GPM GROUND VALIDATION IOWA X-BAND POLARIMETRIC MOBILE DOPPLER WEATHER RADARS IFLOODS V1

Description

The GPM Ground Validation Iowa X-band Polarimetric Mobile Doppler Weather Radars IFloodS dataset was gathered during the IFloodS campaign from April to June 2013 throughout central and northeastern Iowa. The Iowa Flood Studies (IFloodS) was a ground measurement campaign that took place throughout Iowa from May 1 to June 15, 2013. The main goal of IFloodS was to evaluate how well the GPM satellite rainfall data can be used for flood forecasting. Four X-band Polarimetric (XPOL) Mobile Doppler Weather Radars were used to collected high-resolution observations of precipitation. The data consists of reflectivity, Doppler velocity, spectrum width, differential reflectivity, differential phase, copolar correlation coefficient, and sound-to-noise ratios. These data are available in netCDF, and browse image files are available in .png format.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FGPMGV%2FIFLOODS%2FXPOL%2FDATA201
21 Files may be downloaded directly to your workstation from this link https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=gpmxpolifld
21 IFloodS Field Campaign Collection DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/IFLOODS/DATA101
21 GPM Mission Concept http://pmm.nasa.gov/GPM
33 The guide document contains detailed information about the dataset https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/gpmValidation/ifloods/XPOL/doc/gpmxpolifld_dataset.pdf
21 The home page for the project or program which sponsored the dataset https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/field-campaigns/ifloods
21 Instructions for citing GHRC data https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/about-ghrc/citing-ghrc-daac-data
21 Review of the different sources of uncertainty in single polarization radar-based estimates of rainfall http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10712-009-9079-x
21 N/A https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/gpmValidation/ifloods/XPOL/browse/
34 Sample browse image https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/gpmValidation/ifloods/XPOL/browse/XPOL4/2013-05-03/RHI/RHI-Psidp-MXPOL4-5-20130503-0316-09-170.0_RR_30_RGS_30.png

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  • spectral-engineering
  • radar
  • earth-science

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