Forward-Looking Digital Camera Imagery

During GOTHAAM, the NSF/NCAR C-130 (Tail Number N130AR) flew a forward looking digital camera for in-flight video capture. Individual photo jpeg images were captured once per second during flights. Images taken after dark have been stripped from this archive. The remaining images have been combined into hour long tarfiles running from zero minutes zero seconds (or the start time of the first file) to 23 minutes 59 seconds (or the end time of the last file) after each hour. Note that the first and last tarfile for each flight will contain less than a full hour of imagery. Directory files returned with each order give the contents of each corresponding tar file.

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  2025-07-22T00:00:00Z
    End:  2025-08-28T23:59:59Z

Keywords

Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 2025-07-22T00:00:00Z
Temporal Range End 2025-08-28T23:59:59Z
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat 45.00000
Bounding Box South Lat 35.00000
Bounding Box West Long -80.00000
Bounding Box East Long -70.00000
Spatial Representation N/A
Spatial Resolution N/A
Related Links

630.010 : is a companion to dataset 630.009

630.008 : is a companion to dataset 630.009
Additional Information N/A
Resource Format OBSOLETE ASCII Data File
ASCII: ASCII Text (text/plain)
Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) in tar archive
Standardized Resource Format ASCII
Image
Asset Size 19932 MB
Legal Constraints

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Access Constraints none
Software Implementation Language N/A

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Resource Support Organization NSF NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory ROR icon
Distributor NSF NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory ROR icon

Metadata Contact Name EOL Data Support
Metadata Contact Email datahelp@eol.ucar.edu
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Author NSF/NCAR C-130 Team
Publisher NSF NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory ROR icon

Publication Date 2025-09-24T21:28:53
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.26023/6CMX-HRT9-1X0P
Alternate Identifier 630.009
Resource Version 1.0
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2026-09-24T20:01:21Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.eol::630.009
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation NSF/NCAR C-130 Team. (2025). Forward-Looking Digital Camera Imagery. 1.0. NSF NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.26023/6CMX-HRT9-1X0P. Accessed 24 September 2026.

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