DQRID : D160229.2
Start DateStart TimeEnd DateEnd Time
10/22/2014154010/24/20140000
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Subject:
SGP/DL/DLPROF/C1 - Data collected at vendor facility
DataStreams:sgpdlfptC1.b1, sgpdlrhi2C1.b1, sgpdlrhi2C1.a0, sgpdlC1.00, sgpdlppiC1.a0, sgpdlppiC1.b1,
sgpdlcal1C1.b1, sgpdlauxC1.a0, sgpdlfptC1.a0, sgpdlcal2C1.a0, sgpdlprofwstats4newsC1.c1,
sgpdlprofwind4newsC1.c1, sgpdlcal1C1.a0, sgpdlusrC1.b1, sgpdlcal2C1.b1
Description:
Data collected during this period were recorded at the vendor facility in England (not 
SGP) for test purposes only.
Suggestions: 
Do not use these data.
Measurements:sgpdlcal2C1.a0:
  • Attenuated backscatter(attenuated_backscatter)
  • Time offset from base_time(time_offset)
  • time_in_seconds_since_volume_start(time)
  • lon(lon)
  • Distance to the center of the corresponding range bin(range)
  • North Latitude(lat)
  • -180.0 - +180.0(alt)
  • Radial velocity(radial_velocity)
  • base time in epoch(base_time)
  • Beam Elevation Angle(elevation)
  • Intensity (signal to noise ratio + 1)(intensity)
  • Beam azimuth relative to Lidar home point(relative_azimuth)
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sgpdlcal2C1.b1:
  • Radial velocity(radial_velocity)
  • base time in epoch(base_time)
  • Attenuated backscatter(attenuated_backscatter)
  • lon(lon)
  • Time offset from base_time(time_offset)
  • Azimuth of Radar Ray(azimuth)
  • Quality check results on field: Radial velocity(qc_radial_velocity)
  • North Latitude(lat)
  • Intensity (signal to noise ratio + 1)(intensity)
  • -180.0 - +180.0(alt)
  • time_in_seconds_since_volume_start(time)
  • Beam Elevation Angle(elevation)
  • Distance to the center of the corresponding range bin(range)
  • Results of quality checks on sample time(qc_time)
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sgpdlauxC1.a0:
  • Relative humidity calculated from the merged water vapor mixing ratio data(relative_humidity)
  • Roll angle reported by tilt table, positive is port side up(roll)
  • Battery voltage(battery_voltage)
  • base time in epoch(base_time)
  • Time offset from base_time(time_offset)
  • -180.0 - +180.0(alt)
  • North Latitude(lat)
  • Pitch, bow up positive(pitch)
  • Temperature used for calculation(temperature)
  • time_in_seconds_since_volume_start(time)
  • lon(lon)
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sgpdlusrC1.b1:
  • Attenuated backscatter(attenuated_backscatter)
  • Radial velocity(radial_velocity)
  • Results of quality checks on sample time(qc_time)
  • Beam azimuth relative to Lidar home point(relative_azimuth)
  • Time offset from base_time(time_offset)
  • base time in epoch(base_time)
  • time_in_seconds_since_volume_start(time)
  • Distance to the center of the corresponding range bin(range)
  • Azimuth of Radar Ray(azimuth)
  • Quality check results on field: Radial velocity(qc_radial_velocity)
  • lon(lon)
  • Intensity (signal to noise ratio + 1)(intensity)
  • Beam Elevation Angle(elevation)
  • North Latitude(lat)
  • -180.0 - +180.0(alt)
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sgpdlppiC1.a0:
  • -180.0 - +180.0(alt)
  • base time in epoch(base_time)
  • North Latitude(lat)
  • time_in_seconds_since_volume_start(time)
  • Attenuated backscatter(attenuated_backscatter)
  • Radial velocity(radial_velocity)
  • Intensity (signal to noise ratio + 1)(intensity)
  • lon(lon)
  • Beam azimuth relative to Lidar home point(relative_azimuth)
  • Beam Elevation Angle(elevation)
  • Distance to the center of the corresponding range bin(range)
  • Time offset from base_time(time_offset)
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sgpdlppiC1.b1:
  • lon(lon)
  • Attenuated backscatter(attenuated_backscatter)
  • Intensity (signal to noise ratio + 1)(intensity)
  • Time offset from base_time(time_offset)
  • Beam Elevation Angle(elevation)
  • base time in epoch(base_time)
  • Radial velocity(radial_velocity)
  • -180.0 - +180.0(alt)
  • North Latitude(lat)
  • Distance to the center of the corresponding range bin(range)
  • time_in_seconds_since_volume_start(time)
  • Results of quality checks on sample time(qc_time)
  • Azimuth of Radar Ray(azimuth)
  • Quality check results on field: Radial velocity(qc_radial_velocity)
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sgpdlrhi2C1.a0:
