A new precipitation value-added product (VAP) for the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility provides quality-controlled disdrometer measurements of drop size distributions (DSDs), rain rates, and polarimetric radar-equivalent quantities. The Laser Disdrometer VAP for Quality-Controlled Measurements, using PyDSD (LDQUANTS) capitalizes on laser disdrometer measurements from ARM fixed observatories and mobile facility deployments. DSD measurements from…