ACT-America: Profile-based Planetary Boundary Layer Heights, Eastern USA
This dataset provides profile-based estimates of the height to the top of the planetary boundary layer (PBL), also known as the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL), in meters above mean sea level estimated from meteorological measurements acquired during ascending or descending vertical profile flight segments during NASA's Atmospheric Carbon and Transport - America (ACT-America) airborne campaign. ACT-America flights sampled the atmosphere over the central and eastern United States seasonally from 2016 - 2019. Two aircraft platforms, the NASA Langley Beechcraft B-200 King Air and the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's C-130 Hercules, were used to collect high-quality in situ measurements across a variety of continental surfaces and atmospheric conditions.
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| Spatial Extent: | Bounding Rectangle: N: 49.49 S: 28.65 E: -73.13 W: -106.36 |
Data Format(s): | Distribution: CSV |
| Temporal Extent: | Platform(s): | B-200, C-130 | |
| Data Center(s): | ORNL_DAAC | Instrument(s): | TEMPERATURE SENSORS |
| Version: | 1.1 | ||
- Other Citation Details: Pal, S. 2019. ACT-America: Profile-based Planetary Boundary Layer Heights, Eastern USA. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1706
- GENERAL DOCUMENTATION: https://daac.ornl.gov/ACTAMERICA/guides/Profile_based_PBL_heights.html, ORNL DAAC Data Set Documentation
- GENERAL DOCUMENTATION: https://daac.ornl.gov/daacdata/actamerica/Profile_based_PBL_heights/comp/Profile_based_PBL_heights.pdf, ACT-America: Profile-based Planetary Boundary Layer Heights, Eastern USA: Profile_based_PBL_heights.pdf
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DOI
10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1706
https://doi.org
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Variables mapped on uniform space-time grid scales with completeness and consistency
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Projects
| Project Short Name | Campaigns | Project Dates |
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| ACT-America | No campaigns listed. | No dates provided. |
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| Coverage Type | Zone Identifier | Geometry | Granule Representation |
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| HORIZONTAL | CARTESIAN | CARTESIAN |
Location Keywords
- CONTINENT
- NORTH AMERICA
- UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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ORNL_DAAC
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ORNL DAAC User Services Office, P.O. Box 2008, MS 6407, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6407
(865) 241-3952
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Format: CSV
Format Type: Native
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