METCRAX ISS 915 MHz Wind Profiler and RASS Data

The Meteor Crater Experiment (METCRAX) is a 3-year meteorological research program supported by the Mesoscale Dynamics Division of the U. S. National Science Foundation (NSF). The program is investigating the structure and evolution of temperature inversions or cold-air pools that form on a daily basis in topographic basins and valleys. As part of this research a one-month-long field experiment will be conducted in October 2006 in Arizona's Meteor Crater, a simple near-ideal topographic basin formed by the impact of a meteor. In this basin, the physical processes leading to the buildup and breakdown of temperature inversions and the formation of atmospheric seiches (atmospheric oscillations in the basin caused by wind disturbances at the basin crest) can be studied without the complications introduced by more complex topography. This dataset contains 915 MHz wind profiler data collected by the NCAR/EOL Integrated Sounding System (ISS) during METCRAX between 01 October 2006 and 31 October 2006. This dataset includes doppler moments data (.mom.nc), consensus winds data (.winds*.nc), and Radio Acoustic Sounding System (RASS) virtual temperatures (.rass.nc) in NetCDF format. These data are tarred into daily files and have been quality controlled.

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  2006-10-01T00:00:00Z
    End:  2006-10-31T23:59:59Z

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Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 2006-10-01T00:00:00Z
Temporal Range End 2006-10-31T23:59:59Z
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat 35.20000
Bounding Box South Lat 35.20000
Bounding Box West Long -111.20000
Bounding Box East Long -111.20000
Spatial Representation N/A
Spatial Resolution N/A
Related Links N/A
Additional Information N/A
Resource Format TAR: Unix Tape ARchive (TAR) Format File (application/x-tar)
Standardized Resource Format Archive
Asset Size 211 MB
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Resource Support Email datahelp@eol.ucar.edu
Resource Support Organization UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory
Distributor UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory
Metadata Contact Name EOL Data Support
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Author UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory
Publisher UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory
Publication Date 2016-06-06T20:25:44
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.5065/D628060S
Alternate Identifier 158.004
Resource Version 1.0
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2024-02-07T22:42:53Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.eol::158.004
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory. (2016). METCRAX ISS 915 MHz Wind Profiler and RASS Data. 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.5065/D628060S. Accessed 28 March 2024.

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