Weather Radar Data
https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/545.008

Summary
This dataset contains the weather radar (WXR) data collected during the High
Ice Water Content (HIWC) Radar Study project that took place in Fort
Lauderdale, Florida. The radar measurements contained in this dataset have
been processed to remove the instrument properties from the airborne radar
data and thereby produce the best scientific measure of the atmosphere and the
HIWC environment. There are 4 different file types (List, RadProd, bitmap, and
KMZ) containing radar measurements with each file type containing all of the
flights in one file.

Identifiers
 * Local archive identifier: 545.008
 * doi:10.5065/D66H4G6Z
   https://doi.org/10.5065/D66H4G6Z

Versions
  1.0
  2.0: Unified the types of data and single processing methodologies between
the two flight campaigns. Specifically, we reverted to the
industry-standard pulse-pair processing to calculate all radar products
(eg. RRF, Vel, SpectralWidth), and we added our Index of Dispersion
observable and its corresponding Radar-estimated Ice Water Content
(RIWC) products.

Citation
 Harrah, S. 2019. Weather Radar Data. Version 2.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing
 Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.5065/D66H4G6Z Accessed 20 Apr 2024.

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Acknowledgement
In addition to the citation reference and any other acknowledgements,
please acknowledge NCAR/EOL in your publications with text such as:

  Data provided by NCAR/EOL under the sponsorship of
  the National Science Foundation.
  https://data.eol.ucar.edu/

Related projects
 * HIWC-RADAR-2015: High Ice Water Content (HIWC) Radar Study 2015
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project/HIWC-RADAR-2015

Additional information
 * Spatial Type: multiple
 * Frequency: no set schedule
 * Language: English

Categories
 * Aircraft
 * Radar

Platforms
 * NASA DC-8

Instruments
 * Doppler Radar
 * Radar

GCMD Science Keywords
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > UPPER LEVEL WINDS > WIND SPEED
 * EARTH SCIENCE > SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING > RADAR > RADAR REFLECTIVITY
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > WIND DYNAMICS > VERTICAL WIND VELOCITY/SPEED
 * EARTH SCIENCE > SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING > RADAR > DOPPLER VELOCITY
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > UPPER LEVEL WINDS > WIND DIRECTION
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > UPPER LEVEL WINDS > FLIGHT LEVEL WINDS
 * EARTH SCIENCE > SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING > RADAR > MEAN RADIAL VELOCITY
 * EARTH SCIENCE > SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING > PLATFORM CHARACTERISTICS > AIRSPEED/GROUND SPEED
 * EARTH SCIENCE > SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING > RADAR > SPECTRUM WIDTH
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD MICROPHYSICS > CLOUD LIQUID WATER/ICE

Documentation
 * 2015_HIWC_Radar_Flight_Campaign_Radar_Data_Users_Guide.pdf [1142 KiB]
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/file/download/5337894D8A505/2015_HIWC_Radar_Flight_Campaign_Radar_Data_Users_Guide.pdf

Related links
 * homepage: HIWC-RADAR EOL Homepage
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/field_projects/hiwc-radar-study

Temporal coverage
 * Begin datetime: 2015-08-12 00:00:00 
 * End datetime: 2015-08-28 23:59:59 

Spatial coverage
 * Maximum (North) Latitude: 40.00
 * Minimum (South) Latitude: 10.00
 * Minimum (West) Longitude: -140.00
 * Maximum (East) Longitude: -45.00

Primary contact information
 * pointOfContact: EOL Data Support <datahelp@eol.ucar.edu>
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/1

Additional contact information
 * author: Steven Harrah <Steven.D.Harrah@nasa.gov>
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/2328

Alternate metadata formats
 * DataCite: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/545.008?format=datacite
 * ISO/TC 211: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/545.008?format=isotc211