GPM GROUND VALIDATION UND CITATION NAVIGATION DATA MC3E V1

Description

The GPM Ground Validation UND Citation Navigation Data MC3E dataset was collected by the Cessna Citation II Research aircraft owned and operated by the University of North Dakota (UND) participated in the Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment (MC3E) supplying navigation data and also carrying cloud microphysics instruments. This navigation dataset consists of files (.txt) from UND containing records with flight time (UT seconds from midnight) and aircraft latitude, longitude and altitude. The dataset also contains the IWG1 data collected during the mission. Data was collected from April 1, 2011 through June 2, 2011.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 The home page for the project or program which sponsored the dataset https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/field-campaigns/mc3e
21 N/A https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/gpmValidation/mc3e/flight_tracks_summaries/data/
21 Instructions for citing GHRC data https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/about-ghrc/citing-ghrc-daac-data
21 GPM Mission Concept http://pmm.nasa.gov/GPM
33 Citation MC3E Data Quality As of June 27, 2011 https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/doc/gpmgv/mc3e/gpmnavcitmc3e/Data_Quality_Overview_Citation_MC3E.pdf
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FGPMGV%2FMC3E%2FNAV%2FDATA102
21 Files may be downloaded directly to your workstation from this link https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=gpmnavcitmc3e
21 MC3E Field Campaign Collection DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/MC3E/DATA101
21 The guide document contains detailed information about the dataset http://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/uso/ds_docs/gpmgv/mc3e/gpmnavcitmc3e/gpmnavcitmc3e_dataset.html

Tags

  • atmosphere
  • spectral-engineering
  • platform-characteristics
  • radar
  • atmospheric-pressure
  • atmospheric-winds
  • earth-science

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