Scanning ARM Precipitation Radar (SAPR) Velocity Azimuth Display (VAD)

Dataset · Sun Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 2017

DOI:https://doi.org/10.5439/1490987· OSTI ID:1490987

Collis, Scott; Hemedinger, Jason

The Velocity Azimuth Display (VAD, historical term) product contains retrievals of the zonal (north/south) and meridional (east/west) wind speed components, in precipitating systems, as a function of time and height. This product, which uses azimuthal variations in radial air velocity, allows quick insight into wind speed and wind direction in the vicinity of the radar when rainfall or snowfall is present.  VAD data are derived from Corrected Moments in Antenna Coordinates Version 2 (CMAC2) using code within the Python ARM Radar Toolkit (Py-ART), an open-source architecture for interacting with radar data in the Python programming language. 

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Archive; Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Data Center
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
• Contributing Organization: PNNL, BNL, ANL, ORNL
• DOE Contract Number: DE-AC05-00OR22725
• OSTI ID: 1490987
• Availability: ORNL
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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