NOAA/NCEP Stage IV Daily Precipitation Imagery
https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/113.002

Summary
This data set contains daily Stage IV precipitation for the NWS Central Region
produced by the NOAA/National Weather Service Advanced Hydrologic Prediction
Service. The images have roughly 4km resolution and depict 24 hour total
precipitation ending at 1200 UTC. A multisensor approach is used to obtain the
observed precipitation. The WSR-88D radar precipitation estimates are compared
to the gauge reports and a bias is derived and applied to the radar field. The
radar and gauge fields are then combined into the multisensor field. This data
set contains imagery from the two Profiling of Winter Storms (PLOWS) field
phases, 6 February to 30 March 2009 and 27 October 2009 to 10 March 2010. No
imagery are available for the period between the field phases.

Identifiers
 * Local archive identifier: 113.002
 * doi:10.26023/WYMF-RA08-ET0A
   https://doi.org/10.26023/WYMF-RA08-ET0A

Versions
  1.0

Citation
 National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP). 2010. PLOWS: NOAA/NCEP
 Stage IV Daily Precipitation Imagery. Version 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth
 Observing Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.26023/WYMF-RA08-ET0A Accessed 20 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
 * PLOWS: Profiling of Winter Storms
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project/PLOWS

Additional information
 * Frequency: daily
 * Language: English

Categories
 * Precipitation
 * Radar

Platforms
 * Weather Stations

Instruments
 * Doppler Radar
 * NEXt Generation RADar (NEXRAD)
 * Radar
 * Rain Gauges

GCMD Science Keywords
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > PRECIPITATION AMOUNT > 24 HOUR PRECIPITATION AMOUNT

Related links
 * info: PLOWS 2009-2010 Missions
   http://catalog.eol.ucar.edu/plows_09-10/missions/missions.html
 * info: PLOWS Data Policy
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/content/plows-data-policy-draft
 * info: PLOWS 2008-2009 Missions
   http://catalog.eol.ucar.edu/plows_08-09/missions/missions.html
 * info: PLOWS EOL Project Homepage
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/field_projects/plows

Temporal coverage
 * Begin datetime: 2009-02-06 12:00:00 
 * End datetime: 2010-03-10 12:59:59 

Spatial coverage
 * Maximum (North) Latitude: 50.00
 * Minimum (South) Latitude: 35.00
 * Minimum (West) Longitude: -115.00
 * Maximum (East) Longitude: -76.00

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

Additional contact information
 * author: National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP)
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/1304

Alternate metadata formats
 * DataCite: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/113.002?format=datacite
 * ISO/TC 211: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/113.002?format=isotc211