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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 Anton Kruger of the University of Iowa 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.
Characteristics
| Integral Parameters | Units |
| Total number of hydrometeors | m0 |
| Rainrate, method 1 | mm/h |
| Rainrate, method 2 | mm/h |
| Rainrate, method 3 | mm/h |
| Reflectivity | mm^6 m^-3 |
| Reflectivity | dBZ |
| Number of rain drops through sensing area | |
| Dropsize Distribution Information | Units |
| Time of first drop through sensing area | UTC |
| Time of last drop through sensing area | UTC |
| Integration time | sec |
| Total number of drops |
| Number of drop classes |
| Classification bin size | mm |
| Spectra: Variables | Units |
| Bin # |
| D | mm |
| N(D) | mm^-1 m^-3 |
| Count |
| Ave. Vert. Vel. | m/s |
| Ave. Obl. |
| Ave. Dia. | mm |
| QFlag |
| Vel. Sdev. |
| Obl. Sdev. |
| Dia. Sdev |
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Naming Convention
The filenaming convention is the same for all files and has the structure:
YYMMDDHH.mm
where
YY = year (1999)
MM = month
DD = day of month
HH = UTC hour
mm = minutes after the hour
Characteristics
The disdrometer data are in tabularly formatted ASCII text files.
| Directory | #Files | Avg file size | Total | Data Set volume |
| minstats | 193 | 8KB | 1556KB | 6.05MB |
| minute | 268 | 17.3KB | 4640KB |
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FTP Site
The University of Iowa disdrometer data from KWAJEX may be accessed from this page,
Disdrometer Data Online
or directly via ftp:
ftp disc2.nascom.nasa.gov
logon: anonymous
passwd:
cd data/KWAJ/surface_data/disdrometers/uiowa_disdrom/KWAJEX
The Principal Investigator for the University of Iowa disdrometer data is
Anton Kruger
The University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242
anton-kruger@uiowa.edu
For additional information, please contact the GES DISC User Services:
Last update:Thu Dec 4 14:19:55 EST 2003
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