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SWEX: ISS Ceilometer CL61 Data Products

Summary

Vaisala C61 ceilometer data products collected by the EOL/Integrated Sounding System group during the Sundowner Wind EXperiment (SWEX) field campaign in Santa Barbara, CA. The instrument was mounted on the ISS1 trailer located in the Santa Barbara Fire Depertment Headquarters. Data files are in daily netCDF format. Preview plots are available.

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Identifier	DOI: https://doi.org/10.26023/AP30-C79D-6T0G
Data Quality	final
Versions	0.1 (2022-06-27) 1.0 (2023-03-14) (Only the current version of the data is available to order. If you have questions about a prior version, please email us.)
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Related projects	SWEX: Sundowner Winds Experiment
Frequency	5 second
Language	English
Categories	Upper Air
Platforms	Ceilometer, NCAR/EOL ISS
Instruments	Ceilometer
GCMD Science Keywords	AEROSOL BACKSCATTER CLOUD BASE HEIGHT CLOUD CEILING CLOUD HEIGHT LIDAR BACKSCATTER PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYER HEIGHT PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYER HEIGHT VISIBILITY Expand keywords
Documentation	SWEX_ISS_Ceilometer_Data-Report.pdf [18 MiB]
Related links	info: ISS Operations at SWEX homepage: Integrated Sounding System info: SWEX Data Policy homepage: SWEX Home Page info: SWEX Missions

Temporal coverage

Begin datetime	2022-04-02 00:00:00
End datetime	2022-05-15 23:59:59

Spatial coverage

Map data from IBCSO, IBCAO, and Global Topography.

Maximum (North) Latitude: 37.00, Minimum (South) Latitude: 31.00
Minimum (West) Longitude: -122.00, Maximum (East) Longitude: -116.00

Primary point of contact information

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

Additional contact information

pointOfContact: William Brown <wbrown@ucar.edu>
author: NSF NCAR/EOL Integrated Sounding System Team

Citation

NSF NCAR/EOL Integrated Sounding System Team. 2023. SWEX: ISS Ceilometer CL61 Data Products. Version 1.0. null. https://doi.org/10.26023/AP30-C79D-6T0G. Accessed 14 Feb 2026.

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