NOAA R/V Ron Brown Aerosol Lidar Data [Brewer/NOAA-ESRL-CSD]

Contact: Alan Brewer
         Alan.Brewer@noaa.gov
         NOAA/ESRL
         Boulder, Colorado

Data set Description:

This dataset consists of two netCDF files which contain Lidar data
collected from the R/V Ron Brown during the VOCALS 2008 project. 
The vocalsRhbLidarWP.nc file contains vertical profiles of horizontal wind
and the vocalsRhbLidarVertStats.nc file has vertical profiles of 
vertical velocity turbulence (and higher statistical moments) and 
aerosol back scatter signal strength (snr).

File Structure:

The vocalsRhbLidarVertStats.nc file has the following structure:
                  year: 2008
                  yDay: [2058x1 double]
              latitude: [2058x1 double]
             longitude: [2058x1 double]
       cloudBaseHeight: [2058x1 double]
    cloudBaseHeightVar: [2058x1 double]
                height: [272x1 double]
                  wVar: [272x2058 double]
                 wSkew: [272x2058 double]
                 wKurt: [272x2058 double]
              instWVar: [272x2058 double]
               epsilon: [272x2058 double]
                   snr: [272x2058 double]
                 count: [272x2058 double]

and the vocalsRhbLidarWP.nc file has the following structure:
      year: 2008
          yDay: [2073x1 double]
      latitude: [2073x1 double]
     longitude: [2073x1 double]
        height: [299x1 double]
         speed: [299x2073 double]
     direction: [299x2073 double]
        dSpeed: [299x2073 double]
    dDirection: [299x2073 double]
         count: [299x2073 double]
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