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Stereo Camera Cloudiness Map Product Moves to Production
Clouds Optically Gridded by Stereo (COGS) data from ARM’s Southern Great Plains atmospheric observatory are presented for May 4, 2018. The top plot shows the number of cloudy grids as a function of time and height above the ground. Cloud base heights estimated as the 1% of the cloudy grid heights are marked with black…
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Updated Stereo Camera Cloudiness Map Product Released for Evaluation
Clouds Optically Gridded by Stereo (COGS) data from ARM’s Southern Great Plains atmospheric observatory are presented for May 4, 2018. The top plot shows the number of cloudy grids as a function of time and height above the ground. Cloud base heights estimated as the 1% of the cloudy grid heights are marked with black…
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ARM Evaluation Product Delivers 4-Dimensional Map of Cloudiness
This sample plot from the COGS value-added product shows a heat map of cloud depth at 21:29:40 UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) on August 4, 2019, at ARM’s Southern Great Plains atmospheric observatory. A new value-added product (VAP) called Clouds Optically Gridded by Stereo (COGS) provides a four-dimensional (4D) map of cloudiness. This map is generated…
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Value-Added Product Delivers 3D Cloud Positions Based on Stereo Photographs
The figure presents PCCP VAP data from the Southern Great Plains E45 site (Tonkawa, Oklahoma) on March 24, 2020. The upper panel displays the distribution of the reconstructed cloud points by time and height. The colors represent the count of the detected points in the corresponding bin. The bottom left panel is a picture from…