ACT-America: CPL-derived Atmospheric Boundary Layer Top Height, Eastern US, 2016-2018

Description

This dataset consists of the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) top heights and the altitudes of the two additional aerosol layers (in km above mean sea level) derived from Cloud Physics Lidar (CPL) measurements using the Haar wavelet transform method. The CPL instrument was deployed onboard NASA's C-130 aircraft to obtain aerosol backscatter profiles during four ACT-America field campaigns (Summer 2016, Winter 2017, Fall 2017, and Spring 2018). CPL is a backscatter lidar designed to operate simultaneously at three wavelengths. The profiles were collected at 4-second temporal and 30 m vertical resolutions. The time resolution of the provided CPL-derived ABL top heights and other aerosol layers are 8 seconds.

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5 https://airbornescience.nasa.gov/acepwg/content/ACE_Polarimeter_Working_Group_ACEPWG_ACEPOL_field_campaign
5 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/citing-data
21 https://doi.org/10.5067/SUBORBITAL/ACEPOL2017/AircraftRemoteSensing_CPL_Data_1
5 https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/granules?p=C1758588308-LARC_ASDC
21 index.html https://www-air.larc.nasa.gov/missions/acepol/index.html
5 https://www.nwo.nl/en/projects/alw-go16-09/
5 https://gmao.gsfc.nasa.gov/field_campaigns/ACEPOL/
5 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/soot/power-user/ACEPOL/2017
5 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/project/ACEPOL/pdocuments
5 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/data/ACEPOL/AircraftRemoteSensing_CPL_Data_1/
21 contents.html https://opendap.larc.nasa.gov/opendap/ACEPOL/AircraftRemoteSensing_CPL_Data_1/contents.html
5 https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov%2Fsearch%3Fq%3DCPL_ABL_Top_Height_1825%26ac%3Dtrue
5 https://daac.ornl.gov%2FACTAMERICA%2Fguides%2FCPL_ABL_Top_Height.html
5 https://doi.org%2F10.3334%2FORNLDAAC%2F1825
5 https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov%2Fprotected%2Fbundle%2FCPL_ABL_Top_Height_1825.zip
5 https://daac.ornl.gov%2FACTAMERICA%2Fguides%2FCPL_ABL_Top_Height_Fig1.png
5 https://actamerica.ornl.gov%2F
5 https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov%2Fpublic%2Factamerica%2FCPL_ABL_Top_Height%2Fcomp%2FWinter2017_annotated.pdf
5 https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov%2Fpublic%2Factamerica%2FCPL_ABL_Top_Height%2Fcomp%2FCPL_ABL_Top_Height.pdf
5 https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov%2Fpublic%2Factamerica%2FCPL_ABL_Top_Height%2Fcomp%2FSpring2018_annotated.pdf
5 https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov%2Fpublic%2Factamerica%2FCPL_ABL_Top_Height%2Fcomp%2FSummer2016_annotated.pdf
5 https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov%2Fpublic%2Factamerica%2FCPL_ABL_Top_Height%2Fcomp%2FFall2017_annotated.pdf
5 https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=CPL_ABL_Top_Height_1825&ac=true
21 https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1825
57 CPL_ABL_Top_Height_1825.zip https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/protected/bundle/CPL_ABL_Top_Height_1825.zip
34 CPL_ABL_Top_Height_Fig1.png https://daac.ornl.gov/ACTAMERICA/guides/CPL_ABL_Top_Height_Fig1.png
5 https://actamerica.ornl.gov/
33 Winter2017_annotated.pdf https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/actamerica/CPL_ABL_Top_Height/comp/Winter2017_annotated.pdf
33 CPL_ABL_Top_Height.pdf https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/actamerica/CPL_ABL_Top_Height/comp/CPL_ABL_Top_Height.pdf
33 Spring2018_annotated.pdf https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/actamerica/CPL_ABL_Top_Height/comp/Spring2018_annotated.pdf
33 Fall2017_annotated.pdf https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/actamerica/CPL_ABL_Top_Height/comp/Fall2017_annotated.pdf
33 Summer2016_annotated.pdf https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/actamerica/CPL_ABL_Top_Height/comp/Summer2016_annotated.pdf
5 https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=CPL_ABL_Top_Height_1825&ac=true
21 https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1825
57 CPL_ABL_Top_Height_1825.zip https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/protected/bundle/CPL_ABL_Top_Height_1825.zip
34 CPL_ABL_Top_Height_Fig1.png https://daac.ornl.gov/ACTAMERICA/guides/CPL_ABL_Top_Height_Fig1.png
5 https://actamerica.ornl.gov/
33 Winter2017_annotated.pdf https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/actamerica/CPL_ABL_Top_Height/comp/Winter2017_annotated.pdf
33 CPL_ABL_Top_Height.pdf https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/actamerica/CPL_ABL_Top_Height/comp/CPL_ABL_Top_Height.pdf
33 Spring2018_annotated.pdf https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/actamerica/CPL_ABL_Top_Height/comp/Spring2018_annotated.pdf
33 Fall2017_annotated.pdf https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/actamerica/CPL_ABL_Top_Height/comp/Fall2017_annotated.pdf
33 Summer2016_annotated.pdf https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/actamerica/CPL_ABL_Top_Height/comp/Summer2016_annotated.pdf
0 The metadata's original source. https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C2677226029-ORNL_CLOUD.iso19115

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