@uwyo.edu>
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/2214
 * author: Adam Tripp <atripp1@uwyo.edu>
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/2259

Alternate metadata formats
 * DataCite: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/534.003?format=datacite
 * ISO/TC 211: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/534.003?format=isotc211