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GPM Ground Validation NOAA Surface Meteorological Station MC3E Table of Contents
The Surface Meteorological Station data was collected at the NOAA Southern Great Plains Facility for MC3E and includes wind speed and direction, temperature and humidity, and precipitation. The instruments gathering this data were a propeller wind monitor located 10 meters above the ground, a temperature and humidity sensor at the ground, and a tipping rain gauge at the ground. 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/. Instrument DescriptionThe NOAA Surface Meteorological Station contains a variety of instruments to measure meteorological parameters. A propeller wind monitor located 10 meters above the ground measures wind speed and direction. Temperature and humidity are measured by sensors at the ground. And a tipping rain gauge at the ground measures precipitation. Further instrument details including the instrument model numbers are available on the NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) web page at http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/obs/instruments/SurfaceMetDescription.html. InvestigatorsChristopher R. Williams, Ph.D., PMP Data files are of the form:
where Data Format The GPM Ground Validation NOAA Surface Meteorological Station dataset consists of 2-minute interval data gathered into daily ASCII files. The dataset contains measurements of pressure, air temperature, wind speed and direction, humidity and precipitation. More information on the data format can be found at https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/doc/gpmgv/mc3e/gpmsurmetmc3e/MC3E_NOAA_Surface_Met_Description_2012_08_23v1.pdf. 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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