NCRFC WSR-88D Stage III Hourly Precipitation Imagery
https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/17.027

Summary
This data set contains data from the NOAA North Central River Forecast Center
(NCRFC). The NCRFC routinely ingests WSR-88D precipitation derived products
(Level III) from each of the radar sites with coverage in the Upper
Mississippi River Basin. In addition the NCRFC ingests real-time precipitation
data from several hundred gages. The NCRFC produces a number of derived or
"Stage" products using the radar and precipitation gage data. A Stage II
product is produced by merging radar precipitation estimates (Stage I) with
ground truth data provided by the gages. The Stage II estimates are then
composited into a Stage III precipitation 4 x 4 km resolution area averaged
mosaic for the Upper Mississippi River Basin.

Identifiers
 * Local archive identifier: 17.027
 * doi:10.26023/635T-AKQ5-5W0V
   https://doi.org/10.26023/635T-AKQ5-5W0V

Versions
  1.0

Citation
 North Central River Forecast Center, North Central River Forecast Center.
 1999. GCIP/ESOP-97: NCRFC WSR-88D Stage III Hourly Precipitation Imagery.
 Version 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory.
 https://doi.org/10.26023/635T-AKQ5-5W0V Accessed 18 Apr 2024.

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Acknowledgement
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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
 * GCIP/ESOP-97: GCIP Large Scale Area-North Central ESOP-97
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project?GCIP%2FESOP-97

Additional information
 * Spatial Type: raster
 * Frequency: hourly
 * Language: English

Categories
 * Radar

Platforms
 * Fixed Observation Stations

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

GCMD Science Keywords
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > PRECIPITATION AMOUNT > HOURLY PRECIPITATION AMOUNT

Documentation
 * ncrfc_hourly.txt [3 KiB]
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/file/download/372B127/ncrfc_hourly.txt

Related links
 * homepage: North Central River Forecast Center
   http://www.crh.noaa.gov/ncrfc/
 * homepage: GCIP/ESOP 97 EOL Homepage
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/field_projects/gcipesop-97
 * info: GCIP Data Plans and Reports
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/content/gcip-data-plans-and-reports
 * homepage: GCIP EOL Homepage
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/field_projects/gcip

Temporal coverage
 * Begin datetime: 1997-02-05 00:00:00 
 * End datetime: 1997-05-31 23:59:59 

Spatial coverage
 * Maximum (North) Latitude: 50.00
 * Minimum (South) Latitude: 37.00
 * Minimum (West) Longitude: -99.00
 * Maximum (East) Longitude: -85.00

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

Additional contact information
 * originator: North Central River Forecast Center
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/549
 * author: North Central River Forecast Center
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/549

Alternate metadata formats
 * DataCite: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/17.027?format=datacite
 * ISO/TC 211: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/17.027?format=isotc211