ARM radars: status and near-term plans

 

Authors

Kevin B. Widener — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Nitin Bharadwaj — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Karen Lee Johnson — Brookhaven National Laboratory
Scott Matthew Collis — Argonne National Laboratory

Category

Instruments

Description

C-band scanning ARM precipitation radar on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea.
ARM has gone from 5 Ka-band cloud radars to 25 cloud and precipitation radars this year. This poster presents a review of what has been accomplished and what still needs to be done in the near-term to bring the ARM radar network to full operational capacity.