Adding value to ARM precipitation radar measurements
Authors
Kevin B. Widener — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Scott Matthew Collis — Argonne National Laboratory
Scott Giangrande — Brookhaven National Laboratory
Nitin Bharadwaj — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Category
Instruments
Description
Slices through three-dimensional grids of reflectivity and retrieved wind vectors from the C-POL radar in Darwin.
The procurement of a network of C- and X-band scanning radars has lead to a flow of specialized measurements, which need value-adding to be of use to a wider cross-section of the ASR and broader modeling community. This presentation will outline the plans and systems being implemented in order to retrieve geophysical parameters from multiple sensors in a three-dimensional domain over the ARM sites. A particular focus will be on parameters highlighted in recent white papers by the Science and Infrastructure Steering Committee, specifically vertical velocity and quantitative precipitation estimates. Example algorithms will be highlighted and first results presented.
