MP3 University of Wisconsin SPARC Surface Meteorological Data
https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/485.116

Summary
This data set contains the 5 second resolution surface meteorological
observations taken by the PECAN Mobile PISA 3 University of Wisconsin-Madison
SSEC Portable Atmospheric Research Center (SPARC) from locations around the
Central United States during most PECAN IOP and UFO periods. The data are in a
comma-delimited ASCII format.

Identifiers
 * Local archive identifier: 485.116
 * doi:10.5065/D6N014XZ
   https://doi.org/10.5065/D6N014XZ

Versions
  1.0

Citation
 Wagner, T., et al. 2016. MP3 University of Wisconsin SPARC Surface
 Meteorological Data. Version 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory.
 https://doi.org/10.5065/D6N014XZ Accessed 20 Apr 2024.

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at CrossCite (https://citation.crosscite.org/).

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
 * Surface

Platforms
 * SSEC Portable Atmospheric Research Center (SPARC)
 * Weather Stations

Instruments
 * Anemometers
 * Automated Weather System
 * Barometers
 * Thermometers
 * Wind Vanes

Sites
 * Mobile PISA 3 - UW SPARC

GCMD Science Keywords
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > SURFACE TEMPERATURE > AIR TEMPERATURE
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE > SURFACE PRESSURE
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS > WIND SPEED
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR INDICATORS > HUMIDITY > RELATIVE HUMIDITY
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS > WIND DIRECTION

Documentation
 * sparc_sfc_readme.pdf [49 KiB]
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/file/download/52D37831E6ED9/sparc_sfc_readme.pdf

Related links
 * info: PECAN Missions
   https://catalog.eol.ucar.edu/pecan/tools/missions
 * 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

Temporal coverage
 * Begin datetime: 2015-06-02 00:00:00 
 * End datetime: 2015-07-16 23:59:59 

Spatial coverage
 * Maximum (North) Latitude: 43.20
 * Minimum (South) Latitude: 36.90
 * Minimum (West) Longitude: -100.90
 * Maximum (East) Longitude: -92.00

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

Additional contact information
 * author: Timothy J. Wagner <tim.wagner@ssec.wisc.edu>
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/2149
 * author: Erik Olson <erik.olson@ssec.wisc.edu>
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/2138
 * author: Nadia Smith <nadia.smith@ssec.wisc.edu>
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/2139
 * author: Wayne F. Feltz <wayne.feltz@ssec.wisc.edu>
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/32

Alternate metadata formats
 * DataCite: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/485.116?format=datacite
 * ISO/TC 211: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/485.116?format=isotc211