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  - display_name: 'Data Archive : National Snow & Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center '
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      display_name: National Snow & Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center
      identifier: national-snow-ice-data-center-distributed-active-archive-center
      name: National Snow & Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center
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description: 'This data set includes ground-based radar observations carried out at the Fraser Experimental Forest Headquarters, Colorado, USA (39.95 N, 105.9 W), between 17-26 February and 26-30 March 2003. Truck-mounted L- and Ku-band scatterometers were used to collect fully polarimetric backscattering coefficients of snow. The calibrated radar systems measured the amplitude and phase of backscattered signal over a relatively wide bandwidth at L-band (1.1-1.4 GHz) and Ku-band (15.25-15.75 GHz). Backscatter measurements of an open snow pack were collected at three different incidence angles (20, 35, and 50 degrees) several times a day. This data set is part of the NASA Cold Land Processes Field Experiment (CLPX). The NASA CLPX is a multi-sensor, multi-scale experiment that focuses on extending a local-scale understanding of water fluxes, storage, and transformations to regional and global scales. Within a framework of nested study areas in the central Rocky Mountains of the western United States, ranging from 1-ha to 160,000 km2, intensive ground, airborne, and spaceborne observations are collected. Data collection focuses on two seasons: mid-winter, when conditions are generally frozen and dry, and early spring, a transitional period when both frozen and thawed, dry and wet conditions are widespread.'
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display_name: 'CLPX-Ground: Ground-based L and Ku band polarimetric scatterometry'
doi: 10.5067/JWGEFX2FALQR
end_time: 2003-02-26T00:00:00
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identifier: nasa-nsidcdaac-0166
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lat_max: 39.95
lat_min: 39.95
lon_max: -105.9
lon_min: -105.9
name: 'CLPX-Ground: Ground-based L and Ku band polarimetric scatterometry'
native_id: NSIDC-0166
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release_dt: 2003-08-11T00:00:00
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start_time: 2003-02-17T00:00:00
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uri: /dataset/nasa-nsidcdaac-0166
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