readme.ceilometer       Readme file for ceilometer data         (D.Phillips)

Data is split into IOP’s

Within each folder there is a /data and /images directories. 

Ceilometer files are named cloYYYYMMDD.dat, where:

YYYY -> Year
MM   -> Month
DD   -> Day

For ceilometer data format please refer to the document "clo_data_description.doc"

Please visit http://vortex.nsstc.uah.edu/mips/ for detailed instrumentation information.

Images are broken into 4KM and 15KM files

Image file are named clo_YYYYMMDD_bsHHkm.png, where:

YYYY -> Year
MM   -> Month
DD   -> Day
HH   —> is the Height in km
Where bs is the backscatter plot 

Before you use any of this data, please contact us for recent updates and
possible corrections to the data sets.


If you have any questions, please contact:

Dustin Phillips
ph:  256-961-7008
email:  phillips@nsstc.uah.edu