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  • Microwave Radiometer Retrievals VAP Available for New Set of ARM Campaigns

    This Microwave Radiometer Retrievals (MWRRET) quicklook image provides information from the Cloud, Aerosol, and Complex Terrain Interactions (CACTI) field campaign on April 27, 2019. The image shows (a) observed brightness temperatures at 23.8 GHz (blue) and 31.4 GHz (red); (b) retrieved precipitable water vapor from the physical method (blue) and statistical method (green); and (c)…

  • New Ship Navigation Corrections for MAGIC and ACAPEX

    Mean Doppler velocity shown here from the MAGIC deployment on June 26, 2013, from the KAZR copol for a) uncorrected and b) corrected. A new suite of evaluation value-added products (VAPs) is now available for the second ARM Mobile Facility (AMF2) to provide accurate ship location and orientation during ocean deployments and to correct for…

  • Navigation Best Estimate Value-Added Product Released

    The measured pitch of the ship is shown here for the twelfth return trip from Honolulu to Los Angeles, also known as MAGIC Leg 12B. Developed in response to the first ship-based deployment of the second ARM Mobile Facility (AMF2), the Navigation Best Estimate (NAVBE) Value-Added Product (VAP) has been released for evaluation. Meteorological, cloud,…

  • Microwave Radiometer Retrieval Data Available for AMF Sites

    An example plot from the MWRRET VAP for 11/9/2007 at Black Forest, Germany: (top) Brightness temperatures measured by the microwave radiometer (MWR). Orange and blue lines indicate potential measurement spikes due to precipitation; (middle) retrieved precipitable water vapor from the new physical method (blue) and the original statistical method (green); (bottom) retrieved liquid water path…