NOAA-SEARCH Atmospheric Observatory Program
Eureka, Canada
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A successful collaboration between the U.S. NOAA-SEARCH Atmosphere Program, the Canadian CANDAC Program, Meteorological Services Canada and the University of Wisconsin Lidar Group resulted in the installation of a cloud radar and cloud-aerosol lidar in Eureka, Canada in August of 2004. These instruments are the first of a comprehesive suite of radar, lidars, radiometers, wind profilers, inteferometers, chemistry and aerosol sensors that will be part of a long term Atmospheric Observatory at the Eureka site.
Daily updates are made at this site of observations from the radar (pdf description) and the lidar (Lidar description at U of W). More comprehensive data products for the lidar can be found at http://lidar.ssec.wisc.edu/syst/ahsrl/ahsrl_data.htm.
For more information on these data sets and this program, please contact Taneil.Uttal@noaa.gov.
The BROWSER allows viewing of:
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- Input radar reflectivity and lidar backscatter.
- Microwave radiometer liquid water path and rawinsonde data
- Cloud classification masks
- Ice particle and/or droplet sizes
- Ice and/or liquid water contents
- Radar reflectivity, Doppler velocity and spectral width
- Radiometer brightness temperature, infrared at 10.6-11.3 microns and microwave at 23.8 and 31.4 GHz
Data is also available through FTP. See the data page.
Did you know...
- In 1989, barometers in Eureka measured 1079.6Hpa, the highest sea level pressure ever measured in Canada.