| id | field name | definition |
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| 0 | starttime |
| binary time | size: 12 |
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Start date and time of the SCA profile covered by the present DSR. This is the centroid time of the first measurement of the profile.
unit: "s since 2000-01-01"
value: float(./days) * 86400 + float(./seconds) + float(./microseconds) / 1000000
| binary record | size: 12 |
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ENVISAT binary datetime
| id | field name | definition |
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| 0 | days |
| binary int32 | size: 4 |
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days since January 1st, 2000 (may be negative)
unit: "days since 2000-01-01"
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| 1 | seconds |
| binary uint32 | size: 4 |
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seconds since start of day
unit: "s"
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| 2 | microseconds |
| binary uint32 | size: 4 |
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microseconds since start of second
unit: "1e-6 s"
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| 1 | bin1clear |
| binary uint8 | size: 1 |
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SCA QC flag about processed data: 1 if the first matching bin is clear; 0 else
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| 2 | firstmatchingbin |
| binary uint8 | size: 1 |
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Index of the first matching bin
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| 3 | profile_pcd_bins |
| binary array[24] | size: 600 |
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| binary record | size: 25 |
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Structure containing variances of SCA products bin per bin
| id | field name | definition |
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| 0 | backscatter_variance |
| binary double | size: 8 |
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Variance of the backscatter coefficient retrieved by the SCA in this bin
unit: "m^-2 sr^-2"
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| 1 | extinction_variance |
| binary double | size: 8 |
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Variance of the extinction coefficient retrieved by the SCA in this bin
unit: "m^-2"
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| 2 | lod_variance |
| binary double | size: 8 |
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Variance of the LOD retrieved by the SCA in this bin.
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| 3 | processing_qc_flag |
| binary int8 | size: 1 |
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QC information about processing (=0)
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| 4 | profile_pcd_mid_bins |
| binary array[23] | size: 736 |
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| binary record | size: 32 |
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Structure containing variances of SCA products as mean over two neighbouring bins
| id | field name | definition |
|---|
| 0 | extinction_variance |
| binary double | size: 8 |
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Variance of the extinction coefficient retrieved by the SCA in these two neighbouring bins
unit: "m^-2"
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| 1 | backscatter_variance |
| binary double | size: 8 |
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Variance of the backscatter coefficient retrieved by the SCA in these two neighbouring bins
unit: "m^-2 sr^-2"
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| 2 | lod_variance |
| binary double | size: 8 |
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Variance of the LOD retrieved by the SCA in these two neighbouring bins
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| 3 | ber_variance |
| binary double | size: 8 |
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Variance of the BER retrieved by the SCA in these two neighbouring bins
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