"MPL" VAP Process
Instrument Categories: Cloud Properties
Description: Micropulse Lidar
Value-Added Products (VAPs) Produced
- arscl1cloth - ARSCL: multiple outputs from first Clothiaux algorithms on BLC, MPL, MMCR
- arsclbnd1cloth - ARSCL: cloud boundaries from first Clothiaux algorithms on BLC, MPL, MMCR
- arsclcbh1cloth - ARSCL: cloud base height from first Clothiaux algorithms on BLC, MPL, MMCR
- mplcbh1scott - MPL: cloud base heights using the Scott/Spinhirne algorithm
- mplcmask1cloth - MPL: cloud mask using the first Clothiaux, et al algorithm
- mplnor1camp - MPL: backscatter profiles normalized and cloud detection routine applied.
- mplpolavg - Micropulse Lidar polarized (MPLPOL) data averaged to fixed 30 second interval
- mplsmask1cloth - MPL: "significance" mask using the first Clothiaux, et al algorithm
Primary Measurements
The following measurements are those considered scientifically relevant. Refer to the datastream (netcdf) file headers for the list of all available measurements, including those recorded for diagnostic or quality assurance purposes.
Sites / Facilities
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- North Slope Alaska (NSA)
- Central Facility, Barrow AK (C1)
- Southern Great Plains (SGP)
- Central Facility, Lamont, OK (C1)
- Tropical Western Pacific (TWP)
- Central Facility, Darwin, North Australia (C3)
- Central Facility, Manus I., PNG (C1)
- Central Facility, Nauru Island (C2)
- ARM Mobile Facility (FKB)
- Black Forest, Germany (M1)
- ARM Mobile Facility (GRW)
- Graciosa Island, Azores, Portugal (M1)
- ARM Mobile Facility (HFE)
- Shouxian, Anhui, China (M1)
- ARM Mobile Facility (NIM)
- Niamey, Niger (M1)
- ARM Mobile Facility (PYE)
- Point Reyes, CA (M1)