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DC-8 Meteorological and Navigation Data TC4
Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR and NASA Data Portal — shown once because both records carry DOI 10.5067/tc4/dc8nav/data101
The DC-8 Meteorological and Navigation Data CPEX-AW dataset is a subset of airborne measurements that include GPS positioning and trajectory data, aircraft orientation, and atmospheric state measurements of temperature, pressure, water vapor, and horizontal winds.
Description
These measurements were taken from the NASA DC-8 aircraft during the the Tropical Composition, Cloud, and Climate Coupling (TC4) field campaign. TC4 took place during the boreal summer of 2007, with the primary goal was to better understand the role that the tropical tropopause layer (TTL) plays in the Earth’s climate and atmospheric chemistry by using in situ and remotely sensed products from the ground, balloons, and aircraft with data collected from NASA satellites.
TC4 allowed researchers to gain insight into convective transport between the ground and the TLL, and into transport mechanisms across the TTL. Data are available from June 28 through August 10, 2007 in ICARTT-ASCII and PDF formats.
Links
Get the data
- DC-8 Airborne Science Experimenter Handbook airbornescience.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/DC8_Experimenter_Handbook_Jan2011v2.pdf ↗
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- DC-8 Meteorological and Navigation Data TC4 ghrc.earthdata.nasa.gov/browseui ↗
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- search.earthdata.nasa.gov /search/granules?p=C3977945469-GHRC_DAAC ↗
Earthdata Search allows users to search, discover, visualize, refine, and access NASA Earth Observation data.
download · from NASA CMR
- Original Metadata cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C3977945469-GHRC_DAAC.iso19115 ↗
download · from data nasa gov
Where it is published
- NASA Data Portal dataset page data.nasa.gov/dataset/dc-8-meteorological-and-navigation-data-tc4 ↗
landing page · from data nasa gov
- DOI doi.org/10.5067/tc4/dc8nav/data101 ↗
DOI / persistent id · from NASA CMR
Catalogue records · 3
- CMR UMM-JSON cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C3977945469-GHRC_DAAC.umm_json ↗
metadata API · from NASA CMR
- CKAN API data.nasa.gov/api/3/action/package_show?id=59108206-5dcd-479b-9b20-33eb0557d… ↗
metadata API · from data nasa gov
- CMR record cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C3977945469-GHRC_DAAC.html ↗
catalogue entry · from NASA CMR
Topics
- Stated by source
- Global Positioning System · NASA Douglas DC-8 · Platform Characteristics
- From keywords
- Astronomy & Astrophysics · Earth & Environmental Science · Engineering · Ocean & Atmospheric Science · Physics
Provenance · 2 source records, 18 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| NASA Earthdata CMR | C3977945469-GHRC_DAAC | 7 d ago | JSON v1 |
| NASA Data Portal | 59108206-5dcd-479b-9b20-33eb0557d21a | 4 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| access_level | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:astronomy | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:engineering | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:ocean-atmospheric | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:physics | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[instrument].gcmd_instrument:gps | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/spectral-engineering/platform-characteristics | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:nasa-dc-8 | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| created_date | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/Abstract |
| license_text | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| publication_date | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| spatial | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/SpatialExtent |
| temporal | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/TemporalExtents |
| title | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/EntryTitle |
| updated_date | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| version_label | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 |