University of Canterbury's Vaisala CL51 Ceilometer at Macquarie Island 2016-2018

• Other Authors: ALEXANDER, SIMON (hasPrincipalInvestigator), ALEXANDER, SIMON (processor), MCDONALD, ADRIAN (hasPrincipalInvestigator), Australian Antarctic Data Centre (publisher)
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Australian Antarctic Data Centre
• Subjects: climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere; CLOUD BASE HEIGHT; EARTH SCIENCE; ATMOSPHERE; CLOUDS; CLOUD PROPERTIES; EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR PROFILES > VERTICALLY RESOLVED BACKSCATTER LIGHT; VAISALA CL51; CLOUD BACKSCATTER; CEILOMETERS; VCEIL > Vaisala Ceilometer; FIXED OBSERVATION STATIONS; OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > MACQUARIE ISLAND; GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR; Southern Ocean; Macquarie Island
• Online Access: https://researchdata.edu.au/university-canterburys-vaisala-2016-2018/1426022; https://doi.org/10.26179/5d91835e2ccc3; https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/AAS_4292_Macquarie_Ceilometer; http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-617536

University of Canterbury's ceilometer data collected at Macquarie Island 2016-2018, Vaisala CL51. Hourly netCDF format data files containing the raw backscattered signal from the ceilometer, along with the Vaisala-derived cloud base heights and detection status. Data collected on a Vaisala CL51 ceilometer located inside the Met enclosure supplied by the University of Canterbury. Resolution: 10m vertically x 6 seconds. Time period: 02 April 2016 – 13 March 2018 All times in UT (Universal Time) Data converted into netCDF files by Peter Kuma, University of Canterbury.