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The HARLIE IHOP Measurements. Geary Schwemmer, Belay Demoz NASA/GSFC, David Miller, Sangwoo Lee, Natalie Deming SSAI, Gerry McIntire RSC , Sonia Garcia USNA, Thomas Wilkerson USU. SPONSORS James Dodge NASA HQ , Stephen Mango IPO. Outline. The HARLIE instrument & raw measurements
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The HARLIE IHOP Measurements Geary Schwemmer, Belay Demoz NASA/GSFC, David Miller, Sangwoo Lee, Natalie Deming SSAI, Gerry McIntire RSC, Sonia Garcia USNA, Thomas Wilkerson USU SPONSORS James Dodge NASA HQ, Stephen Mango IPO
Outline • The HARLIE instrument & raw measurements • Derived data products • Summary and status of HARLIE IHOP data
HAVE LIDAR WILL TRAVEL A Ground-Based Holographic Airborne Rotating Lidar Instrument Experiment (HARLIE) 1µm wavelength Aerosol Backscatter: 20 m Z, 100 ms t 12-36 second, 45° elevation, azimuthal (PPI) scans 0-20km altitude, 24/7 operation Wide-angle visible SkyCam video http://harlie.gsfc.nasa.gov
Basic Data Products Background subtracted, range corrected, log (aerosol backscatter) profiles Scan averaged backscatter Scan-by-scan polar plots
Derived Data Products • BL statistics: 20 m • Cloud coverage & heights: 20 m • Wind profiles (experimental): 200 m Z, ~20 min. t
IHOP Homestead Site Wind Instrument Intercomparisons • GLOW collected over 210hrs of data • HARLIE cloud-tracked winds • SKYCAM cloud-tracked winds • S-POL Doppler radar • surface anemometer, GPS sondes (1-4 /day) • Sodar, MAPR, Umass FM-CW Radar • Transients: MIPS, DOW, X-POL, ELDORA, HRDL, WCR, dropsondes
Status of HARLIE Data Products • Scan averaged (raw) backscatter images (PNG format) • SKYCAM videos (AVI format) • Boundary Layer parameters (ASCII, NETCDF, PNG formats) • Cloud coverage & heights (ASCII, NETCDF, PNG formats) • HARLIE & SKYCAM Winds