  • Distance to the center of the corresponding range bin(range)
  • Radial velocity(radial_velocity)
  • North Latitude(lat)
  • Attenuated backscatter(attenuated_backscatter)
  • -180.0 - +180.0(alt)
  • Beam Elevation Angle(elevation)
  • Time offset from base_time(time_offset)
  • time_in_seconds_since_volume_start(time)
  • base time in epoch(base_time)
  • Intensity (signal to noise ratio + 1)(intensity)
  • lon(lon)
  • Beam azimuth relative to Lidar home point(relative_azimuth)
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sgpdlrhi2C1.b1:
  • Beam azimuth relative to Lidar home point(relative_azimuth)
  • lon(lon)
  • North Latitude(lat)
  • -180.0 - +180.0(alt)
  • Attenuated backscatter(attenuated_backscatter)
  • Distance to the center of the corresponding range bin(range)
  • Results of quality checks on sample time(qc_time)
  • time_in_seconds_since_volume_start(time)
  • Beam Elevation Angle(elevation)
  • Azimuth of Radar Ray(azimuth)
  • Radial velocity(radial_velocity)
  • Intensity (signal to noise ratio + 1)(intensity)
  • Quality check results on field: Radial velocity(qc_radial_velocity)
  • base time in epoch(base_time)
  • Time offset from base_time(time_offset)
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sgpdlfptC1.b1:
  • Intensity (signal to noise ratio + 1)(intensity)
  • Results of quality checks on sample time(qc_time)
  • Distance to the center of the corresponding range bin(range)
  • Beam Elevation Angle(elevation)
  • lon(lon)
  • Radial velocity(radial_velocity)
  • Attenuated backscatter(attenuated_backscatter)
  • Azimuth of Radar Ray(azimuth)
  • Quality check results on field: Radial velocity(qc_radial_velocity)
  • base time in epoch(base_time)
  • North Latitude(lat)
  • Time offset from base_time(time_offset)
  • time_in_seconds_since_volume_start(time)
  • -180.0 - +180.0(alt)
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sgpdlfptC1.a0:
  • lon(lon)
  • Time offset from base_time(time_offset)
  • Distance to the center of the corresponding range bin(range)
  • time_in_seconds_since_volume_start(time)
  • Attenuated backscatter(attenuated_backscatter)
  • Beam azimuth relative to Lidar home point(relative_azimuth)
  • base time in epoch(base_time)
  • Radial velocity(radial_velocity)
  • Intensity (signal to noise ratio + 1)(intensity)
  • Beam Elevation Angle(elevation)
  • North Latitude(lat)
  • -180.0 - +180.0(alt)
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sgpdlprofwstats4newsC1.c1:
  • Time offset from base_time(time_offset)
  • Median Doppler lidar cloud base height(dl_cbh)
  • Ceilometer cloud base height 75th percentile(ceil_cbh_75)
  • Temperature from eddy correlation system(ecor_temp)
  • 1000 * log10(noise signal level)(noise)
  • Number of raw digitizer samples per range gate for the Doppler lidar(ngate_samples)
  • lon(lon)
  • Turbulence kinetic energy from eddy correlation system(ecor_tke)
  • Water vapor density from eddy correlation system(ecor_h2o)
  • Vertical velocity kurtosis using SNR threshold(w_kurtosis)
  • Time range for the hourly averages, in time offset from midnight(time_bounds)
  • Fraction of time that a cloud is detected during averaging period from ceil(ceil_cloud_frequency)
  • Median vertical velocity(w)
  • Minimum surface precipitation rate during averaging period from MET(met_spr_min)
  • Doppler lidar cloud base vertical velocity updraft fraction(cbw_up_fraction)
  • MET altitude(met_alt)
  • Ceilometer cloud base height 25th percentile(ceil_cbh_25)
  • North Latitude(lat)
  • SNR 25th percentile(snr_25)
  • Averaging time interval(averaging_time)
  • Noise corrected vertical velocity variance(w_variance)
  • Wt covariance from eddy correlation system(ecor_wt)
  • -180.0 - +180.0(alt)
  • Vertical velocity skewness from eddy correlation system(ecor_w_skew)
  • Wq covariance from eddy correlation system(ecor_wq)
  • Vertical velocity 25th percentile(w_25)
  • MET latitude(met_lat)
  • Ceilometer altitude above mean sea level(ceil_alt)
  • time_in_seconds_since_volume_start(time)
  • Doppler lidar digitizer sample rate(sample_frequency)
  • Ceilometer north latitude(ceil_lat)
  • Maximum detection height for dl_cbh(dl_cbh_zmax)
  • Maximum detection height for ceil_cbh(ceil_cbh_zmax)
  • Friction velocity from eddy correlation system(ecor_ustar)
