ASI/MPL/M1 - instrument

Later than planned deployment of the instrument.

• lon(lon)
• Deadtime correction factor(deadtime_correction)
• Detector Temperature(detector_temp)
• Quality check results on field: Preliminary cloud base height above ground level(qc_preliminary_cbh)
• Preliminary cloud base height above ground level(preliminary_cbh)
• Background signal, co-pol(background_signal_co_pol)
• Dead time correction flag(dead_time_corrected)
• Quality check results on field: Laser temperature(qc_laser_temp)
• Laser output energy per pulse(energy_monitor)
• Width of range-bins calculated from range_bin_time(range_bin_width)
• Telescope temperature(scope_temp)
• Quality check results on field: Attenuated backscatter, cross pol(qc_signal_return_cross_pol)
• Heights for overlap correction(overlap_correction_heights)
• Quality check results on field: Detector temperature(qc_detector_temp)
• Laboratory measured counts used to calculate the deadtime correction samples(deadtime_correction_counts)
• Subtract from range_bins to yield range(range_offset)
• North Latitude(lat)
• Quality check results on field: Distance between initial range_bin and the laser
  flash(qc_range_offset)
• MCS mode register, value is either 167 or 199.(mcs_mode)
• Number of laser pulses summed during averaging interval(shots_per_avg)
• Quality check results on field: Energy output per pulse of transmitted laser
  beam at 532 nm (Doubled Nd-YLF)(qc_energy_monitor)
• Quality check results on field: Telescope temperature(qc_scope_temp)
• -180.0 - +180.0(alt)
• time_in_seconds_since_volume_start(time)
• Bin number of first data. Tells where pretrigger timing ends and end of region
  for background data sampling laser_fire_bin(first_data_bin)
• Polarization control enabled flag(polarization_control)
• base time in epoch(base_time)
• Number of bins stored in data block(num_bins)
• Results of quality checks on sample time(qc_time)
• Laser Temperature(laser_temp)
• Polarization control voltage setting(polarization_control_voltage)
• Number of detector channels(num_channels)
• Background signal standard deviation, cross-pol(background_signal_std_cross_pol)
• Background signal standard deviation, copol data(background_signal_std_co_pol)
• Maximum altitude retrieved from multichannel scalar card.(max_altitude)
• Height(height)
• Time offset from base_time(time_offset)
• Attenuated backscatter, cross pol(signal_return_cross_pol)
• Quality check results on field: Attenuated backscatter, copol(qc_signal_return_co_pol)
• Overlap correction(overlap_correction)
• Distance to the center of the corresponding range bin(range)
• Bin number associated with zero height and time where laser transmit occurs(laser_fire_bin)
• Repetition Rate, or Trigger Frequency of the laser(pulse_rep)
• Distance from leading edge of first range bin to the center of each bin .(range_bins)
• Background signal, cross pol data(background_signal_cross_pol)
• Attenuated backscatter, co-pol(signal_return_co_pol)
• Time in nanoseconds for each range bin of multichannel scalar card.(range_bin_time)

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