Data Platform |
NCAR S-Pol Radar |
Description |
The NCAR S-band dual-polarized (S-Pol) radar was deployed in the lower western foothills of the Cascade Mountains, at a location with a clear view of the Willamette Valley to the west and the upslope precipitation zone to the east. It was used for long-range weather surveiallance and directing of aircraft into precipitation features, as well as measuring reflectivity, polarimetric, and Doppler velocity structures of precipitation features that developed in the study area. |
Location(s) |
Crawfordsville, OR, Lat: 44.3865, Lon: -122.8548, Elev: 475 m |
Operators |
Jothiram Vivekanandan and James Wilson (NCAR), Project Managers |
Data Format(s) |
Sweep files and netcdf. [Sweep files are actual radar beam data (elevation, azimuth, range gate), whereas the netcdf files are "cartesianized", that is, interpolated to an X-Y-Z grid.] |
Software |
UW Zebra |
Data Location(s) |
Sweep files available from http://www.atd.ucar.edu/rdp/mss_retrieval; locally, sweep files stored in /home/disk/imp1/zeb-improve2-data/spol_ppi_raw and /home/disk/imp1/zeb-improve2-data/spol_rhi_raw, and netcdf files stored in /home/disk/imp1/zeb-improve2-data/spol |