NOAA NSSL MRMS Bright Band Top and Bottom Heights
Summary
2-D grids of the approximate height of the top of the melting layer and 2-D grids of the approximate height of the bottom of the melting layer are contained in this dataset from the ICICLE (In-Cloud ICing and Large-drop Experiment) domain in tarred and gzipped NetCDF format. Data is sorted from top to bottom and east to west. The upper left corner is at 55 deg. N and -130 deg W. This experimental product is the first iteration and may contain some artifacts/oddities. The domain covers only the area of the ICICLE field campaign. No MRMS data are available prior to 5 February due to the federal government shutdown in early 2019.
Any public presentations/publications using this data must include NSSL as co-author.
Archive note
NOTE: This is a large dataset. Order limitations are 32GB per order, so please check file sizes when ordering.
IMPORTANT: For each order, unzip and untar the files in a separate directory with sufficient size (1-2TB) to ensure that files are not overwritten. Some of these files may untar/unzip to hundreds of Gigabytes.
Data access
- ORDER data to made available for download
- authorization required
Additional information
Temporal coverage
| Begin datetime | 2019-02-05 00:00:00 |
| End datetime | 2019-03-07 23:59:59 |
Spatial coverage
Map data from IBCSO, IBCAO, and Global Topography.
Maximum (North) Latitude:
55.00,
Minimum (South) Latitude:
20.00
Minimum (West) Longitude:
-130.00,
Maximum (East) Longitude:
-60.00
Primary point of contact information
Heather Reeves <heather.reeves@noaa.gov>
Additional contact information
Citation
Reeves, H. 2021. NOAA NSSL MRMS Bright Band Top and Bottom Heights. Version 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.26023/ZKPE-FA68-1Y0J. Accessed 24 Mar 2025.
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