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GPM Ground Validation Campaign Reports MC3E Table of Contents
The GPM Ground Validation Campaign Reports MC3E dataset consists of various reports filed by the scientists during the MC3E campaign which took place from mid April thru 3rd June 2011. Several of the reports are from the planning, test flights, and preparation as early as March 22, 2011. Reports included in this dataset are for the Mission Scientist, Mission Manager, Instrument Scientists, and Weather Forecasts. Many reports have additional information included as attachments. The file MC3E Scorecard contains summary information designating the coordination of the aircraft and ground platforms to the operating instruments during April, May and June of the experiment. CampaignThe Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment (MC3E) took place in central Oklahoma during the April-June 2011 period. The experiment was a collaborative effort between the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission Ground Validation (GV) program. The field campaign leveraged the unprecedented observing infrastructure currently available in the central United States, combined with an extensive sounding array, remote sensing and in situ aircraft observations, NASA GPM ground validation remote sensors, and new ARM instrumentation purchased with American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding. The overarching goal was to provide the most complete characterization of convective cloud systems, precipitation, and the environment that has ever been obtained, providing constraints for model cumulus parameterizations and space-based rainfall retrieval algorithms over land that had never before been available. Further details on GPM MC3E are available at http://gpm.nsstc.nasa.gov/mc3e/. Information on MC3E ARM is available at http://campaign.arm.gov/mc3e/. File Naming ConventionThe MC3E Scorecard summary file, MC3E_Scorecard_2011-04-23_2011-06-02.xlsx, covers April 23 to June 2, 2011. The report files in this dataset are illustrated by a representative collection of examples listed below:
where: Data Format The GPM Ground Validation Campaign Reports MC3E dataset consists of reports in Acrobat Portable Document Format (.pdf) format and Tape ARchive (.tar) files. Reports with associated attachments have been bundled along with the attachments into a .tar file. The attachments are in various formats such as PowerPoint (.pptx), Joint Photographic Experts Group (.jpg), Portable Network Graphics (.png), Microsoft Word (.docx). CitationOur data sets are provided through the NASA Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS) Project and the Global Hydrology Resource Center (GHRC) Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC). GHRC DAAC is one of NASA's Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) data centers that are part of the ESDIS project. ESDIS data are not copyrighted; however, in the event that you publish our data or results derived by using our data, we request that you include an acknowledgment within the text of the article and a citation on your reference list. Examples for general acknowledgments, data set citation in a reference listing, and crediting online web images and information can be found at: http://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/uso/citation.html Contact InformationTo order these data or for further information, please contact:
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