NASA/DC-8 Differential Absorption Lidar (DIAL) Measuring Tropospheric Ozone
Profiles and High Spectral Resolution Lidar (HSRL) Data
https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/353.116

Summary
This data set contains NASA/DC-8 Differential Absorption Lidar (DIAL)
Measuring Tropospheric Ozone Profiles and High Spectral Resolution Lidar
(HSRL) Data collected during the Deep Convective Clouds and Chemistry
Experiment (DC3) from 14 May 2012 through 22 June 2012. This data set contains
Hierarchical Data Format (h5) files and one file in ICARTT format. Please see
the header portion of the ICARTT data file (orderable as TF03) for details on
instruments, parameters, quality assurance, quality control, contact
information, and data set comments.

Identifiers
 * Local archive identifier: 353.116

Citation
Example citation following ESIP guidelines (http://bit.ly/data_citation):

 Hair, J., Langley Research Center (LaRC), NASA. 2013. NASA/DC-8 Differential
 Absorption Lidar (DIAL) Measuring Tropospheric Ozone Profiles and High
 Spectral Resolution Lidar (HSRL) Data. Version 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth
 Observing Laboratory. https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/353.116 Accessed 26
 Jun 2022.

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 eol-datahelp@ucar.edu
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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
 * DC3: Deep Convective Clouds & Chemistry Project
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project/DC3

Additional information
 * Spatial Type: point
 * Frequency: continuous
 * Language: English

Categories
 * Aircraft

Platforms
 * Aircraft, NASA DC-8

Instruments
 * Differential Absorption Lidar - DIAL
 * High Spectral Resolution Lidar - HSRL
 * Lidar

GCMD Science Keywords
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE MEASUREMENTS
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY > OXYGEN COMPOUNDS > ATMOSPHERIC OZONE
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > AEROSOLS > AEROSOL BACKSCATTER
 * EARTH SCIENCE > SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING > LIDAR > LIDAR DEPOLARIZATION RATIO
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > UPPER AIR TEMPERATURE

Documentation
 * DC8_Handbook-1.pdf [1099 KiB]
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/datafile/nph-get/353.116/DC8_Handbook-1.pdf

Related links
 * info: DC3 Missions
   http://catalog.eol.ucar.edu/dc3_2012/missions/missions.html

Temporal coverage
 * Begin datetime: 2012-05-14 00:00:00 
 * End datetime: 2012-06-22 23:59:59 

Spatial coverage
 * Maximum (North) Latitude: 42.06574
 * Minimum (South) Latitude: 24.96023
 * Minimum (West) Longitude: -106.76535
 * Maximum (East) Longitude: -84.94339

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

Additional contact information
 * author: Johnathan W. Hair <Johnathan.W.Hair@nasa.gov>
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/1487
 * author: Langley Research Center (LaRC), NASA
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/964

Alternate metadata formats
 * DataCite: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/353.116?format=datacite
 * ISO/TC 211: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/353.116?format=isotc211