TITLE: Lidar ARM Micro-pulse Lidar Data [ARM]
     
CONTACTS:

Connor Flynn
Battelle, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
phone: 509-375-2041
fax: 509-375-4545
email: Connor.Flynn@arm.gov


1.0  DATA SET OVERVIEW
     

This data set contains 1 minute resolution cloud base height data
from the Department of Energy (DOE) Atmospheric Radiation Measurement 
(ARM) Southern Great Plains (SGP) Micropulse Lidar (MPL).  The MPL is
located at the ARM Central Facility near Lamont, Oklahoma.  This data 
set covers the period from 13 May to 25 June 2002.  The data are in 
netCDF format.


2.0  INSTRUMENT DESCRIPTION


2.1  Instrumentation

Full information on the ARM MPL instrumentation is available from
ARM at:
http://www.arm.gov/docs/instruments/static/mpl.html

2.2  Station Locations

Site                Elevation (m)      Lat.     Long.
Central Facility        316          36.606N   97.485W


3.0  DATA COLLECTION AND PROCESSING


Full information on the ARM MPL data collection and processing
is available from ARM at:
http://www.arm.gov/docs/instruments/static/mpl.html

General information on ARM data quality is available from ARM at:

http://dq.arm.gov/cgi-bin/dqmenu.pl

UCAR/JOSS conducted no processing or quality control on these data.


4.0  DATA FORMAT


4.1  Data Format

These data are in network Common Data Form (netCDF) format.  For 
information on netCDF see:

http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/

4.2  File Naming Conventions

sgpmplnor1campC1.c1.20020605.000025.cdf

where:
        sgpmplnor1camp is the data type (1 minute MPL using Camp algoritm)
        C1 represents the facility id (here ARM SGP central facility)
        c1 represents the data level
        2002 - four digit year
        06 - two digit month
        05 - two digit day
        00 - two digit hour
        00 - two digit minute
        25 - two digit second
        cdf - netCDF format extention


5.0  DATA REMARKS


None.


6.0  REFERNCES


None.