Identification

Title

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

Alternative title(s)

534.003

Abstract

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.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://data.eol.ucar.edu//dataset/534.003

protocol: https

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

description: Dataset homepage

https://data.eol.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/codiac/fgr_form/id=534.003

protocol: https

name: WCR L2 Up-Down Merged with Vertical Velocity Estimate Improved using Sounding Winds Data Order Form

description: Dataset order request form. Data files are made available via FTP.

function: order

Unique resource identifier

code

534.003

codeSpace

Dataset language

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

dataset

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2014-10-16

Keyword set

keyword value

University of Wyoming King Air

Keyword set

keyword value

Radar

Aircraft

Keyword set

keyword value

EARTH SCIENCE > SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING > RADAR > DOPPLER VELOCITY

EARTH SCIENCE > SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING > RADAR > MEAN RADIAL VELOCITY

EARTH SCIENCE > SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING > RADAR > RADAR REFLECTIVITY

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2018-02-27

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-125.00000

East bounding longitude

-105.00000

North bounding latitude

50.00000

South bounding latitude

40.00000

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2017-01-08T00:00:00Z

End position

2017-03-16T23:59:59Z

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2017-06-26T18:37:53Z

Frequency of update

Quality and validity

Lineage

Conformity

Data format

name of format

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

none

Limitations on public access

none

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

contact position

EOL Data Support

organisation name

UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory

full postal address

PO Box 3000

Boulder

80307-3000

email address

datahelp@eol.ucar.edu

web address

https://data.eol.ucar.edu/

name: homepage

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Responsible party

contact position

EOL Data Support

organisation name

UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory

full postal address

PO Box 3000

Boulder

80307-3000

email address

datahelp@eol.ucar.edu

web address

https://data.eol.ucar.edu/

name: homepage

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

contact position

EOL Data Support

organisation name

UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory

full postal address

PO Box 3000

Boulder

80307-3000

email address

datahelp@eol.ucar.edu

web address

https://data.eol.ucar.edu/

name: homepage

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2024-02-07T22:43:19Z

Metadata language