GRIP HIGH ALTITUDE IMAGING WIND AND RAIN AIRBORNE PROFILER (HIWRAP) V1

Description

The GRIP High Altitude Imaging Wind and Rain Airborne Profiler (HIWRAP) dataset was collected by the High-Altitude Imaging Wind and Rain Airborne Profiler (HIWRAP), which is a dual-frequency (Ka- and Ku-band) conical scan system, configured with a nadir viewing antenna on the Global Hawk aircraft. The HIWRAP instrument provides calibrated reflectivity and unfolded Doppler velocity. These dual-frequency radar measurements have frequencies similar to that of the GPM. These data are from the Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes (GRIP) experiment from September 16, 2010 through September 24, 2010. The major goal was to better understand how tropical storms form and develop into major hurricanes. NASA used the DC-8 aircraft, the WB-57 aircraft and the Global Hawk Unmanned Airborne System (UAS), configured with a suite of in situ and remote sensing instruments that were used to observe and characterize the lifecycle of hurricanes. HIWRAP flew on the Global Hawk aircraft mainly over the Gulf of Mexico.

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Name Format Description Link
21 High-altitude Imaging Wind and Rain Airborne Profiler (HIWRAP) https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/doc/grip/griphiwrap/HIWRAP_data_grip_v0.docx
21 Velocity-Azimuth Display Analysis of Doppler Velocity for HIWRAP; Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-14-0054.1
21 Wind Retrieval Algorithms for the IWRAP and HIWRAP Airborne Doppler Radars with Applications to Hurricanes; American Meteorological Society Volume 31, Issue 6 (June 2014) http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/JTECH-D-13-00140.1
21 The home page for the project or program which sponsored the dataset https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/field-campaigns/GRIP
21 N/A https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/grip/HIWRAP/browse/
21 Instructions for citing GHRC data https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/about-ghrc/citing-ghrc-daac-data
21 Hurricane Micro Article https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/micro-articles/hurricane
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FGRIP%2FHIWRAP%2FDATA101
21 Files may be downloaded directly to your workstation from this link https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=griphiwrap
16 Sample browse image https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/grip/HIWRAP/browse/flight_2010_0916-0917/grip_hiwrap_kainnerchirp_20100917_033147-041344.gif
21 The guide document contains detailed information about the dataset http://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/uso/ds_docs/grip/griphiwrap/griphiwrap_dataset.html
21 Ensemble Kalman Filter Assimilation of HIWRAP Observations of Hurricane Karl (2010) from the Unmanned Global Hawk Aircraft, Monthly Weather Review, 142, 4559-4580 http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-14-00042.1
21 The NASA High-Altitude Imaging Wind and Rain Airborne Profiler; IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol.54,no.1, pp.298-310, Jan.2016 https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2015.2456501

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  • spectral-engineering
  • radar
  • earth-science

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