University of California, Riverside Single Particle Soot Photometer (SP2) Data
https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/638.025

Summary
Black carbon data including number concentrations of refractory black carbon
particles, and number concentration of scattering particles from the
University of California - Riverside Single Particle Soot Photometer (SP2)
that was deployed on the NSF NCAR C-130 aircraft for the CAESAR campaign.

No data are available for RF08 (25 Mar).

Identifiers
 * Local archive identifier: 638.025
 * doi:10.26023/RWTP-W4E0-H30B
   https://doi.org/10.26023/RWTP-W4E0-H30B

Versions
  0.1: Preliminary in-field data.
  1.0: Final processed data.

Citation
 Petters, M., Cai, L. 2025. CAESAR: University of California, Riverside Single
 Particle Soot Photometer (SP2) Data. Version 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing
 Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.26023/RWTP-W4E0-H30B Accessed 04 Apr 2025.

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Acknowledgement
In addition to the citation reference and any other acknowledgements,
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
 * CAESAR: Cold Air Outbreak Experiment in the Sub-Arctic Region
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project/CAESAR

Additional information
 * Frequency: 1 second
 * Language: English

Grant Code
NSF AGS-2150769

Platforms
 * NSF NCAR C-130

Instruments
 * SP2 - Single-Particle Soot Photometer

GCMD Science Keywords
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > AEROSOLS > AEROSOL PARTICLE PROPERTIES
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > AEROSOLS > BLACK CARBON
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > AEROSOLS > AEROSOL PARTICLE PROPERTIES > AEROSOL SIZE DISTRIBUTION
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > AEROSOLS > CARBONACEOUS AEROSOLS
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > AEROSOLS > AEROSOL PARTICLE PROPERTIES > AEROSOL CONCENTRATION

Documentation
 * Black_Carbon_Data.pdf [399 KiB]
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/file/download/5580A577F7330/Black_Carbon_Data.pdf
 * Calibration_Report_SP2_2307-116.pdf [385 KiB]
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/file/download/5580A577F7331/Calibration_Report_SP2_2307-116.pdf
 * DOC-0092-G-SP2-Software-Manual.pdf [4 MiB]
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/file/download/5580A577F7332/DOC-0092-G-SP2-Software-Manual.pdf
 * DOC-0171-H-SP2-Operator-Manual.pdf [2 MiB]
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/file/download/5580A577F7333/DOC-0171-H-SP2-Operator-Manual.pdf
 * DOC-0359_B-PSI-SP2-Toolkit-Manual.pdf [2 MiB]
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/file/download/5580A577F7334/DOC-0359_B-PSI-SP2-Toolkit-Manual.pdf
 * SP2_2307-116_Calibration_Info.xlsx [30 KiB]
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/file/download/5580A577F7335/SP2_2307-116_Calibration_Info.xlsx

Restrictions
 * authorization required

Related links
 * homepage: CAESAR EOL Homepage
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/field_projects/caesar
 * info: CAESAR Data Policy
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/node/30493
 * info: CAESAR Missions
   https://catalog.eol.ucar.edu/caesar/missions

Temporal coverage
 * Begin datetime: 2024-02-28 11:40:00 
 * End datetime: 2024-04-03 16:00:00 

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

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

Additional contact information
 * author: Markus Petters <markus.petters@ucr.edu>
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/5197
 * author: Lintong Cai <lcai031@ucr.edu>
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/4606

Alternate metadata formats
 * DataCite: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/638.025?format=datacite
 * ISO/TC 211: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/638.025?format=isotc211