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Ka-Band ARM Zenith Radar Product Resumes for 2 Sites
This set of plots illustrates the KAZRARSCL product. From top to bottom are time-versus-height plots of cloud boundaries, best-estimate hydrometeor reflectivity, and dealiased mean Doppler velocity for a sample date at Oliktok Point, Alaska. The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility has resumed production of the Ka-Band ARM Zenith Radar Active Remote Sensing of CLouds…
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New, Improved Algorithm for Retrieving Liquid Water Path Now Available at the ARM Data Archive
The MWRRET product uses an improved retrieval technique and a method to identify and remove biases from the data to greatly improve the retrieved LWP (blue). It also performs so-called physical retrievals at each radiosonde launch time (black dots)—physical retrievals are the best possible retrieval that can be performed. The total amount of liquid water…