Cayenne French Doppler Radar RASTA Data

This dataset contains the RASTA data from the High Altitude Ice Crystals - High Ice Water Content (HAIC-HIWC) project that took place in Cayenne, French Guiana. The data is the 95 GHz cloud radar, microphysics and wind data from the French Falcon aircraft, operated by SAFIRE, during 17 of the flights flown during the project. The data is in netCDF and png formats.

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  2015-05-10T00:00:00Z
    End:  2015-05-29T23:59:59Z

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Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 2015-05-10T00:00:00Z
Temporal Range End 2015-05-29T23:59:59Z
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat 20.00000
Bounding Box South Lat 0.00000
Bounding Box West Long -70.00000
Bounding Box East Long -30.00000
Spatial Representation grid
Spatial Resolution N/A
Related Links

Documentation #1 : Micro-DYN-product-description-Jan2016.pdf
Additional Information N/A
Resource Format PNG: Portable Network Graphics (PNG) (image/png)
NetCDF: Network Common Data Form (application/x-netcdf)
Standardized Resource Format NetCDF
Image
Asset Size 4115 MB
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Publication Date 2016-06-06T19:52:38
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.26023/ME1M-EEB2-2E0Q
Alternate Identifier 486.016
Resource Version 1.0
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2025-10-07T21:45:49Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.eol::486.016
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation (2016). Cayenne French Doppler Radar RASTA Data. 1.0. https://doi.org/10.26023/ME1M-EEB2-2E0Q. Accessed 24 October 2025.

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