Data for: Attributes of CloudSat identified echo objects

This data set contains a collection of attributes associated with CloudSat identified echo objects (or contiguous regions of radar/dBZ echo) from15 June 2006 till 17 January 2013. CloudSat is a NASA satellite that carries a 94 GHz (3 mm) nadir pointing cloud profiling radar (CPR). CloudSat makes approximately 14 orbits per day with an equator passing time of 0130 and 1330 local time. Echo objects were identified using CloudSat's 2B-GEOPROF product that includes 2D arrays (alongtrack x vertical) of the radar reflectivity factor and gaseous attenuation correction. Also included in the product is a \"cloud mask\" with values ranging between 0 and 40 with higher values indicating a greater likelihood of cloud detection.
An EO was defined as a contiguous region of cloud mask greater than or eaqual to 20, consisting of at least three pixels with their edges and not merely their corners touching. Each echo object (EO) is assigned multiple attributes. The geographic attributes include minimum, me..., Data:

Raw files were downloaded from ftp1.cloudsat.cira.colostate.edu in directory 2B-GEOPROF.R04
Processed files are in netcdf format

Processing:

Data were processed and analyzed using IDL. See CloudSat_code_README.txt for details
The initial processing was done while I was a graduate student at the Univerisity of Miami working on my masters from 2006-2009
Code is available at https://github.com/erileydellaripa/CYGNSS_code

Data file description:

Once the tar.gz file is unpacked, the EO attributes are provided in the EO_masterlistYYYY.nc files, where YYYY corresponds to the different years. I transferred the EO attributes from IDL .save files to netcdf files for sharing. A description of each EO attribute is provide in the README.md and if you do an ncdump -h  in a terminal window.

The attributes are organized in 1D arrays, where the element of each array corresponds to a unique EO and the total size of the array corresponds to the total number of EOs identified.

Data are proces...,