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New Precipitation Radar Data Products Released for 2 ARM Observatories
New precipitation radar data products processed with version 2 of the Corrected Moments in Antenna Coordinates (CMAC) value-added product are now available from the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility. The new X-Band Scanning ARM Precipitation Radar (XSAPR) products are for the North Slope of Alaska (NSA) and Southern Great Plains (SGP) atmospheric observatories. Raw…
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New VAP Released for ARM Precipitation Radars
Raw data from the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s precipitation radars must be corrected for atmospheric phenomena and instrument characteristics (e.g., attenuation, clutter) to retrieve precipitation properties. A new value-added product (VAP)—Corrected Moments in Antenna Coordinates Version 2 (CMAC2)—is a set of algorithms and code that does such corrections, and it also retrieves precipitation quantities…
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Toolkit for ARM Radar Data Previewed at Workshop
In late November, more than 100 radar experts from around the United States gathered at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., to discuss how research radars can address critical science questions over the next 20 years and to identify related capability gaps. During the workshop, Scott Collis, ARM precipitation radar scientist from…