SPURS-2 shipboard X-band radar backscatter images for the 2016 E. Tropical Pacific field campaign

Description

The SPURS-2 X-band marine navigation radar image dataset was collected from the ship during both the 2016 and 2017 cruises. The dataset consists of screenshots of rain echoes captured directly from the science-use X-band marine navigation radar. Raw data could not be saved. The screenshots show qualitative (uncalibrated) echoes of backscatter from rain. For full details on the screenshots, how they should be used, and what they show about rainfall, please refer to our publication: Thompson, E.J., W.E. Asher, A.T. Jessup, and K. Drushka. 2019. High-Resolution Rain Maps from an X-band Marine Radar and Their Use in Understanding Ocean Freshening. Oceanography 32(2):58–65, https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2019.213 . The SPURS (Salinity Processes in the Upper Ocean Regional Study) project is a NASA-funded oceanographic process study and associated field program that aims to elucidate key mechanisms responsible for near-surface salinity variations in the oceans.

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Name Format Description Link
21 Browse granule search results in Earthdata Search https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/granules?p=C2931233351-POCLOUD
21 Project Website for SPURS http://spurs.jpl.nasa.gov/
22 Thumbnail https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/Podaac/thumbnails/SPURS2_MOORING_PICO.jpg
21 Data Use and Citation Policy https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/CitingPODAAC
21 HTTPS endpoint for data browse and download https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/virtual-directory/collections/C2931233351-POCLOUD
33 SPURS-2 Data Report https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/insitu/open/L2/spurs2/docs/DataDocumentation/SPURS-2_Data_Report.pdf
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FSPUR2-XBIMG
33 Cruise Reports https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/insitu/open/L2/spurs2/docs/CruiseReports/SPURS2-2016-Cruise-Report.pdf
33 Cruise Reports https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/insitu/open/L2/spurs2/docs/CruiseReports/SPURS2-2017-cruise-report-v1.pdf
33 Cruise Reports https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/insitu/open/L2/spurs2/docs/CruiseReports/SPURS2-2017-cruise-report-v1.pdf

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  • precipitation
  • oceans
  • earth-science

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