Calibrated Radar Wind Profiler Precipitation Observations and Vertical Velocity Retrievals
Abstract
A radar wind profiler (RWP) data set collected during the 2-year Department of Energy Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Observations and Modeling of the Green Ocean Amazon (GoAmazon2014/5) campaign is used to estimate vertical velocity, designate bulk meteorological echo classification (e.g., convective, stratiform), and provide calibrated radar reflectivity factor Z measurements (calibrated against collocated ground disdrometer and raingauge observations from T3). Additional fields include surface precipitation from rain gauge and ARM InterpolatedSonde streams utilized in the echo classification methods. This dataset follows methods established in Giangrande et al. [2013] and Giangrande et al. [2016] for informing on convective vertical velocities, mass flux and area coverage in Amazon convective cells from ARM RWP systems. If RWP datastreams were unavailable on a given date, files still contain raingauge and InterpolatedSonde information.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- DOE Contract Number:
- DE-AC05-00OR22725
- Product Type:
- Dataset
- Research Org.:
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Archive
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
- Subject:
- 54 Environmental Sciences
- Keywords:
- radar wind profiler (RWP), Vertical Velocity, Radar Reflectivity Factor, Green Ocean Amazon, ARM, DOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1440997
- DOI:
- 10.5439/1440997
Citation Formats
Giangrande, Scott. Calibrated Radar Wind Profiler Precipitation Observations and Vertical Velocity Retrievals. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.5439/1440997.
Giangrande, Scott. Calibrated Radar Wind Profiler Precipitation Observations and Vertical Velocity Retrievals. United States. doi:10.5439/1440997.
Giangrande, Scott. 2018.
"Calibrated Radar Wind Profiler Precipitation Observations and Vertical Velocity Retrievals". United States. doi:10.5439/1440997. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1440997. Pub date:Sat May 26 00:00:00 EDT 2018
@article{osti_1440997,
title = {Calibrated Radar Wind Profiler Precipitation Observations and Vertical Velocity Retrievals},
author = {Giangrande, Scott},
abstractNote = {A radar wind profiler (RWP) data set collected during the 2-year Department of Energy Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Observations and Modeling of the Green Ocean Amazon (GoAmazon2014/5) campaign is used to estimate vertical velocity, designate bulk meteorological echo classification (e.g., convective, stratiform), and provide calibrated radar reflectivity factor Z measurements (calibrated against collocated ground disdrometer and raingauge observations from T3). Additional fields include surface precipitation from rain gauge and ARM InterpolatedSonde streams utilized in the echo classification methods. This dataset follows methods established in Giangrande et al. [2013] and Giangrande et al. [2016] for informing on convective vertical velocities, mass flux and area coverage in Amazon convective cells from ARM RWP systems. If RWP datastreams were unavailable on a given date, files still contain raingauge and InterpolatedSonde information.},
doi = {10.5439/1440997},
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place = {United States},
year = {2018},
month = {5}
}