NAMMA NASA POLARIMETRIC DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR (NPOL) V1

Description

The NAMMA NASA Polarimetric Doppler Weather Radar (NPOL) dataset used the NPOL, developed by a research team from Wallops Flight Facility, is a fully transportable and self-contained S-band research radar that collected and operated nearly continuously during NAMMA. Data was collected 19 August through 30 September 2006, at Kawsara, Senegal. Its continuous operation provides a full volume scan every fifteen minutes. Scans may be either 270 Km long range scans or 150 Km range for most high resolution data scans. Products available include real time PPI scans of reflectivities and velocities, and near real time displays of other radar products, including RHI's, CAPPI's, and Polarimetric products. Browse imagery is available for PPI reflectivities. These data files were generated during support of the NASA African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analyses (NAMMA) campaign, a field research investigation sponsored by the Science Mission Directorate of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). This mission was based in the Cape Verde Islands, 350 miles off the coast of Senegal in west Africa. Commencing in August 2006, NASA scientists employed surface observation networks and aircraft to characterize the evolution and structure of African Easterly Waves (AEWs) and Mesoscale Convective Systems over continental western Africa, and their associated impacts on regional water and energy budgets.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 Program: netcdf2ascii.c; This program reads in netCDF Cartesian radar files and creates an ascii formatted file https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/doc/namma/namnpol/netcdf2ascii.c
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FNAMMA%2FNPOL%2FDATA101
21 Files may be downloaded directly to your workstation from this link https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=namnpol
16 Sample browse image https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/namma/Radar-NPOL/browse/2006-08-27/NAMMA_NPOL_060827_2245_dz.gif
33 Overview of NASA Polarimetric Doppler Weather Radar (NPOL) Data Collected in NAMMA https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/doc/namma/namnpol/NPOL_NAMMA_Product_Documentation.pdf
21 Directory where netcdf.h and hdf2netcdf.h are located https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/doc/namma/namnpol/makefile
21 The home page for the project or program which sponsored the dataset https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/field-campaigns/namma
21 N/A https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/namma/Radar-NPOL/browse/
21 Instructions for citing GHRC data https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/about-ghrc/citing-ghrc-daac-data
21 The guide document contains detailed information about the dataset http://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/uso/ds_docs/namma/namnpol/namnpol_dataset.html

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  • spectral-engineering
  • radar
  • earth-science

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