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Digital Camera Movies

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Summary

During CAESAR, the NSF/NCAR C-130 (Tail Number N130AR) flew digital cameras for in-flight video capture. Individual photo jpeg images were captured once per second during flights. Images taken after dark have been stripped from this archive. Remaining images were converted to Quicktime movie files. The movies are h.264 codec playable with Quicktime (Mac and Windows), xine, (linux) and mplayer (many platforms). The original images are 1024x768 pixels and were recorded at 1 frame/second. The movies are set to play back at 512x384 pixels and 15 fps.

Animated plots are visible on the right side of the frame with the following variables:

Plot 1: GGALT timeseries  

Plot 2: PSX timeseries   

Plot 3: ATX timeseries 

Plot 4: DPXC timeseries

Plot 5: WIC timeseries

Plot 6: PLWCC timeseries  

Plot 7: CONCS_2DS timeseries  

Plot 8: CONCD_LWI timeseries

Plot 9: FO3C_ACD timeseries

Plot 10: (ATX, DPXC), GGALT 1:1  

Plot 11: GGLAT, GGLON 1:1

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Data Quality final
Versions
  • 0.1 (2024-05-20):

    default

  • 1.0 (2024-07-16):

    Aircraft movie animations

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Spatial Type video
Frequency 1 second
Language English
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Temporal coverage

Begin datetime 2024-02-05 17:06:56
End datetime 2024-04-07 23:59:59

Spatial coverage


Map data from IBCSO, IBCAO, and Global Topography.

Maximum (North) Latitude: 82.00, Minimum (South) Latitude: 66.00
Minimum (West) Longitude: -14.00, Maximum (East) Longitude: 24.00

Primary point of contact information

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

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Citation

NCAR/EOL Digital Camera Imagery Team. 2024. Digital Camera Movies. Version 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory. https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/638.018. Accessed 27 Jul 2024.

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