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    • GRIP LIDAR ATMOSPHERIC SENSING EXPERIMENT (LASE) V1

    Metadata Updated: December 6, 2023

    The GRIP Lidar Atmospheric Sensing Experiment (LASE) dataset was collected by NASA's Lidar Atmospheric Sensing Experiment (LASE) system, which is an airborne Differential Absorption Lidar (DIAL) system used to measure water vapor, aerosols, and clouds throughout the troposphere. LASE is onboard the NASA DC-8 aircraft and probes the atmosphere using lasers to transmit light in the 815-nm absorption band of water vapor. Pulses of laser light are fired vertically below the aircraft. A small fraction of the transmitted laser light is reflected from the atmosphere back to the aircraft and collected with a telescope receiver. The received light indicates the amount of water vapor along the path of the laser beam. LASE operated in the Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes (GRIP) experiment with data spanning between August 13, 2010 through September 25, 2010. The major goal was to better understand how tropical storms form and develop into major hurricanes. NASA used the DC-8 aircraft, the WB-57 aircraft and the Global Hawk Unmanned Airborne System (UAS), configured with a suite of in situ and remote sensing instruments that were used to observe and characterize the lifecycle of hurricanes.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Metadata Created Date December 1, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date December 6, 2023

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    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date December 1, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date December 6, 2023
    Publisher NASA/MSFC/GHRC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C1979855347-GHRC_DAAC
    Data First Published 2011-06-02
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2022-05-18
    Category GRIP (HURRICANE), geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
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    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Citation Ismail, Syed, Richard A Ferrare, Jonathan Hair, Amin Nehrir, Susan Kooi, Anthony Notari, Carolyn Butler, Marta Fenn and James Collins.2011. GRIP LIDAR ATMOSPHERIC SENSING EXPERIMENT (LASE) indicate subset used. Dataset available online from the NASA Global Hydrometeorology Resource Center DAAC, Huntsville, Alabama, U.S.A. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GRIP/LASE/DATA201
    Graphic Preview Description N/A
    Graphic Preview File https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/grip/LASE/browse/
    Harvest Object Id 97ebf22f-1cf9-4c13-b441-f5413fb48d97
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.5067/GRIP/LASE/DATA201
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -117.083 12.0 -55.3183 34.7533
    Program Code 026:001
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 45bb5c24f3c54bb522d5acfc4558977be4c405cca62580f8b2476130326a9d2d
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 2010-08-13T16:18:14Z/2010-09-25T17:17:56Z

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