Dodge City UMBC Ceilometer (Version 2)

This data set contains the backscatter profiles and cloud base height observations from the UMBC Vaisala CL31 Ceilometer that was located at the Dodge City, Kansas National Weather Service office during PECAN. These data are in netCDF format. Version 1 of this data set had incorrect values written into the "background_light" variable. Version 2 corrected this problem and was released 1 February 2016.

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  2015-05-31T00:00:00Z
    End:  2015-07-12T23:59:59Z

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Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 2015-05-31T00:00:00Z
Temporal Range End 2015-07-12T23:59:59Z
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat 37.76142
Bounding Box South Lat 37.76142
Bounding Box West Long -99.96926
Bounding Box East Long -99.96926
Spatial Representation grid
Spatial Resolution N/A
Related Links N/A
Additional Information N/A
Resource Format NetCDF: Network Common Data Form (application/x-netcdf)
PNG: Portable Network Graphics (PNG) (image/png)
Standardized Resource Format NetCDF
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Asset Size 725 MB
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Author Kevin Vermeesch
Publisher N/A
Publication Date 2016-02-01T16:55:52
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.5065/D63J3B13
Alternate Identifier 485.038
Resource Version 2.0
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2025-10-07T21:43:39Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.eol::485.038
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation Kevin Vermeesch. (2016). Dodge City UMBC Ceilometer (Version 2). 2.0. https://doi.org/10.5065/D63J3B13. Accessed 29 October 2025.

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