Sience Field
Meteorology and Glaciology => Meteorology in the Antarctic
Monitoring => Meteorology and Glaciology
IPY => Meteorology and Glaciology
| Overview | |
|---|---|
| Title | Antarctic Micro-pulse lidar measurement (Antarctic MPL) |
| Sub-Title | |
| Data Summary | Micro-pulse lidar (MPL, NASA upgraded SESI model) placed in Syowa Station acquires backscatter profiles on a 24-hour operation basis. Laser wavelength: 523.5 nm, Maximum height: 60 km, Range resolution: 30 m, Time resolution: 1 min, Pointing direction: 45 deg slant until January 2007 and vertical since 6 February 2007. Processed data (Level 1.0) and their quick look images are available from NASA MPLNET website at http://pedsc.rois.ac.jp/ja/data. |
| About Observation | |
| Spatial Coverage | |
| Data Location | Syowa Station, Antarctica (69.0S, 39.6E) |
| Observaion Period / Temporal Coverage |
2001 - present |
| Data Period | 2001 - present |
| Observation Photo |
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| Data Details | |
| Data Name | MPL backscatter signal |
| Data Format | Digital data (binary) |
| Data Recording / Acquisition Sampling |
Continuous basis / 1 min average |
| Observation Instruments | Micro-pulse lidar (NASA upgraded SESI model) |
| Sample Data |
One-day plot of normalized relative backscatter profile ( an example of PSC observation on 13 June 2006) |
| Publication | |
| Publication method | Metadata/AMD : Antarctic Micro-Pulse Lidar Measurement Data Archives : Micro-pulse lidar measurement (Antarctic MPL) |
| Data Policy | |
| Data Center (Contact Person) |
Kyoto University & National Institute of Polar Research (Masanori Yabuki & Naohiko Hirasawa) |
| asol_cld_q (at) nipr.ac.jp | |
| Related Organization | NIPR, Kyoto Univ. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; NASA/GSFC http://mplnet.gsfc.nasa.gov/ |
| Scientific Results / Publication |
Shiobara, M., M. Yabuki, and H. Kobayashi, 2003: A polar cloud analysis based on Micro-pulse Lidar measurements at Ny-Alesund, Svalbard and Syowa, Antarctica. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, 28, 1205-1212. Shibata, T., K. Sato, H. Kobayashi, M. Yabuki, and M. Shiobara, 2003: The Antarctic polar stratospheric clouds under the temperature perturbation by non-orographic inertia gravity waves observed by micro pulse lidar at Syowa station. J. Geophys. Res., 108(D3), 4105, doi: 10.1029/2002JD002713. |
| Digital Object Identifier(DOI) | |
| Creator | Masanori Yabuki & Naohiko Hirasawa |
| Publisher | National Institute of Polar Research |