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Title: ATOMIC aircraft remote sensing wave, rain: Wave height and other measurements from wide-swath radar altimeter (WSRA) aboard N43 aircraft in the North Atlantic Ocean, Barbados: Atlantic Tradewind Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Interaction Campaign 2020-01-17 to 2020-02-11 (NCEI Accession 0220627)
Abstract: 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, the research ship Ronald H. Brown, and unpiloted vehicles launched from Barbados and from the Ronald H. Brown. This accession contains wide-swath radar altimeter (WSRA) data in netCDF files.
Date received: 20200930
Start date: 20200117
End date: 20200211
Seanames: Caribbean Sea, North Atlantic Ocean
West boundary: -59.5076
East boundary: -49.499
North boundary: 15.9862
South boundary: 10.3471
Observation types: meteorological, physical
Instrument types: meteorological sensor
Datatypes: WAVE DIRECTION, WAVE HEIGHT, WIND DIRECTION, WIND SPEED
Submitter: Pincus, Robert
Submitting institution: US DOC; NOAA; OAR; ESRL; Physical Sciences Laboratory
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Contributing projects: ATOMIC
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Supplementary information: Collecting PI: Chris Fairall; Platform: NOAA aircraft Lockheed WP-3D Orion, call sign NOAA43/Miss Piggy,b.1976; Observations: Directional wave spectrum (with artifact lobes removed); Directional wave spectrum (with 180-degree ambiguity); North relative angle partitioning dominant and secondary wave field; Ocean wave field dominant wavelength; East component of aircraft distance to the hurricane center; North component of aircraft distance to the hurricane center; Peak spectral variance; platform_course; platform_orientation; wsra_computed_roll; Aircraft radar altitude measured by WSRA; platform_speed_wrt_ground; rainfall_rate; rainfall_rate; sea_surface_mean_square_slope; Median along obs dimension of sea_surface_mean_square_slope; sea_surface_wave_significant_height; Ocean wave field secondary wavelength; wavenumber_east; wavenumber_north; wavelength; wave_direction_predicted; swh_correction_ratio;
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Metadata version: 11
Keydate: 2020-10-12 09:09:25+00
Editdate: 2022-10-17 17:48:45+00