wsacrvptaux (a0)

Feng, Ya-Chien; Lindenmaier, Iosif; Wendler, Tim; Deng, Min; Matthews, Alyssa; Castro, Vagner; Johnson, Karen; Rocque, Marquette

doi:10.5439/1971767

Title: wsacrvptaux (a0)

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ARM's scanning cloud radars are fully coherent dual-frequency, dual-polarization Doppler radars mounted on a common scanning pedestal. Each pedestal includes a Ka-band radar (2kW peak power) and the deployment location determines whether the second radar is a W-band (WSACR; 1.7 kW peak power) or X-band (XSACR; 20 kW peak power). Beamwidths at Ka and W bands are roughly matched at 0.3 degrees. Due to the narrow antenna beamwidth, ARM’s scanning cloud radars use scanning strategies that are unlike typical weather radars. Rather than focusing on plan position indicator, or PPI, scans, the Ka-SACR uses range height indicator, or RHI, scans at numerous azimuths to obtain cloud volume data. Measurements collected with the W-SACR are copolar and cross-polar radar reflectivity, Doppler velocity, spectra width and spectra when not scanning, and linear depolarization ration.

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Feng, Ya-Chien; Lindenmaier, Iosif; Wendler, Tim; Deng, Min; Matthews, Alyssa; Castro, Vagner; Johnson, Karen; Rocque, Marquette

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Publication Date:: Wed Jul 20 04:00:00 UTC 2016

DOE Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725

Research Org.:: Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Archive, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (US); ARM Data Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)

Collaborations:: PNNL, BNL, ANL, ORNL

Subject:: 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; Cloud particle size distribution, Hydrometeor fall velocity, Radar Doppler, Radar polarization, Radar reflectivity

OSTI Identifier:: 1971767

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.5439/1971767

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                    Feng, Ya-Chien, Lindenmaier, Iosif, Wendler, Tim, Deng, Min, Matthews, Alyssa, Castro, Vagner, Johnson, Karen, and Rocque, Marquette. wsacrvptaux (a0).  United States: N. p., 2016. 
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                    Feng, Ya-Chien, Lindenmaier, Iosif, Wendler, Tim, Deng, Min, Matthews, Alyssa, Castro, Vagner, Johnson, Karen, & Rocque, Marquette. wsacrvptaux (a0).  United States.  doi:https://doi.org/10.5439/1971767

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                    Feng, Ya-Chien, Lindenmaier, Iosif, Wendler, Tim, Deng, Min, Matthews, Alyssa, Castro, Vagner, Johnson, Karen, and Rocque, Marquette. 2016.  
"wsacrvptaux (a0)".  United States.  doi:https://doi.org/10.5439/1971767.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1971767. Pub date:Wed Jul 20 04:00:00 UTC 2016

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  title        = {wsacrvptaux (a0)},

  author       = {Feng, Ya-Chien and Lindenmaier, Iosif and Wendler, Tim and Deng, Min and Matthews, Alyssa and Castro, Vagner and Johnson, Karen and Rocque, Marquette},

  abstractNote = {ARM's scanning cloud radars are fully coherent dual-frequency, dual-polarization Doppler radars mounted on a common scanning pedestal. Each pedestal includes a Ka-band radar (2kW peak power) and the deployment location determines whether the second radar is a W-band (WSACR; 1.7 kW peak power) or X-band (XSACR; 20 kW peak power). Beamwidths at Ka and W bands are roughly matched at 0.3 degrees. Due to the narrow antenna beamwidth, ARM’s scanning cloud radars use scanning strategies that are unlike typical weather radars. Rather than focusing on plan position indicator, or PPI, scans, the Ka-SACR uses range height indicator, or RHI, scans at numerous azimuths to obtain cloud volume data. Measurements collected with the W-SACR are copolar and cross-polar radar reflectivity, Doppler velocity, spectra width and spectra when not scanning, and linear depolarization ration.},

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