Proteus NPOESS Atmospheric Sounder Testbed (NAST-I) Data
https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/77.082

Summary
This dataset contains thermodynamic products (temperature, water vapor
profiles, and surface properties) retrieved from NAST-I measurements.
Associated aircraft parameters, geo-location, and time are also included.

Identifiers
 * Local archive identifier: 77.082

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

 Smith, J. 2007. Proteus NPOESS Atmospheric Sounder Testbed (NAST-I) Data.
 Version 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory.
 https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/77.082 Accessed 15 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
 * IHOP_2002: International H2O Project 2002
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project/IHOP_2002

Additional information
 * Spatial Type: point
 * Frequency: no set schedule
 * Language: English

Categories
 * Profiler
 * Upper Air

Platforms
 * Aircraft, NASA Proteus

Instruments
 * NPOESS Aircraft Sounder Testbed-Interferometer- NAST-I

GCMD Science Keywords
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR PROFILES > WATER VAPOR MIXING RATIO PROFILES
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD PROPERTIES > CLOUD TOP PRESSURE
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > UPPER AIR TEMPERATURE > BOUNDARY LAYER TEMPERATURE
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > AEROSOLS > AEROSOL PARTICLE PROPERTIES
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > UPPER AIR TEMPERATURE > VERTICAL PROFILES
 * EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > SURFACE THERMAL PROPERTIES > SKIN TEMPERATURE
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD MICROPHYSICS > CLOUD OPTICAL DEPTH/THICKNESS
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD PROPERTIES > CLOUD FRACTION

Documentation
 * NAST_notes.txt [1 KiB]
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/datafile/nph-get/77.082/NAST_notes.txt

Temporal coverage
 * Begin datetime: 2002-05-30 00:00:00 
 * End datetime: 2002-06-14 23:59:59 

Spatial coverage
 * Maximum (North) Latitude: 42.00
 * Minimum (South) Latitude: 32.00
 * Minimum (West) Longitude: -105.00
 * Maximum (East) Longitude: -90.00

Primary contact information
 * pointOfContact: Daniel K. Zhou <d.k.zhou@larc.nasa.gov>
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/39

Additional contact information
 * author: Jim Smith <jimsmith@ucar.edu>
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/950

Alternate metadata formats
 * DataCite: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/77.082?format=datacite
 * ISO/TC 211: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/77.082?format=isotc211