VORTEX95 ELDORA Data Availability

About These Data

NCAR's ELDORA radar operated in support of the VORTEX95 Project during April, May and June, 1995. For project flight summaries, please click here

RDP maintains a permanent archive of all ELDORA data for this project, and may be contacted for data requests. For information on ordering data, click here

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GoTo Introduction, VORTEX95 ELDORA Operations Report

Tapes and Time Periods Available

The following tape data with the indicated time spans are available. Note that time gaps may occasionally exist within a tape, and the summary information file should be consulted to determine if a specific time period actually exists on tape (click on the tape number to view the summary file; click here for general information about the contents of the summary files). Tape numbers shown are RDP archive numbers, and may be referenced when requesting data. Click on the

button (when present) to review radar scan patterns for the time period of a corresponding tape.

ELDORA Radar Images during VORTEX95

Movie loops of selected scans have been created for some tapes during certain radar projects. If a movie exists, you will see the

icon on the line with the tape number. Click on this

icon to get a good summary of radar data for the period of the data tape. Note that these movies may be long! (2 to 4 Mbytes is not unusual). Also note that a given movie may actually extend into the time period of the next tape in the list; no icon will then appear for this next tape (if you think you want to view a movie for a given tape, but the icon is not present, try using the loop for the preceding tape).

Movies can be provided on tape media for users who desire their own copy, or in cases where lack of sufficient network bandwidth makes access a torment.

For VORTEX95, serious compilation of movies has yet to be done, and references (here) to movies are mostly boiler plate and reminders. The images have been processed into movies using MPEG routines. Note that there is considerable loss of detail during this processing, and on occasion, artifacts have been introduced by the MPEG routines.

These images are meant to serve as a quick overview of radar data collected during a field project. The images represent degraded data that are not suitable for quantitative analysis! Full resolution radar data and the software required to process these data are available from the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Research Data Program of the Atmospheric Technology Division. Again, for information on ordering data, click here

Original DLTs (not for distribution):

P70065   16-Apr-95  17:46  16-Apr-95  18:48                  ferry flight; lots of resets.
P70066   17-Apr-95  18:48  18-Apr-95  00:44            first day of ops; good squall line
P70067   19-Apr-95  19:32  19-Apr-95  23:45            
P70068   19-Apr-95  23:49  20-Apr-95  00:07                  short tape; some system problems
P70069   23-Apr-95  17:18  23-Apr-95  18:25                  
P70070   25-Apr-95  21:58  25-Apr-95  22:24                  system test tape;no usable data


EXAbyte Copies of raw data in ELDORA_FIELD format:

F70065A   16-Apr-95  17:46  16-Apr-95  18:48                  ferry flight; lots of resets.
F70066A   17-Apr-95  18:48  17-Apr-95  21:58                  first day of ops; good squall line
F70066B   17-Apr-95  21:59  18-Apr-95  00:44                  first day of ops; good squall line
F70067A   19-Apr-95  19:32  19-Apr-95  21:40                  
F70067B   19-Apr-95  21:41  19-Apr-95  23:45                  
F70068A   19-Apr-95  23:49  20-Apr-95  00:07                  short tape; some system problems
F70069A   23-Apr-95  17:18  23-Apr-95  18:25                  
F70070A   25-Apr-95  21:58  25-Apr-95  22:24                  system test tape;no usable data


First-try DORADE format:

Q70064A   07-Apr-95  19:23  07-Apr-95  20:51                  pre-project test tape
Q70066A   17-Apr-95  18:48  17-Apr-95  23:45                  first day of ops; good squall line

This page prepared and maintained by Bob Rilling, NCAR Research Data Program