METCRAX ISS 915 MHz Wind Profiler and RASS Data
https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/158.004

Summary
The Meteor Crater Experiment (METCRAX) is a 3-year meteorological research
program supported by the Mesoscale Dynamics Division of the U. S. National
Science Foundation (NSF). The program is investigating the structure and
evolution of temperature inversions or cold-air pools that form on a daily
basis in topographic basins and valleys. As part of this research a
one-month-long field experiment will be conducted in October 2006 in Arizona's
Meteor Crater, a simple near-ideal topographic basin formed by the impact of a
meteor. In this basin, the physical processes leading to the buildup and
breakdown of temperature inversions and the formation of atmospheric seiches
(atmospheric oscillations in the basin caused by wind disturbances at the
basin crest) can be studied without the complications introduced by more
complex topography. This dataset contains 915 MHz wind profiler data collected
by the NCAR/EOL Integrated Sounding System (ISS) during METCRAX between 01
October 2006 and 31 October 2006. This dataset includes doppler moments data
(.mom.nc), consensus winds data (.winds*.nc), and Radio Acoustic Sounding
System (RASS) virtual temperatures (.rass.nc) in NetCDF format. These data are
tarred into daily files and have been quality controlled.

Identifiers
 * Local archive identifier: 158.004
 * doi:10.5065/D628060S
   https://doi.org/10.5065/D628060S

Versions
  1.0

Citation
 UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory, Brown, W. 2016. METCRAX ISS 915 MHz
 Wind Profiler and RASS Data. Version 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing
 Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.5065/D628060S Accessed 18 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
 * METCRAX: Meteor Crater Experiment
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project/METCRAX

Additional information
 * Frequency: continuous
 * Language: English

Categories
 * Upper Air

Platforms
 * NCAR/EOL Integrated Sounding System - ISS

Instruments
 * Radio Acoustic Sounding System - RASS
 * Wind Profilers

GCMD Science Keywords
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > UPPER LEVEL WINDS > BOUNDARY LAYER WINDS
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > WIND PROFILES > WIND DIRECTION PROFILES
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > UPPER AIR TEMPERATURE > VIRTUAL TEMPERATURE
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > UPPER LEVEL WINDS > WIND SPEED
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > WIND DYNAMICS > VERTICAL WIND VELOCITY/SPEED
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > UPPER LEVEL WINDS > WIND DIRECTION
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > WIND PROFILES > WIND VELOCITY/SPEED PROFILES
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > UPPER AIR TEMPERATURE > BOUNDARY LAYER TEMPERATURE
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > UPPER AIR TEMPERATURE > VERTICAL PROFILES

Related links
 * info: Integrated Sounding System
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/observing_facilities/iss
 * info: ISS Data Overview
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/content/data-overview
 * homepage: METCRAX Project Homepage
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/field_projects/metcrax

Temporal coverage
 * Begin datetime: 2006-10-01 00:00:00 
 * End datetime: 2006-10-31 23:59:59 

Spatial coverage
 * Maximum (North) Latitude: 35.20
 * Minimum (South) Latitude: 35.20
 * Minimum (West) Longitude: -111.20
 * Maximum (East) Longitude: -111.20

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

Additional contact information
 * author: EOL Data Support <datahelp@eol.ucar.edu>
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/1
 * originator: William Brown <wbrown@ucar.edu>
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/597

Alternate metadata formats
 * DataCite: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/158.004?format=datacite
 * ISO/TC 211: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/158.004?format=isotc211