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ORCAS: Low Rate (LRT - 1 sps) Navigation, State Parameter, and Microphysics Flight-Level Data

Summary

This data set includes airborne measurements obtained from the NSF/NCAR HIAPER GV aircraft (Tail Number N677F) during the ORCAS (The O2/N2 Ratio and CO2 Airborne Southern Ocean Study) project. This dataset contains low rate navigation, state parameter, and microphysics flight-level data in netCDF format. 

Note: Due to a timeserver problem, there is no data available for RF12, and the data for RF13 is only available for the second half of the flight.

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Data Quality final
Versions
  • 0.1 (2016-02-22)
  • 0.2 (2016-05-26):

    New files for all flights (include TF) with 2DC vars instead of 1DC


  • 1.0 (2016-11-07):

    Includes Ht above terrain post-processing

  • 1.1 (2018-10-16):

    Version 1.1 has corrected 2DC data (variables CONC2DCA_LWO, DBAR2DCA_LWO, and PLWC2DCA_LWO). No other data has been changed.

    It was discovered that all particles in a single buffer were time-stamped with the data-system time tag of the end off the buffer. For concentrations above 5-10/L, or when in heavy cloud, the system writes multiple buffers per second so the time-stamp will be very close to accurate. When a buffer spans multiple seconds, all the particles were previously binned to the second of the end time-stamp for the buffer. This has now been corrected so data is timestamped across the time-period of the buffer correctly.

    In addition, V1.1 changes 2D processing from reconstruction to center-in.

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Frequency 1 second
Language English
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Temporal coverage

Begin datetime 2016-01-05 18:11:55
End datetime 2016-03-01 22:45:00

Spatial coverage


Map data from IBCSO, IBCAO, and Global Topography.

Maximum (North) Latitude: -30.00, Minimum (South) Latitude: -80.00
Minimum (West) Longitude: -105.00, Maximum (East) Longitude: -30.00

Primary point of contact information

EOL Data Support <datahelp@eol.ucar.edu>

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Citation

UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory. 2018. ORCAS: Low Rate (LRT - 1 sps) Navigation, State Parameter, and Microphysics Flight-Level Data. Version 1.1. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.5065/D65T3HWR. Accessed 11 Sep 2024.

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