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3-Dimensional Cloud Positions Produced for TRACER Campaign
The Point Cloud of Cloud Points value-added product (PCCP VAP) is now available for the 2021–2022 TRacking Aerosol Convection interactions ExpeRiment (TRACER) in the Houston, Texas, area. PCCP enables three-dimensional (3D) representations related to macrophysical cloud features such as cloud-base and cloud-top heights, structure of cloud boundaries, and cloud-level horizontal velocities. PCCP data are retrieved…
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Stereo Camera Cloudiness Map Product Moves to Production
The Clouds Optically Gridded by Stereo value-added product (COGS VAP) is now in production for the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s Southern Great Plains (SGP) atmospheric observatory. COGS provides a four-dimensional (4D) map of cloudiness, which is generated from multiview stereo reconstruction using a ring of stereo cameras at the SGP. The VAP also includes a…
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Updated Stereo Camera Cloudiness Map Product Released for Evaluation
An updated version of the Clouds Optically Gridded by Stereo value-added product (COGS VAP) is now available for evaluation. This improved product, cogs.c1, replaces the previously announced cogspi.c1. It includes not only a four-dimensional (4D) map of cloudiness but also a vertically projected cloud fraction and cloud base height estimate. The map of cloudiness is generated by…
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3-Dimensional Cloud Positions Produced for CACTI Campaign
A data set providing three-dimensional (3D) positions of clouds captured by stereo cameras is now available for the 2018–2019 Cloud, Aerosol, and Complex Terrain Interactions (CACTI) field campaign in Argentina. The Point Cloud of Cloud Points (PCCP) data enable 3D representations related to macrophysical cloud features such as the cloud-base and cloud-top heights, structure of…
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ARM Evaluation Product Delivers 4-Dimensional Map of Cloudiness
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 by multiview stereo reconstruction using a ring of stereo cameras at the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s Southern Great Plains (SGP) atmospheric observatory. The COGS data are particularly useful for studying…