Observations of polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs) at the lidar observatory of McMurdo station.

The lidar observatory at Mcmurod, was one of the primary stations of the NDACC network (Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Composition Change) from 2004 to 2010. The lidar observes polar stratospheric clouds at a height between 12 and 26 km typically, from early June until the end of Settember. These PSCs play an important role in the ozone chemistry and promote the depletion of the stratospheric ozone layer. The lidar can detect even very thin PSC layers and can provide important information about their chemical composition. The lidar can be used to study formation and dynamical processes and to provide long term records useful for climate studies.

Simple

Identification info 

 

Identifier 

 
Code
https://antarcticdatacenter.cnr.it/geonetwork/srv/api/records/71fca3c3-0a5e-45a3-801d-f90fa8ea8346  
Status
Deprecated  

  Principal investigator

ISAC-CNR - Marcel Snels (Researcher) 

  Point of contact

ISAC-CNR - Luca di Liberto (Researcher) 
Spatial representation type
Text, table  

Spatial resolution 

 

Equivalent scale 

 
Denominator
5000  
Topic category
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
N
S
E
W


GCMD - Instruments
  • LIDAR
GCMD - Locations
  • ANTARCTICA
GCMD - Platforms
  • GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS
GCMD - Science Keywords
  • POLAR STRATOSPHERIC CLOUDS/NACREOUS
  • ATMOSPHERE
  • LIDAR
  • CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT ASSESSMENT MODELS
  • CLOUD CONDENSATION NUCLEI
  • AEROSOLS
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Resource constraints 

 
Use constraints
License  
Other constraints
Creative-Commons CC BY-NC-SA 4.0  

Associated resource 

 
Title
PNRA 
Association Type
Dependency  
Initiative Type
Project  

Associated resource 

 
Title
Since 29° Italian Expedition to Antarctica 
Date (Validity Begins)
2013-10-01
Date (Validity Expires)
2014-02-28
Edition
29 
Association Type
Dependency  
Initiative Type
Campaign  
Language
English  
Character encoding
UTF8  

Distribution Information 

 
Distribution format
  • ASCII

OnLine resource
Data resource 

Link to external resource

Data quality info 

 
Hierarchy level
Dataset  

Report 

 

Result 

 
Title
COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 
Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Explanation
This data set is conformant with the INSPIRE Implementing Rules for the interoperability of spatial data sets and services 
Pass
true  

Resource lineage 

 
Statement
Raw data are collected routinely by the lidar data acquisition system and successively elaborated and uploaded to the NDACC data base, usually at the end of the winter season. 
Hierarchy level
Dataset  

Reference System Information 

 

Identifier 

 
Code
WGS84 

mdb:MD_Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid / 71fca3c3-0a5e-45a3-801d-f90fa8ea8346

Language
English  
Character encoding
UTF8  

  Point of contact

ISP-CNR - Giulio Verazzo 

Type of resource 

 
Resource scope
Dataset  
Metadata linkage
https://antarcticdatacenter.cnr.it/geonetwork/srv/api/records/71fca3c3-0a5e-45a3-801d-f90fa8ea8346 

Date info (Creation)
2020-10-27T10:23:31
Date info (Revision)
2022-11-11T12:12:51

Metadata standard 

 
Title
ISO 19115-3 
 
 

    Overviews

Spatial extent

N
S
E
W


Keywords

GCMD - Instruments
LIDAR
GCMD - Locations
ANTARCTICA
GCMD - Platforms
GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS
GCMD - Science Keywords
AEROSOLS ATMOSPHERE CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT ASSESSMENT MODELS CLOUD CONDENSATION NUCLEI LIDAR POLAR STRATOSPHERIC CLOUDS/NACREOUS
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Atmospheric conditions

Provided by

Associated resources

Not available