GPM GROUND VALIDATION NASA S-BAND DUAL POLARIMETRIC (NPOL) DOPPLER RADAR MC3E V1

Description

The GPM Ground Validation NASA S-band Dual Polarimetric (NPOL) Doppler Radar MC3E dataset was collected by the NASA NPOL radar, which was developed by a research team from Wallops Flight Facility, is a fully transportable and self-contained S-band (10 cm), scanning dual-polarimetric, doppler research radar that collected data nearly continuously during the Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment (MC3E) field campaign. The overarching goal was to provide the most complete characterization of convective cloud systems, precipitation, and the environment that has ever been obtained, providing constraints for model cumulus parameterizations and space-based rainfall retrieval algorithms over land that had never before been available. NPOL scanned in high resolution Range Height Indicator (RHI) mode (every 40 sec) and provided measurements of precipitation in liquid, mixed and ice phase. The scanning strategy emphasized vertical structure sampling via RHI and narrow sector-volume data collections. Additional files were processed from the UF files using the Colorado State University (CSU) Hydrometeor Identification Algorithm (HID) providing classification of hydrometeors (e.g. rain, drizzle, hail, ice crystals, wet or dry snow, graupel density). Data was collected from April 11, 2011 through June 3, 2011.

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Name Format Description Link
21 Files may be downloaded directly to your workstation from this link https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=gpmnpolmc3e
34 Sample browse image https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/browse_sample/fieldCampaigns/gpmValidation/mc3e/gpmnpolmc3e/npol1_2011_0427_120000_CZ_sw00_RHI.png
21 MC3E Field Campaign Collection DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/MC3E/DATA101
21 GPM Mission Concept http://pmm.nasa.gov/GPM
33 NPOL Imagery from MC3E https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/gpmValidation/mc3e/NPOL/doc/NPOL_MC3E_Images.pdf
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FGPMGV%2FMC3E%2FNPOL%2FDATA101
34 Sample browse image https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/browse_sample/fieldCampaigns/gpmValidation/mc3e/gpmnpolmc3e/npol1_2011_0427_120015_VR_sw00_PPI.png
10 NPOL MC3E log https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/gpmValidation/mc3e/NPOL/doc/NPOL_MC3E_log.doc
21 The home page for the project or program which sponsored the dataset https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/field-campaigns/mc3e
21 N/A https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/gpmValidation/mc3e/NPOL/browse/
21 The guide document contains detailed information about the dataset http://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/uso/ds_docs/gpmgv/mc3e/gpmnpolmc3e/gpmnpolmc3e_dataset.html
33 MC3E NPOL Scanning https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/gpmValidation/mc3e/NPOL/doc/NPOL_MC3E_scanning_FINAL_0.pdf
21 Instructions for citing GHRC data https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/about-ghrc/citing-ghrc-daac-data
33 NASA Polarimetric Radar (NPOL) Data from MC3E https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/gpmValidation/mc3e/NPOL/doc/MC3E_NPOL_Data_Contents.pdf
21 The CSU Hydrometeor Identification Algorithm (HID) README https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/gpmValidation/mc3e/NPOL/doc/README_HID_mc3e_npol.txt

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  • precipitation
  • atmosphere
  • spectral-engineering
  • radar
  • earth-science

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