NOAA NSSL MRMS Gridded SBC Data and SBC Profiles
Summary
Vertical profiles of the hydrometeor phase diagnosis along the particle size distribution are contained in this dataset from commercial airports in the ICICLE (In-Cloud ICing and Large-drop Experiment) domain in tarred and gzipped NetCDF format. This experimental product is the first iteration and may contain some artifacts/oddities. This version of the SBC uses a different method to assign ptop than the horizontal diagnoses (provided separately) and therefore may not agree with that analysis.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 | 2019-02-06 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 Gridded SBC Data and SBC Profiles. Version 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.26023/Q4YD-X7E3-VS13. Accessed 22 Mar 2025.
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