ATOMIC ship ceilometer: Cloud base height and vertical profiles of visible light backscattered from aerosols and clouds in the atmospheric boundary layer estimated from a vertically-pointing lidar remote sensing instrument aboard NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown in the North Atlantic Ocean, near Barbados: Atlantic Tradewind Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Interaction Campaign 2010-01-09 to 2010-02-12 (NCEI Accession 0225425)
The Atlantic Tradewind Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Interaction Campaign (ATOMIC) was a field campaign held January-February 2020 in the tropical North Atlantic east of Barbados. The campaign, the U.S. complement to the European field campaign called EUREC4A, was aimed at better understanding cloud and air-sea interaction processes. ATOMIC included measurements from a NOAA WP-3D Orion "Hurricane Hunter" aircraft, NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown, and unpiloted vehicles launched from Barbados and from NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown. This dataset contains ceilometer data in netCDF files.
Dataset Citation
- Cite as: Thompson, Elizabeth; Fairall, Chris; Pezoa, Sergio; Bariteau, Ludovic (2021). ATOMIC ship ceilometer: Cloud base height and vertical profiles of visible light backscattered from aerosols and clouds in the atmospheric boundary layer estimated from a vertically-pointing lidar remote sensing instrument aboard NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown in the North Atlantic Ocean, near Barbados: Atlantic Tradewind Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Interaction Campaign 2010-01-09 to 2010-02-12 (NCEI Accession 0225425). [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.25921/jbz6-e918. Accessed [date].
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Time Period | 2020-01-09 to 2020-02-12 |
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West: -59.6525
East: -50.9267
South: 12.7911
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Supplemental Information | Collecting PI: Elizabeth Thompson; Observations: Vaisala CL31 single-wavelength backscatter lidar (ceilometer); cloud_base_altitude; clear sky fraction; count of total cloud detections; count of cloud detections in layers 1 to 3; count of obscured cloud detections; count of partly obscured cloud detections; count of clear detections; cloud_base_altitude; volume_attenuated_backwards_scattering_function_in_air; cloud detection code; base height of first cloud layer; base height of second cloud layer; base height of third cloud layer; |
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