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Mesoscale convective system (MCS) database over United States

Dataset ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.5439/1571643· OSTI ID:1571643
The mesoscale convective system (MCS) database over contiguous United States (CONUS) is a long-term (2004-2016) high-resolution (4 km, 1 hourly) storm system data set that tracks individual MCS events. The MCS database is produced by applying an updated version of the FLEXible object TRaKeR (FLEXTRKR) (Feng et al. 2018) algorithm described in detail in Feng et al. (2019) to the NASA Global MergedIR infrared brightness temperature (Janowiak et al. 2001) and the GridRad mosaic 3D NEXRAD radar data set (Bowman and Homeyer 2017).
Research Organization:
Atmospheric Radiation Measurement User Facility
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
Contributing Organization:
PNNL, BNL, ANL, ORNL
DOE Contract Number:
AC05-00OR22725
OSTI ID:
1571643
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English