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

Description

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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Name Format Description Link
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FHS3%2FHIWRAP%2FDATA101
21 Instructions for citing GHRC data https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/about-ghrc/citing-ghrc-daac-data
21 OPeNDAP server dataset access https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/opendap/fieldCampaigns/hs3/HIWRAP/data/
21 HS3 HIWRAP Radar Reflectivity Profile Quick View https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/data-recipes/hs3-hiwrap-radar-reflectivity-profile-quick-view
21 Hurricane Micro Article https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/micro-articles/hurricane
21 Field Campaign: Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3) Micro Article https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/micro-articles/field-campaign-hurricane-and-severe-storm-sentinel-hs3
21 Browse images illustrate the nature and coverage of the data https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/hs3/HIWRAP/browse/
21 Assessing Wind and Rain in Hurricane Ingrid during Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3) Field Campaign https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/micro-articles/assessing-wind-and-rain-hurricane-ingrid-during-hurricane-and-severe-storm-sentinel
21 Files may be downloaded directly to your workstation from this link https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=hs3hiwrap
34 Sample browse image https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/hs3/HIWRAP/browse/2013/0915/HS3_HIWRAP_20130915_kainnerchirp_195621-203046_v02.png
21 NASA Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel mission https://espo.nasa.gov/missions/hs3/
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
21 The home page for the project or program which sponsored the dataset https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/projects/HS3
33 The guide document contains detailed information about the dataset https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/hs3/HIWRAP/doc/HS3_HIWRAP_dataset.pdf

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  • atmosphere
  • weather-events
  • spectral-engineering
  • radar
  • earth-science

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