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SWEX: ISS Ceilometer CL51 Data Products

Summary

Vaisala C51 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 ISS2 trailer located at the Rancho Alegre site. Data are available in raw ASCII DAT format and in netCDF format. DAT files are ordered as a single compressed tar.gz file. netCDf files were created by the Vaisala BLView software. Preview plots are available.

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Additional information

Identifier	DOI: https://doi.org/10.26023/VY3V-71AR-150A
Data Quality	final
Versions	0.1 (2022-07-01) 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	other
Language	English
Categories	Upper Air
Platforms	Ceilometer, NCAR/EOL ISS
Instruments	Ceilometer
Events	DAT netcdf
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 info: Integrated Sounding System (ISS) info: SWEX Data Policy homepage: SWEX Home Page info: SWEX Missions

Temporal coverage

Begin datetime	2022-04-01 00:00:00
End datetime	2022-05-17 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 ISS Team

Citation

NSF NCAR/EOL ISS Team. 2023. SWEX: ISS Ceilometer CL51 Data Products. Version 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.26023/VY3V-71AR-150A. Accessed 25 Apr 2024.

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