Contact Info:
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Investigator(s):
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Fan Mei
Jennifer Comstock
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Data Format: |
ascii (ICARTT format: http://www-air.larc.nasa.gov/missions/etc/ESDS-RFC-019-v1.1_0.pdf)
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File Naming Convention:
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(See ICARTT pdf file link above.)
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Directory Organization:
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(See ICARTT pdf file link above.)
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Abstract:
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The 2DS probe is manufactured by SPEC Inc. (http://www.specinc.com) and measures cloud particle size distribution from 25.0 to 3000 m using an optical imaging technique. Two orthogonal laser beams are designed to sample the same volume and produce shadowgraph images with 10 m pixel resolution using 128-photodiode linear arrays. The sample volume is 16 L/s at 100 m/s. Vendor supplied software is used to process the images and retrieve the particle size distributions. A detailed description of the 2DS probe specifications is available in the literature (Lawson et al. 2006) and in the instrument installation and data processing manuals (http://www.specinc.com). The option used to process the data was Archive_multi_ice_ascii and the M1 output is archived. See data processing manual for details.
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Purpose:
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Data were collected in order to help understand the cloud droplet size distribution or the properties of large particles.
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Site Information:
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Sites |
North |
West |
South |
East |
S3: Manaus, Amazonia, Brazil; AAF
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-3.09722
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-59.9867
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-3.09722
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-59.9867
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Content Time Range:
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Begin:
2014.02.15
End:
2014.10.15
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Instrument(s):
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High Volume Precipitation Spectrometer-3 (HVPS-3)
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Field Campaign Type:
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Observations and Modeling of the Green Ocean Amazon Aerial Campaign
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Scientific Measurements(s):
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Measurement name |
Variables |
Cloud droplet size distribution and total number concentration
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Stratum Keyword(s): |
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Data Quality: |
Attribute Accuracy:
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No formal attribute accuracy tests were conducted
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Positional Accuracy:
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No formal positional accuracy tests were conducted
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Consistency and Completeness Report:
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Data set is considered complete for the information presented, as described in the abstract.Users are advised to read the rest of the metadata record carefully for addtional details.
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Access Restriction:
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No access constraints are associated with this data.
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Use Restrictions:
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No use constraints are associated with this data.
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Distribution Info:
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Organization Name: |
ARM Archive User Services |
Email:
armarchive[at]ornl.gov |
Phone:
1-888-ARM-DATA |
Street:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
City:
Oak Ridge |
State:
Tennessee |
Postal:
37831-6290 |
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Additional Missing Info:
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See additional README documentation file in directory.
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