GPM Ground Validation High Altitude Imaging Wind and Rain Airborne Profiler (HIWRAP) OLYMPEX V1a

Description

The GPM Ground Validation High-Altitude Imaging Wind and Rain Airborne Profiler (HIWRAP) OLYMPEX dataset consists of Doppler velocity and reflectivity profiles collected by the High-Altitude Imaging Wind and Rain Airborne Profiler (HIWRAP) onboard the NASA ER-2 high-altitude research aircraft during the Global Precipitation Measurement mission (GPM) Ground Validation Olympic Mountains Experiment (OLYMPEX). The OLYMPEX field campaign took place between November 2015 and January 2016, with additional ground sampling continuing through February 2016, on the Olympic Peninsula in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. The purpose of the campaign was to provide ground-validation data for the measurements taken by instrumentation aboard the GPM Core Observatory satellite. HIWRAP is a Doppler radar that combines conical scan mode measurements at two different frequency bands (Ka- and Ku-band) and two different incidence angles (30 and 40 degrees) to obtain profiles of wind and rain. These Level 1B HIWRAP data files are available from November 10 through December 12, 2015 in netCDF-3 format.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 Development of the NASA High-Altitude Imaging Wind and Rain Airborne Profiler https://doi.org/10.1109/AERO.2011.5747415
21 Characteristics of Deep Tropical and Subtropical Convection from Nadir-Viewing High-Altitude Airborne Doppler Radar http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2009JAS3132.1
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FGPMGV%2FOLYMPEX%2FHIWRAP%2FDATA101
21 The Olympic Mountains Experiment (OLYMPEX) https://dx.doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0182.1
21 OLYMPEX Field Campaign Project Home Page https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/field-campaigns/olympex
21 OLYMPEX Field Campaign Micro Article https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/micro-articles/olympic-mountains-experiment-olympex
21 Files may be downloaded directly to your workstation from this link https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=gpmhiwrapolyx
21 HIWRAP Instrument Description https://har.gsfc.nasa.gov/index.php?section=13
21 OLYMPEX Field Campaign Collection DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/OLYMPEX/DATA101
21 University of Washington OLYMPEX Project Website http://olympex.atmos.washington.edu/
33 The guide document contains detailed information about the dataset https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/gpmValidation/olympex/HIWRAP/doc/gpmhiwrapolyx_dataset.pdf
21 The NASA High-Altitude Imaging Wind and Rain Airborne Profiler https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2015.2456501
21 Properties of light stratiform rain derived from 10- and 94-GHz airborne Doppler radars measurements https://doi.org/10.1029/2006JD008144
21 Instructions for citing GHRC data https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/about-ghrc/citing-ghrc-daac-data
21 NASA Armstrong Fact Sheet: ER-2 High-Altitude Airborne Science Aircraft https://www.nasa.gov/centers/armstrong/news/FactSheets/FS-046-DFRC.html

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  • infrared-wavelengths
  • spectral-engineering
  • radar
  • earth-science

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