Identification

Title

Manually-Digitized Radar Data for the Midwest and Eastern United States

Alternative title(s)

d840000

Abstract

The former Techniques Development Laboratory (TDL) of the U.S. National Weather Service began collecting Manually-Digitized Radar (MDR) data in November 1973 from teletype reports. The MDR data were then archived in Model Output Statistics (MOS) predictand tape format to be used for thunderstorm prediction. The data were intended for both general and severe thunderstorm prediction using MOS which related the radar data to large-scale predictors from operational numerical models. Other uses of the data included development of improved initial moisture fields in TDL numerical models and verification of convective weather forecasts. The MDR data were archived for a pseudo-grid covering roughly the eastern two-thirds of the United States. This pseudo-grid was a subset of the 47 by 51 (octagonal) polar-stereographic grid that was used for numerical weather output at the time.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/d840000/

protocol: https

applicationProfile: browser

name: Dataset Description

description: Related Link

function: information

https://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/d840000/dataaccess/

protocol: https

applicationProfile: browser

name: Data Access

description: Related Link

function: download

Unique resource identifier

code

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

WEATHER STATIONS > WEATHER STATIONS

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2024-07-23

Keyword set

keyword value

WEATHER RADARS

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2024-06-28

Keyword set

keyword value

EARTH SCIENCE > SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING > RADAR > RADAR REFLECTIVITY

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2024-07-24

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-130.0637

East bounding longitude

-60.1448

North bounding latitude

57.8226

South bounding latitude

17.9164

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

1973-11-01

End position

1977-09-05

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

1980-01-11

Frequency of update

notPlanned

Quality and validity

Lineage

Conformity

Data format

name of format

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Limitations on public access

None

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

UCAR/NCAR - Research Data Archive

full postal address

National Center for Atmospheric Research

CISL/DECS

P.O. Box 3000

Boulder

80307

U.S.A.

telephone number

(303)-497-1825

facsimile number

303-497-1291

email address

dattore@ucar.edu

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

NCAR Research Data Archive

full postal address

National Center for Atmospheric Research

CISL/DECS

P.O. Box 3000

Boulder

80307

U.S.A.

facsimile number

303-497-1291

email address

rdahelp@ucar.edu

web address

https://rda.ucar.edu/

name: NCAR Research Data Archive

description: The Research Data Archive (RDA), managed by the Data Engineering and Curation Section (DECS) of the Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) at NCAR, contains a large and diverse collection of meteorological and oceanographic observations, operational and reanalysis model outputs, and remote sensing datasets to support atmospheric and geosciences research, along with ancillary datasets, such as topography/bathymetry, vegetation, and land use.

function: downlaod

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2024-08-04T02:11:46Z

Metadata language