WCR L2 Up-Down Merged with Vertical Velocity Estimate Improved using Sounding Winds

This dataset contains 24 IOPs (23 Research Flights - IOP 18 had no flights) worth of data obtained from the Wyoming Cloud Radar (WCR) aboard the UWKA Research Aircraft. The data is considered an analysis product rather than the standard WCR data offering due to an additional field (w_corrected) that has been appended to the standard Level 2 (L2) file. This analysis is only being offered with the L2 merged (up-down antennas) product. The w_corrected field employs a sounding correction to produce an estimate of the hydrometeor vertical velocity field from the WCR along level flight legs. The sounding name/time and w_corr field descriptors have been included as attributes to the .nc (netCDF) files. In general, the IPC Crouch Sounding from the SNOWIE project was employed to correct the w field. This is a single sounding closest to the center flight time for each RF in SNOWIE, at a location closest to the UWKA flight tracks in SNOWIE (Crouch). These data are available as tar.gz files by flight.

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  2017-01-08T00:00:00Z
    End:  2017-03-16T23:59:59Z

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Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 2017-01-08T00:00:00Z
Temporal Range End 2017-03-16T23:59:59Z
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat 50.00000
Bounding Box South Lat 40.00000
Bounding Box West Long -125.00000
Bounding Box East Long -105.00000
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Documentation #1 : W-CORRECTED_WCR_L2_README.txt

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Resource Format TAR/GNU Zip (.tar.gz/.tgz) (application/x-gzip)
Standardized Resource Format Archive
Asset Size 1260 MB
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Author Bart Geerts
Adam Tripp
Publisher UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory
Publication Date 2017-06-26T18:37:53
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.5065/D69C6W3W
Alternate Identifier 534.003
Resource Version 1.0
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2024-02-07T22:43:19Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.eol::534.003
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation Bart Geerts, Adam Tripp. (2017). WCR L2 Up-Down Merged with Vertical Velocity Estimate Improved using Sounding Winds. 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.5065/D69C6W3W. Accessed 27 November 2024.

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