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Common Microphysics Products from the UND Citation
Version 4A

Data Set Overview
Sponsor

The Files
Naming Convention
Format

Data Access & Contacts
FTP Site
Points of Contact
CMP Data (version 4A) CFP Data (version 4A)CMP Document CFP Document Adobe Acrobat download link
Alert:Version 4A of KWAJEX CMP/CFP data is available on this site. If you previously acquired Version 4 CMP/CFP products from this site, please replace them with Version 4a.
Documentation update for version 4A CMP data

Data Set Overview

The data in these files contains Version 4a Common Microphysics Products for the UND Citation aircraft during the TRMM/KWAJEX Field Campaign.

Sponsor

The distribution of these data sets is funded by NASA's Earth Science Enterprise. The data are not copyrighted; however, we request that when you publish data or results using these data, please acknowledge as follows:

The authors wish to thank Julie Haggerty, Research Aviation Facility, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado for the production of these data and the Data and Information Services Center(Code 610.2) at the Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, 20771, which archives and distributes them under sponsorship of NASA's Earth Science Enterprise.

The Files

Naming convention

The naming convention for the cmp files is

cfp_vers#_yyyymmddhhmm_expname_acname_totseg#
where:
cmp/cfp = common microphysical data file or common flight data product;
# = version number;
yyyymmddhhmm = year, month, day, hour & minute of the start of the leg;
expname = experiment name;
acname = aircraft name;
total # of 1-km segments to the flight

Formats

Each file corresponds to a flight leg defined in:

http://www.atmos.washington.edu/gcg/MG/kwajex/ops-web/prioritylegs/all_flt_legs/all_flt_legs.html

For example, cmp_vers4a_199908301910_kwajex_cit_046.txt corresponds to the flight leg starting at 1910 UTC on August 3rd, 1999.

There are two different types of files contained within the version 4a data set:

CMP files

These are Common Microphysics Product files containing the information and formatted according to the CMP Document:

TRMM Common Microphysics Product Definition

CFP files

These are Common Flight Product files used as input to the software for generating the CMP files:

TRMM Common Flight Product Definition

Data Access and Contacts

FTP Site

The CMP data resides on DISC anonymous FTP. You may access the files from this document,

FTP GIFCommon Microphysics Products

or directly via FTP at

ftp disc.gsfc.nasa.gov
login: anonymous
password: < your internet address >
cd KWAJ/aircraft/und_citation/cmpd/cmp_v4a

Points of Contact

Technical Inquiries about this Data should be addressed to the Principal Investigator for the UND Citation Common Microphysics Products,

Julie Haggerty
Project Scientist
Research Aviation Facility
National Center for Atmospheric Research
Boulder, Colorado
Phone: (303) 497-1090
FAX: (303) 497-1092
email: haggerty@ucar.edu

For Information about KWAJEX data at the Goddard DISC, contact

Hydrology Data Support Team
Goddard DISC, Code 610.2
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, MD 20771
phone: 301-614-5224
fax: 301-614-5268
email: help-disc@listserv.gsfc.nasa.gov
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