Data · dataset · 2026
Wichita UMBC Ceilometer (Version 2)
Listed in National Center for Atmospheric Research
This data set contains the backscatter profiles and cloud base height observations from the UMBC Vaisala CL31 Ceilometer that was located at the Wichita, Kansas National Weather Service office during PECAN.
Description
These data are in netCDF format. Version 1 of this data set had incorrect values written into the "background_light" variable.
Version 2 corrected this problem and was released 1 February 2016.
Links
Get the data
- Resource Homepage doi.org/10.5065/d6zs2tkv ↗
download · DOI / persistent id · from data ucar edu
Where it is published
- data.ucar.edu /dataset/wichita-umbc-ceilometer-version-2 ↗
National Center for Atmospheric Research dataset page
landing page · from data ucar edu
Catalogue records · 1
- CKAN API data.ucar.edu/api/3/action/package_show?id=c395e65d-86a3-4f05-984b-9c36302e1… ↗
metadata API · from data ucar edu
Topics
- From keywords
- Earth & Environmental Science · Engineering · Ocean & Atmospheric Science
Provenance · 1 source records, 8 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Center for Atmospheric Research | c395e65d-86a3-4f05-984b-9c36302e1b43 | 8 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · data ucar edu | connector:data_ucar_edu@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:engineering | mapping · data ucar edu | connector:data_ucar_edu@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:ocean-atmospheric | mapping · data ucar edu | connector:data_ucar_edu@1.0.0 | |
| created_date | source · data ucar edu | connector:data_ucar_edu@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · data ucar edu | connector:data_ucar_edu@1.0.0 | /notes |
| publication_date | source · data ucar edu | connector:data_ucar_edu@1.0.0 | |
| title | source · data ucar edu | connector:data_ucar_edu@1.0.0 | /title |
| updated_date | source · data ucar edu | connector:data_ucar_edu@1.0.0 |