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WCR L2 Up-Down Merged with Vertical Velocity Estimate Improved using Sounding Winds

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Summary

This dataset contains 24 IOPs (23 Research Flights - IOP 18 had no flights) worth of data obtained from the Wyoming Cloud Radar (WCR) aboard the UWKA Research Aircraft. The data is considered an analysis product rather than the standard WCR data offering due to an additional field (w_corrected) that has been appended to the standard Level 2 (L2) file. This analysis is only being offered with the L2 merged (up-down antennas) product. The w_corrected field employs a sounding correction to produce an estimate of the hydrometeor vertical velocity field from the WCR along level flight legs.  The sounding name/time and w_corr field descriptors have been included as attributes to the .nc (netCDF) files. In general, the IPC Crouch Sounding from the SNOWIE project was employed to correct the w field. This is a single sounding closest to the center flight time for each RF in SNOWIE, at a location closest to the UWKA flight tracks in SNOWIE (Crouch). These data are available as tar.gz files by flight.

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Data Quality final
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  • 1.0 (2017-06-26)
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Temporal coverage

Begin datetime 2017-01-08 00:00:00
End datetime 2017-03-16 23:59:59

Spatial coverage


Map data from IBCSO, IBCAO, and Global Topography.

Maximum (North) Latitude: 50.00, Minimum (South) Latitude: 40.00
Minimum (West) Longitude: -125.00, Maximum (East) Longitude: -105.00

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Citation

Geerts, B., Tripp, A. 2017. WCR L2 Up-Down Merged with Vertical Velocity Estimate Improved using Sounding Winds. Version 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.5065/D69C6W3W. Accessed 08 Nov 2024.

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This material is based upon work supported by the NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, a major facility sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation and managed by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. National Science Foundation.