  • Vertical velocity kurtosis from eddy correlation system(ecor_w_kurt)
  • base time in epoch(base_time)
  • Median ceilometer cloud base height(ceil_cbh)
  • Doppler lidar cloud base vertical velocity 25th percentile(cbw_25)
  • Signal-to-noise-ratio(snr)
  • East longitude MET system(met_lon)
  • East longitude of eddy correlation system(ecor_lon)
  • Height(height)
  • Doppler lidar cloud base vertical velocity 75th percentile(cbw_75)
  • SNR threshold(snr_threshold)
  • North latitude of eddy correlation system(ecor_lat)
  • Altitude above mean sea level of eddy correlation system(ecor_alt)
  • SNR 75th percentile(snr_75)
  • Vertical velocity 75th percentile(w_75)
  • Doppler lidar cloud base height 25th percentile(dl_cbh_25)
  • Maximum surface precipitation rate from MET(met_spr_max)
  • Median Doppler lidar cloud base vertical velocity(cbw)
  • Vertical velocity skewness using SNR threshold(w_skewness)
  • Ceilometer east longitude(ceil_lon)
  • Vertical velocity variance from eddy correlation system(ecor_w_var)
  • Top of atmosphere spectrum wavelengths(wavelength)
  • Mean surface precipitation rate from MET(met_spr_mean)
  • Doppler lidar cloud base height 75th percentile(dl_cbh_75)
  • Fraction of time that a cloud is detected during averaging period from DL(dl_cloud_frequency)
  • Number of laser shots averaged per beam for the Doppler lidar(nshots)
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sgpdlC1.00:
  • (Raw data stream - documentation not supported)
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sgpdlcal1C1.a0:
  • Distance to the center of the corresponding range bin(range)
  • Time offset from base_time(time_offset)
  • time_in_seconds_since_volume_start(time)
  • lon(lon)
  • Beam Elevation Angle(elevation)
  • North Latitude(lat)
  • Radial velocity(radial_velocity)
  • -180.0 - +180.0(alt)
  • Attenuated backscatter(attenuated_backscatter)
  • Intensity (signal to noise ratio + 1)(intensity)
  • Beam azimuth relative to Lidar home point(relative_azimuth)
  • base time in epoch(base_time)
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sgpdlcal1C1.b1:
  • Time offset from base_time(time_offset)
  • Radial velocity(radial_velocity)
  • base time in epoch(base_time)
  • time_in_seconds_since_volume_start(time)
  • Attenuated backscatter(attenuated_backscatter)
  • Intensity (signal to noise ratio + 1)(intensity)
  • Distance to the center of the corresponding range bin(range)
  • lon(lon)
  • Beam Elevation Angle(elevation)
  • North Latitude(lat)
  • -180.0 - +180.0(alt)
  • Results of quality checks on sample time(qc_time)
  • Quality check results on field: Radial velocity(qc_radial_velocity)
  • Azimuth of Radar Ray(azimuth)
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sgpdlprofwind4newsC1.c1:
  • Vector mean surface wind speed from MET(met_wspd)
  • Estimated error in eastward component of wind vector(u_error)
  • Time offset from base_time(time_offset)
  • lon(lon)
  • time_in_seconds_since_volume_start(time)
  • Estimated error in northward component of wind vector(v_error)
  • North Latitude(lat)
  • -180.0 - +180.0(alt)
  • base time in epoch(base_time)
  • PPI scan duration(scan_duration)
  • Minimum surface precipitation rate during averaging period from MET(met_spr_min)
  • Signal to noise ratio averaged over nbeams(mean_snr)
  • Wind direction error(wind_direction_error)
  • Median vertical velocity(w)
  • v-component of wind(v)
  • u-component of wind(u)
  • Fit correlation coefficient(correlation)
  • MET latitude(met_lat)
  • Vector mean surface wind direction from MET(met_wdir)
  • Averaging period length used for MET data(met_dt)
  • Wind speed 5m AGL at the ground station(wind_speed)
  • MET altitude(met_alt)
  • Elevation angle(elevation_angle)
  • Mean surface precipitation rate during averaging period from MET(met_spr)
  • Fit residual(residual)
  • Number of beams (azimuth angles) used in wind vector estimation(nbeams)
  • Wind speed error(wind_speed_error)
  • Height(height)
  • Estimated error in vertical component of wind vector(w_error)
  • East longitude MET system(met_lon)
  • SNR threshold(snr_threshold)
  • Direction from which the wind blows, with respect to Geographic or Magnetic
    north(wind_direction)
  • Maximum surface precipitation rate from MET(met_spr_max)
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