edu.ucar.opensky::technotes:178 UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact 2025-12-26T16:45:21.853712 ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data ISO 19115-2:2009(E) https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d79886dk ELDORA Data User's Guide for TOGA COARE 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z publication https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d79886dk https://doi.org/10.5065/D6RR1W65 Hildebrand, P. author Rilling, Robert A. author Oye, R. author UCAR/NCAR - Library publisher The purpose of this technical note is to provide a concise User's Guide for the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) ELectra DOppler RAdar (ELDORA) data collected during the Tropical Ocean and Global Atmosphere Program Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment (TOGA COARE). This guide includes 1) a description of the radar system configuration, 2) characteristics of the sampling strategy, and 3) the ELDORA operations in TOGA COARE. The major portion of this User's Guide discusses the corrections applied to the data, the ELDORA data formats available, the data processing steps used, analysis routines available, and the means of obtaining data. Instructions for obtaining additional information are provided, including how to obtain assistance and how to access on-line documents concerning updates to data and/or calibrations. The appendices present a brief description of the data format and a summary of the coordinate transformation matrix. UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact PDF Text theme Resource Type 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z publication Sensor characteristics Radar Data management/data handling theme U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Global Change Master Directory GCMD 2021-09-17 revision 11.2 NASA Global Change Master Directory originator Valids List: Science and Services Keywords Copyright Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. None eng geoscientificInformation