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SWEX: ISS Ceilometer CL31 Data Products

Summary

Vaisala C31 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 ISS3 trailer located at the Sedgwick site. Data are in daily raw DAT and netCDf format. DAT files are ordered as a single compressed tar.gz file. Included are text files that contain MLH (Mixed Layer Height) information. These files are ordered as a single compressed tar.fz file. Preview plots are available.

Data access

ORDER data to made available for download
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Additional information

Identifier	DOI: https://doi.org/10.26023/RB11-0HZ1-QV0F
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
Language	English
Categories	Upper Air
Platforms	Ceilometer, NCAR/EOL ISS
Instruments	Ceilometer
Events	DAT mlh netcdf
GCMD Science Keywords	AEROSOL BACKSCATTER CLOUD BASE HEIGHT CLOUD CEILING CLOUD HEIGHT LIDAR BACKSCATTER 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	2022-04-01 00:00:00
End datetime	2022-05-18 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 CL31 Data Products. Version 1.0. null. https://doi.org/10.26023/RB11-0HZ1-QV0F. Accessed 13 Nov 2025.

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