TCSP CLOUD RADAR SYSTEM (CRS) V1

Description

The TCSP Cloud Radar System (CRS) datasets consists of vertically profiled reflectivity and Doppler velocity at aircraft nadir along the flight track. The CRS is a 94 GHz (W-band; 3 mm wavelength) Doppler radar developed for autonomous operation in the NASA ER-2 high-altitude aircraft and for ground-based operation. It provided high-resolution profiles of reflectivity and Doppler velocity in clouds and it has important applications to atmospheric remote sensing studies. The CRS was designed to fly with the Cloud Lidar System (CLS), in the tail cone of an ER-2 superpod. There are two basic modes of operation of the CRS: 1) ER-2 with reflectivity, Doppler, and linear-depolarization measurements, and 2) ground-based with full polarimetric capability. The Tropical Cloud Systems and Processes (TCSP) mission used the ER-2 mode. The TCSP mission collected data for research and documentation of cyclogenesis, the interaction of temperature, humidity, precipitation, wind and air pressure that creates ideal birthing conditions for tropical storms, hurricanes and related phenomena. The goal of this mission was to help us better understand how hurricanes and other tropical storms are formed and intensify.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 The home page for the project or program which sponsored the dataset https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/field-campaigns/TCSP
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FTCSP%2FCRS%2FDATA101
21 Files may be downloaded directly to your workstation from this link https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=tcspcrs
16 Sample browse image https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/tcsp/crs/browse/crs_050715_1005-1041_v1_merge.gif
16 Sample browse image https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/tcsp/crs/browse/crs_050715_0859-0923_v1.gif
21 The guide document contains detailed information about the dataset http://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/uso/ds_docs/tcsp/tcspcrs/tcspcrs_dataset.html
21 UF-IDL guide https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/doc/tcsp/tcspcrs/UF-IDL.guide.txt
33 ASCII File Format Specification for Data Exchange https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/doc/tcsp/tcspcrs/formatspec_2_0.pdf
21 UNIVERSAL FORMAT FOR EDOP DATA https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/doc/tcsp/tcspcrs/CRS-UF.txt
21 N/A https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/tcsp/crs/browse/
21 Instructions for citing GHRC data https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/about-ghrc/citing-ghrc-daac-data
21 Preliminary radar reflectivity dataset measured by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ER-2 Doppler Radar and Cloud Radar System https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/doc/tcsp/tcspcrs/ASCII-README.txt
45 tcspcrs software (TAR) https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/doc/tcsp/tcspcrs/software.tar

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  • spectral-engineering
  • radar
  • earth-science

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