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ARAT_MERL_FSA_DAT

Comment:
This Table contains the ARAT and MERLIN measurments of surface fluxes and fluxes through the whole depth of the boundary layer.
Principal investigator:
Frederique SAID
The fields of the table are:
  1. GRID_ID : The name of the grid where the data was taken.
  2. GRID_ORDER : The number of the station in the grid cell.
  3. OBS_DATE : This column contains the date of the flight in DD-MM-YY.
  4. OBS_TIME_BEG : This column contains the begining time of the average section in HH-MM-SS UTM.
  5. OBS_TIME_END : This column contains the time end of the section average in HH-MM-SS UTM.
  6. AIRCRAFT : This column contains the name of the aircraft ARAT or MERL (MERLIN).
  7. FLIGHT_NUM : This column contains the the flight number.
  8. LEG_NUMBER : This column contains the flight leg number.
  9. SECTION : This column contains the section ID in the flight leg.
  10. LAT_BEG : This column contains the latitude of the begining point of the section.
  11. LAT_END : This column contains the latitude of the end point of the section.
  12. LONG_BEG : This column contains the longitude of the begining point of the section.
  13. LONG_END : This column contains the longitude of the end point of the section.
  14. MEAN_PRESURE : This column contains the mean pressure along the section in hPa.
  15. MEAN_ALT : This column contains the mean altitude/soil in m.
  16. MEAN_TEMP : This column contains the mean temperature along the section in degrees C.
  17. MEAN_MIX_RATIO : This column contains the mean vapor mixing ratio along the section in g/kg.
  18. MEAN_WIND_SPEED : This column contains the mean wind speed along the section in m/s.
  19. MEAN_DIREC_WIND : This column contains the mean of the wind direction along the section in degrees.
  20. MEAN_AIR_AIRCRAFT : This column contains the mean air speed/aircraft in m/s .
  21. MEAN_AIRCRAFT_SOIL : This column contains the mean aircraft speed/soil along the section in m/s.
  22. MEAN_HEADING_NORTH : This column contains the mean aircraft heading/north in degrees.
  23. MEAN_DRIFT_AIRCRAFT : This column contains the aircraft drift in degrees.
  24. POT_TEMP_VARIANCE_TETA : This column contains the potential temperature variance in K2.
  25. TETA_QUALITY_LEVEL : This column contains the TETA quality level.
  26. MIX_RATIO_VARIANCE_R : This column contains the mixing ratio variance in g2/kg2.
  27. R_QUALITY_LEVEL : This column contains the mixing ratio quality level.
  28. LONGI_WIND_VARIANCE_U : This column contains the longitudinal wind variance in m2/s2.
  29. U_QUALITY_LEVEL : This column contains the longitudinal wind quality level.
  30. TRANSV_WIND_VARIANCE_V : This column contains the transversal wind variance in m2/s2.
  31. V_QUALITY_LEVEL : This column contains the transversal winq uality level.
  32. VERTIC_WIND_VARIANCE_W : This column contains the vertical wind variance in m2/s2.
  33. W_QUALITY_LEVEL : This column contains the vertical wind variance quality level.
  34. W_TETA_COVARIANCE : This column contains the W-Teta covariance in Km/s.
  35. W_TETA_QUALITY_LEVEL : This column contains the W-Teata quality level.
  36. W_R_COVARIANCE : This column contains the W-R covariance in (m/s)(g/kg).
  37. W_R_QUALITY_LEVEL : This column contains the W-R quality level.
  38. W_U_COVARIANCE : This column contains the W-U covariance in m2/s2.
  39. W_U_QUALITY_LEVEL : This column contains the W-U quality level.
  40. W_V_COVARIANCE : This column contains the W-V covariance in m2/s2.
  41. W_V_QUALITY_LEVEL : This column contains the W-V quality level.
  42. TETA_R_COVARIANCE : This column contains the Teta-R covariance in K.g/kg .
  43. TETA_R_QUALITY_LEVEL : This column contains the Teta-R quality level.
  44. TETA_U_COVARIANCE : This column contains the Teta-U covariance in K.m/s.
  45. TETA_U_QUALITY_LEVEL : This column contains the Teta-U quality level.
  46. TETA_V_COVARIANCE : This column contains the Teta-V covariance in K.m/s .
  47. TETA_V_QUALITY_LEVEL : This column contains the Teta-V quality level.
  48. R_U_COVARIANCE : This column contains the R-U covariance in (g/kg)(m/s) .
  49. R_U_QUALITY_LEVEL : This column contains the R-U quality level.
  50. R_V_COVARIANCE : This column contains the R-V covariance in (g/kg)(m/s).
  51. R_V_QUALITY_LEVEL : This column contains the R-V quality level.
  52. U_V_COVARIANCE : This column contains the U-V covariance in m2/s2.
  53. U_V_QUALITY_LEVEL : This column contains the U-V quality level.
  54. W_EN_COVARIANCE : This column contains the W-EN covariance in m3/s3 .
  55. CERT_LEVEL : This column contains the certification level for the data : T)est,C)hecked by PI, U)nchecked by PI.
  56. REV_DATE : This column contains the revision date for the data in the format DD-MMM-YY.
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