The GPM Ground Validation KAPX NEXRAD GCPEx dataset was collected during January 9, 2012 to March 12, 2012 for the GPM Cold-season Precipitation Experiment (GCPEx). GCPEx addressed shortcomings in GPM snowfall retrieval algorithm by collecting microphysical properties, associated remote sensing observations, and coordinated model simulations of precipitating snow. This data set were collected toward achieving the overarching goal of GCPEx which is to characterize the ability of multi-frequency active and passive microwave sensors to detect and estimate falling snow. The Next Generation Weather Radar system (NEXRAD) is comprised of 160 Weather Surveillance Radar-1988 Doppler (WSR-88D) sites throughout the United States and select overseas locations. The GPM Ground Validation NEXRAD GCPEx datasets include data files and browse image files. These data files are available as level 2 binary files and level 3 compressed binary files.

The GPM Ground Validation KBOX NEXRAD GCPEx dataset was collected during February 6, 2012 to March 12, 2012 for the GPM Cold-season Precipitation Experiment (GCPEx). GCPEx addressed shortcomings in GPM snowfall retrieval algorithm by collecting microphysical properties, associated remote sensing observations, and coordinated model simulations of precipitating snow. These data sets were collected toward achieving the overarching goal of GCPEx which is to characterize the ability of multi-frequency active and passive microwave sensors to detect and estimate falling snow. The Next Generation Weather Radar system (NEXRAD) is comprised of 160 Weather Surveillance Radar-1988 Doppler (WSR-88D) sites throughout the United States and select overseas locations. The GPM Ground Validation NEXRAD GCPEx data files are available as level 2 binary files and level 3 compressed binary files.

The core of Glenlyon and northeastern Carmacks map areas is underlain by a northwest-trending belt of metasedimentary, metavolcanic and (meta)plutonic rocks of the Yukon-Tanana Terrane. It includes two successions of Carboniferous arc volcanic rocks, associated plutonic suites of Mississippian age, Devonian-Mississippian metaclastic rocks, and their basement complex. To the southwest, Yukon-Tanana Terrane is juxtaposed with the Semenof block a belt of mafic metavolcanic rocks of uncertain terrane affinity along the Needlerock and Big Salmon faults. To the northeast, the Tummel fault zone delineates the contact between Yukon-Tanana and Cassiar terranes. The narrow belt of chert, argillite and greenstone which occurs within the Tummel fault zone probably correlates with the Slide Mountain Terrane. The area is intruded by Early Jurassic and Cretaceous plutons and is dissected by a series of late faults, which results in approximately 56 km of dextral offset of the Yukon-Tanana Terrane.

The GPM Ground Validation C-Band Radar LPVEx datasets include radar reflectivity data from the Kumpula (KUM) dual-polarimetric C-Band Doppler radar in Finland during the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission Light Precipitation Validation Experiment (LPVEx) field campaign. This radar, along with four others, provided reflectivity measurements for light precipitation systems during LPVEx. This field campaign took place around the Gulf of Finland, aiming to provide additional high-latitude, light rainfall measurements for the improvement of GPM satellite precipitation algorithms. The Kumpula C-band Radar data files are available in RAW and UF format, with browse imagery in PNG format from September 01, 2010 through January 31, 2011.

The GPM Ground Validation McGill Vertical Pointing X-Band (VertiX) Radar GCPEx dataset consists of radar reflectivity and Doppler velocity data collected by the Vertically Pointing X-band (VertiX) radar during the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission Cold-season Precipitation Experiment (GCPEx) field campaign in Ontario, Canada during the 2011-2012 winter season. VertiX can detect all precipitation targets and some ice clouds, as well as measure the Doppler velocity of precipitation targets. These measurements contributed to the overarching goal of GCPEx to collect various snowfall data for the improvement of GPM satellite winter precipitation estimates. These data files are available from January 15 through February 29, 2012 in netCDF-3 format with browse imagery available in GIF format.

In 1977 the R.V. Valdivia carried out a survey between Scott Plateau and the Java Trench, during which 1700 km of 24-channel seismic data, and 2550 km of bathymetric, gravity and magnetic data, were recorded; and 31 bottom samples were obtained, in water depths ranging from 2000 m to 5800 m. The Scott Plateau trends NNE and is bounded to the west by the Argo Abyssal Plain and to the north by the Roti Basin. The plateau is a foundered continental block, and lies at an average depth of 2000-3000 m. On the plateau the dominant fault direction is NW to WNW, an ancient strike direction on the Australian continent. The western margin probably formed as a series of NE-trending rifts and NW-trending transforms during Late Jurassic breakup. Canyons cut the western margin, and some of these appear to be fault-bounded. One such fault forms the northern margin of a major NW-trending feature, the Wilson Spur. This appears to be a transform fault and perhaps extends across the abyssal plain as far as the eastern end of the Java Trench. Valdivia seismic profiles suggest that, at the trench, it separates thrust-faulted continental crust to the east from oceanic crust to the west. This could explain the eastern termination of the deep part of the trench. The bathymetric depression of the Roti Basin, which lies southeast of the Java Trench, links the trench to the Timor Trough. The Argo Abyssal Plain slopes gently southward, with water depths ranging from 5000 m near the Java Trench to 5730 m in the south. Oceanic basement varies from smooth to hummocky and irregular, and is overlain by about 400 m of acoustically semi-transparent Late Jurassic and Cretaceous sediments, that is in turn unconformably overlain by 200 m of layered Tertiary sediment. Bottom samples taken by R.V. Valdivia from the outer Scott Plateau have provided new information about seismic sequences. They show that Callovian breakup was preceded by a period of basic volcanism and shallow marine sedimentation, that restricted shallow marine conditions followed in the Late Jurassic, and that bathyal carbonate sedimentation prevailed by the Late Cretaceous (Campanian). Quaternary marls cored on the northern Scott Plateau straddled the Pleistocene-Holocene boundary, and siliceous oozes cored on the southern slope of the Java Trench contain nannofossils which, below a few decimetres, are older than late Pleistocene. The Java Trench cores indicate that the calcite compensation depth was apparently between 5420 and 5700 m in the early or middle Pleistocene, and is above 4950 m now. The Scott Plateau cores indicate that the present calcite compensation depth in the region lies below 3290 m. On the Scott Plateau Holocene sedimentation rates are about 5 cm/I000 years, but in the Java Trench they are much lower. Manganese oxide crusts and nodules were recovered from the Scott Plateau, but their content of valuable metals was low.