NCAR Water Vapor DIAL data
https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/485.009

Summary
NCAR/EOL Water Vapor DIAL system data taken during the Plains Elevated
Convection at Night (PECAN) project from 26 May 2015 to 16 July 2015. The data
are available in netCDF format as daily files.

Identifiers
 * Local archive identifier: 485.009
 * doi:10.5065/D6SJ1HR1
   https://doi.org/10.5065/D6SJ1HR1

Versions
  1.0
  2.0: This dataset includes new variables and the files are somewhat larger.

Citation
 NCAR/EOL MPD Team. 2016. PECAN: NCAR Water Vapor DIAL data. Version 2.0.
 UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.5065/D6SJ1HR1
 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
 * PECAN: Plains Elevated Convection at Night
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project/PECAN

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

Categories
 * Lidar
 * Upper Air

Platforms
 * NCAR MicroPulse DIAL (MPD)

Instruments
 * Differential Absorption Lidar - DIAL
 * Lidar
 * NCAR MPD1

Sites
 * Fixed PISA 3 - Ellis, KS

GCMD Science Keywords
 * EARTH SCIENCE > SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING > LIDAR > LIDAR BACKSCATTER
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD RADIATIVE TRANSFER > SCATTERING
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR INDICATORS > HUMIDITY
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR PROFILES
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD PROPERTIES
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR INDICATORS > HUMIDITY > ABSOLUTE HUMIDITY
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD RADIATIVE TRANSFER > ABSORPTION
 * EARTH SCIENCE > SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING > LIDAR
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD MICROPHYSICS
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR PROFILES > WATER VAPOR CONCENTRATION PROFILES
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR INDICATORS > WATER VAPOR

Documentation
 * Spuler_et_al.2015.pdf [4 MiB]
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/file/download/52413E305EFC5/Spuler_et_al.2015.pdf

Related links
 * homepage: PECAN Home Page
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/field_projects/pecan
 * info: PECAN Data Policy
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/content/pecan-data-policy
 * info: PECAN Missions
   https://catalog.eol.ucar.edu/pecan/tools/missions

Temporal coverage
 * Begin datetime: 2015-05-26 00:00:00 
 * End datetime: 2015-07-16 23:59:59 

Spatial coverage
 * Maximum (North) Latitude: 43.00
 * Minimum (South) Latitude: 32.00
 * Minimum (West) Longitude: -105.00
 * Maximum (East) Longitude: -90.00

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

Additional contact information
 * author: NCAR/EOL MPD Team
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/3161

Alternate metadata formats
 * DataCite: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/485.009?format=datacite
 * ISO/TC 211: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/485.009?format=isotc211