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Overall Title:  Data in Gapp et al. (2020) publication entitled "Comparison of
Concurrent Radar and Aircraft Measurements of Cirrus Clouds".

Data Collection Authors:  Nicholas Gapp and David J. Delene

Collection: Cape2015 Field Project

**Projects: Cape2015 Field Project

Document Type: Data

Publication Date: 2020

Abstract:  The instrumented North Dakota Citation Research Aircraft and the 
Navy’s Mid-Course Radar (MCR), a high-resolution radar, obtained concurrent
measurements of anvil cirrus clouds during seven research flights over Cape
Canaveral, Florida in the summer of 2015 (CAPE2015).  The Citation Research
Aircraft is equipped with instruments for measuring GPS location and altitude,
pressure, temperature, dew point temperature, and wind velocity, as well as
set of cloud physics instruments.  The MCR is a C-band, dual-polarization,
Doppler radar with the capability of switching between two waveforms, a
low-resolution beam and a high-resolution beam. Two radar reflectivity data
sets are included: an observed radar reflectivity factor data set from the MCR
and a derived equivalent radar reflectivity factor data set obtained from
microphysical probes onboard the Citation Research Aircraft.

**Department/Program:  Atmospheric Sciences

**Instruments: Two-Dimensional Stereo (2D-S) probe,
               High Volume Particle Spectrometer version 3 (HVPS3) probe, 
               Nevzorov Total and Liquid Water Content Probe,
               Applanix Position and Orientation System for Airborne Vehicles,
               Rosemount Total Temperature Probe,
               Two-Dimensional Cloud (2D-C) probe,
               Tunable Diode Laser Hygrometer,
               Edgetech Dew Point Sensor,
               Mid-Course Radar (MCR)

**Projects: Cape2015 Field Project

Keywords: Cirrus Clouds, Citation Research Aircraft, Mid-course Radar

Processing Level: Level 4

**File Types: ASCII

**Location: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station/Kennedy Space Center, Florida; Titusville, Florida
Spatial Resolution: 

North Boundary: 29 Degrees  0 Minutes North Latitude
West Boundary:  81 Degrees  0 Minutes West Longitude 
East Boundary:  79 Degrees 30 Minutes West Langitude
South Boundary: 27 Degrees 45 Minutes North Latitude 

Temporal Resolution: 1 Hz

**Start Date: 2015-07-31 18:18:37 UTC
Stop Date: 2015-08:02 22:00:57 UTC

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Corresponding Paper Reference: Gapp, Nicholas, David J. Delene, Jerome Schmidt,
and Paul Harasti, Comparison of Concurrent Radar and Aircraft Measurements of
Cirrus Clouds, Journal of Atmospheric Science, in preparation, 2020. 

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