Data · collection · 2020
Aeolus CalVal Dropsonde Profiles
Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR and NASA Data Portal — shown once because both records carry DOI 10.5067/airborne/aeolus-calval-dropsondes_dc8_1
Aeolus-CalVal-Dropsondes_DC8 is the Aeolus CalVal Dropsonde Profiles data product.
Description
Data was collected using Dropsondes from the Douglas (DC-8) Aircraft. Data collection for this product is complete.
NASA conducted an airborne campaign from 17 April to 30 April 2019 to: 1) demonstrate the performance of the Doppler Aerosol WiNd Lidar (DAWN) and High Altitude Lidar Observatory (HALO) instruments across a range of aerosol, cloud, and weather conditions; 2) compare these measurements with the European Space Agency Aeolus mission to gain an initial perspective of Aeolus performance in preparation for a future international Aeolus Cal/Val airborne campaign; and 3) demonstrate how weather processes can be resolved and better understood through simultaneous airborne wind, water vapor (WV), and aerosol profile observations, coupled with numerical model and other remote sensing observations.
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Five NASA DC-8 aircraft flights, comprising 46 flight hours, were conducted over the Eastern Pacific and Southwest U.S., based out of NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center in Palmdale, CA and Kona, HI. Yankee Environmental Systems, Inc High Definition Sounding System (HDSS) eXpendable Digitial Dropsondes (XDD) were used to validate the DAWN and Aeolus wind observations. The LaRC Diode Laser Hygrometer instrument, which was integrated on the DC-8 in preparation for another NASA airborne campaign, provided in-situ WV measurements used during one flight to validate HALO and dropsonde WV profile products.
Links
Get the data
- Resource doi.org/10.5067/airborne/aeolus-calval-dropsondes_dc8_1 ↗
DOI data set landing page for Aeolus-CalVal-Dropsondes_DC8_1
landing page · download · DOI / persistent id · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- Resource nasa.gov/image-feature/langley/going-where-the-wind-takes-it ↗
NASA.gov Article "Going Where the Wind Takes It" (March 18, 2019)
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- Resource eoportal.org/web/eoportal/airborne-sensors/halo ↗
Earth Observatory Overview of the HALO (High Altitude Lidar Observatory) Instrument
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- Resource nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/illuminating-gases-in-the-sky-nasa-techno… ↗
NASA.gov Article "Illuminating Gases in the Sky: NASA Technology Pinpoints Potent Greenhouse Gases" (April 19, 2019)
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- Original Metadata cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C3880544877-LARC_CLOUD.iso19115 ↗
download · from data nasa gov
- Aeolus Data on the Sub-Orbital Order Tool asdc.larc.nasa.gov/soot/power-user/AEOLUS/2019 ↗
download · from NASA CMR
- search.earthdata.nasa.gov /search/granules?p=C3880544877-LARC_CLOUD ↗
Earthdata Search for Aeolus-CalVal-Dropsondes_DC8_1 (NASA Application to search, discover, visualize, refine, and access NASA Earth Observation data)
download · from NASA CMR
- cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov /virtual-directory/collections/C3880544877-LARC_CLOUD ↗
Virtual Directory for Aeolus-CalVal-Dropsondes_DC8_1
download · from NASA CMR
- Resource asdc.larc.nasa.gov/citing-data ↗
download · from data nasa gov
- Resource asdc.larc.nasa.gov/project/Aeolus/pdocuments ↗
download · from data nasa gov
Where it is published
- NASA Data Portal dataset page data.nasa.gov/dataset/aeolus-calval-dropsonde-profiles-fa557 ↗
landing page · from data nasa gov
Documentation and papers
- Aeolus Aircraft Videos Data Access asp-archive.arc.nasa.gov/AEOLUS-2019/N817NA/Video ↗
documentation · from NASA CMR
- NASA Testing Airborne Lasers to Touch the Wind science.nasa.gov/technology/science-instruments/nasa-testing-airborne-lasers-to… ↗
documentation · from NASA CMR
- Aeolus Earthdata Home Page earthdata.nasa.gov/data/projects/aeolus ↗
documentation · from NASA CMR
- epj-conferences.org /articles/epjconf/pdf/2018/11/epjconf_ilrc28_02015.pdf ↗
An Assessment of the Expected Quality of Aeolus Level-2B Wind Products
documentation · from NASA CMR
- How to cite Aeolus Cal/Val data earthdata.nasa.gov/engage/open-data-services-software-policies/data-use-guidance ↗
documentation · from NASA CMR
Catalogue records · 3
- CMR UMM-JSON cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C3880544877-LARC_CLOUD.umm_json ↗
metadata API · from NASA CMR
- CKAN API data.nasa.gov/api/3/action/package_show?id=e6f5dc08-8bb7-492f-8c55-23bccbd5a… ↗
metadata API · from data nasa gov
- CMR record cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C3880544877-LARC_CLOUD.html ↗
catalogue entry · from NASA CMR
Topics
- Stated by source
- Air Temperature · Atmospheric Temperature · Atmospheric Winds · DROPSONDES · Local Winds · NASA Douglas DC-8 · Surface Winds · Upper Level Winds · Wind Direction · Wind Profiles · Wind Speed
- From keywords
- Ocean & Atmospheric Science
- Inferred from text
- Satellite remote sensing 65%
Provenance · 2 source records, 23 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| NASA Earthdata CMR | C3880544877-LARC_CLOUD | 8 d ago | JSON v1 |
| NASA Data Portal | e6f5dc08-8bb7-492f-8c55-23bccbd5aa23 | 5 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| access_level | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:ocean-atmospheric | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[instrument].gcmd_instrument:dropsondes | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/atmospheric-temperature | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/atmospheric-temperature/surface-temperature/air-temperature | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/atmospheric-winds | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/atmospheric-winds/local-winds | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/atmospheric-winds/surface-winds | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/atmospheric-winds/upper-level-winds | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/atmospheric-winds/upper-level-winds/wind-direction | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/atmospheric-winds/upper-level-winds/wind-speed | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/atmospheric-winds/wind-profiles | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[modality].local:modality:remote-sensing | enrichment · NASA CMR | keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0 | title+description (65%) |
| concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:nasa-dc-8 | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| created_date | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/Abstract |
| license_text | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| publication_date | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| spatial | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/SpatialExtent |
| temporal | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/TemporalExtents |
| title | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/EntryTitle |
| updated_date | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| version_label | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 |