SUNY Albany Ceilometer Data - Gaviota Site
https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/600.036

Summary
CT12K ceilometer data reports aerosol backscatter intensity and cloud base, up
to 12000 feet, collected at the Gaviota Site by the Atmospheric Sciences
Research Center (ASRC) at SUNY Albany during SWEX (Sundowner Winds Experiment)
field campaign from 20 April through 16 May 2022.

Identifiers
 * Local archive identifier: 600.036
 * doi:10.26023/WGP2-VG9D-9J0X
   https://doi.org/10.26023/WGP2-VG9D-9J0X

Versions
  1.0

Citation
 UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory, Fitzjarrald, D. 2024. SWEX: SUNY
 Albany Ceilometer Data - Gaviota Site. Version 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth
 Observing Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.26023/WGP2-VG9D-9J0X Accessed 22 Dec
 2024.

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Acknowledgement
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please acknowledge NSF NCAR EOL in your publications with text such as:

  Data provided by NCAR EOL under the sponsorship of
  the National Science Foundation.
  https://data.eol.ucar.edu/

Related projects
 * SWEX: Sundowner Winds Experiment
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project/SWEX

Additional information
 * Spatial Type: point
 * Frequency: < 1 minute
 * Language: English

Platforms
 * Fixed Observation Stations

Instruments
 * Ceilometers

GCMD Science Keywords
 * EARTH SCIENCE > SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING > LIDAR > LIDAR BACKSCATTER
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > AEROSOLS > AEROSOL BACKSCATTER
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD PROPERTIES > CLOUD BASE HEIGHT

Documentation
 * SWEX_Dataset_Documentation_Gaviota_ceilometer_Gaviota_manual.pdf [2 MiB]
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/file/download/55840E761BD65/SWEX_Dataset_Documentation_Gaviota_ceilometer_Gaviota_manual.pdf

Related links
 * info: Vaisala CT12K ceilometer manual
   https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1- d&q=Vaisala+CT12K+ceilometer+manual

Temporal coverage
 * Begin datetime: 2022-04-20 00:00:00 
 * End datetime: 2022-05-16 23:59:59 

Spatial coverage
 * Maximum (North) Latitude: 34.47655
 * Minimum (South) Latitude: 34.47655
 * Minimum (West) Longitude: -120.21446
 * Maximum (East) Longitude: -120.21446

Primary contact information
 * pointOfContact: EOL Data Support <datahelp@eol.ucar.edu>
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/1

Additional contact information
 * pointOfContact: David R. Fitzjarrald <dfitzjarrald@albany.edu>
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/5145

Alternate metadata formats
 * DataCite: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/600.036?format=datacite
 * ISO/TC 211: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/600.036?format=isotc211