Dodge City UMBC Ceilometer (Version 2)
https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/485.038

Summary
This data set contains the backscatter profiles and cloud base height
observations from the UMBC Vaisala CL31 Ceilometer that was located at the
Dodge City, Kansas National Weather Service office during PECAN. These data
are in netCDF format. Version 1 of this data set had incorrect values written
into the "background_light" variable. Version 2 corrected this problem and was
released 1 February 2016.

Identifiers
 * Local archive identifier: 485.038
 * doi:10.5065/D63J3B13
   https://doi.org/10.5065/D63J3B13

Versions
  1.0
  2.0: Version 1 of this data set had incorrect values written into the
"background_light" variable. Version 2 corrected this problem and was
released 1 February 2016.

Citation
 Vermeesch, K. 2016. Dodge City UMBC Ceilometer. Version 2.0. UCAR/NCAR -
 Earth Observing Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.5065/D63J3B13 Accessed 24 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: < 1 minute
 * Language: English

Categories
 * Lidar
 * Upper Air

Platforms
 * Fixed Observation Stations

Instruments
 * Ceilometers

GCMD Science Keywords
 * EARTH SCIENCE > SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING > LIDAR > LIDAR BACKSCATTER
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD PROPERTIES > CLOUD BASE HEIGHT

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

Temporal coverage
 * Begin datetime: 2015-05-31 00:00:00 
 * End datetime: 2015-07-12 23:59:59 

Spatial coverage
 * Maximum (North) Latitude: 37.76142
 * Minimum (South) Latitude: 37.76142
 * Minimum (West) Longitude: -99.96926
 * Maximum (East) Longitude: -99.96926

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

Additional contact information
 * author: Kevin Vermeesch <kvermees@umbc.edu>
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/2025

Alternate metadata formats
 * DataCite: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/485.038?format=datacite
 * ISO/TC 211: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/485.038?format=isotc211