Mesoscale convective system (MCS) database over United States

doi:10.5439/1571643

Title: Mesoscale convective system (MCS) database over United States

Abstract

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).

Creator(s)/Author(s):: Feng, Zhe

Publication Date:: 2004-01-01

DOE Contract Number:: DE-AC05-00OR22725

Product Type:: Dataset

Research Org.:: Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Archive, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (US); ARM Data Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)

Subject:: 54 Environmental Sciences

Keywords:: Precipitation,Infrared brightness temperature,Radar reflectivity,Convective stratiform classification,Cloud top height,Cloud lifetime,Propagation speed, ARM, DOE.

OSTI Identifier:: 1571643

DOI:: 10.5439/1571643

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"Mesoscale convective system (MCS) database over United States".  United States.  doi:10.5439/1571643.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1571643. Pub date:Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2004

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  title        = {Mesoscale convective system (MCS) database over United States},

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  abstractNote = {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).},

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ARM focuses on obtaining continuous measurements—supplemented by field campaigns—and providing data products that promote the advancement of climate models. ARM data include routine data products, value-added products (VAPs), field campaign data, complementary external data products from collaborating programs, and data contributed by ARM principal investigators for use by the scientific community. Data quality reports, graphical displays of data availability/quality, and data plots are also available from the ARM Data Center. Serving users worldwide, the ARM Data Center collects and archives approximately 20 terabytes of data per month. Datastreams are generally available for download within 48 hours.

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