Common Microphysics Products from the NASA DC-8
Version 4A

The authors wish to thank Dr. David Kingsmill, Desert Research Institute, Reno, Nevada for the production of these data and the Distributed Active Archive 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.

where:

cmp/cfp = commpn 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

CMP files

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

CFP files

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

2DC Image files

There is one 2DC image file (jpeg format) for each 1 km sampling bin of the flight leg. Images are displayed in blue on top of vertically oriented, gray strips. The width of these strips is 1.6 mm and represents the diode array dimension (Y-axis). Occasionally, these strips may appear relatively wide. However, their width is always scaled to 1.6 mm.

Displayed images may include artifacts that were eliminated from the quantitative analysis. The most common artifacts were streakers, thin images oriented normal to the diode array dimension.

The images in each jpeg file are those nearest the center time of the relevant 1 km sampling bin, which is listed in the image file name. If the 2DC probe did not sense any particles in a particular 1 km sampling bin, images from before or after the sampling bin are displayed. Times for each pair of image strips are indicated in each image file.

Technical Inquiries about this Data should be addressed to the Principal Investigator for the NASA DC-8 Common Microphysics Products,