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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| View the documentation for this dataset's algorithms | HTML | Airborne lidar measurements of aerosol optical properties during SAFARI-2000 | Open resource |
| View the documentation for this dataset's algorithms | HTML | Airborne validation of cirrus cloud properties derived from CALIPSO lidar measurements: Spatial properties | Open resource |
| View the documentation for this dataset's algorithms | HTML | Airborne validation of cirrus cloud properties derived from CALIPSO lidar measurements: Optical properties | Open resource |
| View the documentation for this dataset's algorithms | HTML | Statistics of Cloud Optical Properties from Airborne Lidar Measurements | Open resource |
| View information related to this dataset | HTML | NASA Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel mission | Open resource |
| View documentation related to this dataset | HTML | Instructions for citing GHRC data | Open resource |
| View this dataset's data recipes | HTML | HS3 CPL Attenuated Total Backscatter Quickview | Open resource |
| The dataset's project home page | HTML | The home page for the project or program which sponsored the dataset | Open resource |
| Use OPeNDAP to access the dataset's data | HTML | OPeNDAP server dataset access | Open resource |
| View the primary investigator's documentation for this dataset | Doc | Definitions of global attributes for the CPL Attenuated Total Backscatter (ATB) HDF file. | Open resource |
| View the primary investigator's documentation for this dataset | HTML | Description of the Cloud Physics Lidar (CPL) netCDF data format. | Open resource |
| View the primary investigator's documentation for this dataset | Doc | Description of the Cloud Physics Lidar (CPL) netCDF data format. | Open resource |
| View documentation related to this dataset | HTML | The guide document contains detailed information about the dataset | Open resource |
| Downloadable software applications | HTML | Sample IDL program to read a CPL attenuated total backscatter (ATB) HDF5 file. | Open resource |
| Downloadable software applications | HTML | Sample IDL program to read a CPL optical properties (OP) HDF5 file. | Open resource |
| Get a related visualization | HTML | N/A | Open resource |
| Get a related visualization | GIF | Sample browse image | Open resource |
| Get a related visualization | GIF | Sample browse image | Open resource |
| Google Scholar search results | HTML | Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. | Open resource |
| Download this dataset | HTML | Files may be downloaded directly to your workstation from this link | Open resource |