HURRICANE AND SEVERE STORM SENTINEL (HS3) HIGH-ALTITUDE IMAGING WIND AND RAIN AIRBORNE PROFILER (HIWRAP) V1

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The Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3) High-Altitude Imaging Wind and Rain dataset was collected from the High-altitude Imaging Wind and Rain Airborne Profiler (HIWRAP), which is a dual-frequency (Ku- and Ka-band, or approximately 14 and 35 GHz), dual-beam (30 degree and 40 degree incidence angle), conically scanning radar that has been designed for the Global Hawk aircraft during the HS3 campaign. Goals for HS3 included: assessing the relative roles of large-scale environment and storm-scale internal processes; and addressing the controversial role of the Saharan Air Layer (SAL) in tropical storm formation and intensification as well as the role of deep convection in the inner-core region of storms. HIWRAP uses solid state transmitters along with a novel pulse compression scheme that results in a system that is considerably more compact and requires less power than typical radars used for precipitation and wind measurements. By conically scanning at 10-20 rpm, its beams sweeped below the Global Hawk collecting Doppler velocity/reflectivity profiles. The unique HIWRAP sampling and phase correction strategy implemented (frequency diversity Doppler processing technique). HIWRAP's dual-wavelength operation enables it to map full tropospheric winds from cloud and precipitation volume backscatter measurements, derive information about precipitation drop-size distributions, and estimate the ocean surface winds using scatterometry techniques. Winds will be retrieved using a gridding approach similar to well-established ground-based multi-Doppler radar wind analyses. More information can be found at http://har.gsfc.nasa.gov/index.php?section

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5 https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dhs3hiwrap
5 https://ghrc.earthdata.nasa.gov%2Fbrowseui%2F%23pub%2Fhs3hiwrap__1%2Fbrowse%2F2013%2F0925%2FHS3_HIWRAP_20130925_164357-170053_ku-3dvarhorzwind_v01.png
5 https://espo.nasa.gov%2Fmissions%2Fhs3%2F
5 https://ghrc.earthdata.nasa.gov%2Fbrowseui%2F%23pub%2Fhs3hiwrap__1%2Fdocs%2FHS3_HIWRAP_dataset.pdf
5 https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov%2Fopendap%2FfieldCampaigns%2Fhs3%2FHIWRAP%2Fdata%2F
5 https://dx.doi.org%2F10.1109%2FTGRS.2015.2456501
5 https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov%2Fhome%2Fdata-recipes%2Fhs3-hiwrap-radar-reflectivity-profile-quick-view
5 https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov%2Fhome%2Fprojects%2FHS3
5 https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov%2Fhome%2Fmicro-articles%2Fassessing-wind-and-rain-hurricane-ingrid-during-hurricane-and-severe-storm-sentinel
5 https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov%2Fhome%2Fmicro-articles%2Fhurricane
5 https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov%2Fhome%2Fmicro-articles%2Ffield-campaign-hurricane-and-severe-storm-sentinel-hs3
5 https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov%2Fpub%2FfieldCampaigns%2Fhs3%2FHIWRAP%2Fbrowse%2F
5 https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov%2Fhome%2Fabout-ghrc%2Fciting-ghrc-daac-data
5 https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=hs3hiwrap
34 https://ghrc.earthdata.nasa.gov/browseui/#pub/hs3hiwrap__1/browse/2013/0925/HS3_HIWRAP_20130925_164357-170053_ku-3dvarhorzwind_v01.png
5 https://espo.nasa.gov/missions/hs3/
33 https://ghrc.earthdata.nasa.gov/browseui/#pub/hs3hiwrap__1/docs/HS3_HIWRAP_dataset.pdf
5 https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/opendap/fieldCampaigns/hs3/HIWRAP/data/
5 https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2015.2456501
5 https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/data-recipes/hs3-hiwrap-radar-reflectivity-profile-quick-view
5 https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/micro-articles/assessing-wind-and-rain-hurricane-ingrid-during-hurricane-and-severe-storm-sentinel
5 https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/projects/HS3
5 https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/micro-articles/hurricane
5 https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/micro-articles/field-campaign-hurricane-and-severe-storm-sentinel-hs3
5 https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/hs3/HIWRAP/browse/
5 https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/about-ghrc/citing-ghrc-daac-data
0 The metadata's original source. https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C1979869732-GHRC_DAAC.iso19115

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  • earth-science-weather-events-atmosphere-tropical-cyclones
  • earth-science-radar-spectral-engineering-radar-reflectivity
  • earth-science-radar-spectral-engineering-doppler-velocity

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