HURRICANE AND SEVERE STORM SENTINEL (HS3) GLOBAL HAWK CLOUD PHYSICS LIDAR (CPL) V1

Description

The Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3) Global Hawk Cloud Physics Lidar (CPL) dataset includes measurements gathered by the CPL instrument during the HS3 campaign which took place during the hurricane seasons of 2011 through 2014 in the Atlantic Ocean basin region. Goals for HS3 included: assessing the relative roles of large-scale environment and storm-scale internal processes; and addressing the controversial role of the Saharan Air Layer (SAL) in tropical storm formation and intensification as well as the role of deep convection in the inner-core region of storms. The CPL instrument returns information on the radiative and optical properties of cirrus clouds and aerosols at a high temporal and spatial resolution. CPL uses the 355, 532, and 1064 nm channels and has a small field of view, which eliminates multiple scattering; it offers 30 m vertical resolution and 200 m horizontal resolution. The CPL instrument measures the total (aerosol plus Rayleigh) attenuated backscatter as a function of altitude at each wavelength. Data is available in netCDF/CF format, from 2012 - 2014.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
16 Sample browse image https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/hs3/CPL/browse/2013/0904/HS3_CPL_imgsum_13216b_20130904_532.gif
16 Sample browse image https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/hs3/CPL/browse/2013/0904/HS3_CPL_map_13216b_20130904.gif
21 The guide document contains detailed information about the dataset https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/doc/hs3/hs3cpl/hs3cpl_dataset.html
10 Description of the Cloud Physics Lidar (CPL) netCDF data format. https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/doc/hs3/hs3cpl/CPL_OP_HDF_format.doc
21 OPeNDAP server dataset access https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/opendap/fieldCampaigns/hs3/CPL/data/
21 Statistics of Cloud Optical Properties from Airborne Lidar Measurements https://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2011JTECHA1507.1
21 Airborne validation of cirrus cloud properties derived from CALIPSO lidar measurements: Optical properties https://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2011JD017053
21 Airborne lidar measurements of aerosol optical properties during SAFARI-2000 https://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2002JD002370
21 Airborne validation of cirrus cloud properties derived from CALIPSO lidar measurements: Spatial properties https://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2011JD015942
21 HS3 CPL Attenuated Total Backscatter Quickview https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/data-recipes/hs3-cpl-attenuated-total-backscatter-quickview
21 Sample IDL program to read a CPL optical properties (OP) HDF5 file. https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/doc/hs3/hs3cpl/read_op_hdf5.pro
21 Instructions for citing GHRC data https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/about-ghrc/citing-ghrc-daac-data
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FHS3%2FCPL%2FDATA202
21 Files may be downloaded directly to your workstation from this link https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=hs3cpl
21 Description of the Cloud Physics Lidar (CPL) netCDF data format. https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/doc/hs3/hs3cpl/CPL_netCDF_format.docx
21 Sample IDL program to read a CPL attenuated total backscatter (ATB) HDF5 file. https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/doc/hs3/hs3cpl/read_atb_hdf5.pro
21 N/A https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/hs3/CPL/browse/
21 NASA Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel mission https://espo.nasa.gov/missions/hs3/
21 The home page for the project or program which sponsored the dataset https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/projects/HS3
10 Definitions of global attributes for the CPL Attenuated Total Backscatter (ATB) HDF file. https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/doc/hs3/hs3cpl/CPL_ATB_HDF_format.doc

Tags

  • aerosols
  • atmosphere
  • weather-events
  • spectral-engineering
  • lidar
  • clouds
  • earth-science

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