VORTEX NOAA WP-3D Radar Data
https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/3.26

Summary
NOAA operated a WP-3D research aricraft during VORTEX. It carries 2 radars: A
non-coherent horizontally scanning lower fuselage radar and a 3 cm wavelength
vertically scanning tail Doppler radar. Both radars are three-axis stabilized.

Identifiers
 * Local archive identifier: 3.26

Citation
 NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL). 2006. VORTEX NOAA WP-3D Radar
 Data. Version 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory.
 https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/3.26 Accessed 24 Apr 2024.

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

Related projects
 * VORTEX: Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment 94
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project/VORTEX

Additional information
 * Spatial Type: point
 * Frequency: criteria
 * Language: English

Categories
 * Aircraft
 * Radar

Platforms
 * Aircraft, NOAA P-3

Instruments
 * Doppler Radar
 * Radar

GCMD Science Keywords
 * EARTH SCIENCE > SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING > RADAR > RADAR REFLECTIVITY
 * EARTH SCIENCE > SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING > RADAR > MEAN RADIAL VELOCITY

Related links
 * homepage: EOL VORTEX 1994 website
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/field_projects/vortex

Temporal coverage
 * Begin datetime: 1994-04-01 00:00:00 
 * End datetime: 1994-06-15 23:59:59 

Spatial coverage
 * Maximum (North) Latitude: 38.00
 * Minimum (South) Latitude: 32.00
 * Minimum (West) Longitude: -102.00
 * Maximum (East) Longitude: -95.00

Primary contact information
 * pointOfContact: Andrew Irv Watson <watson@nssl.noaa.gov>
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/13

Additional contact information
 * originator: NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL)
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/454

Alternate metadata formats
 * DataCite: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/3.26?format=datacite
 * ISO/TC 211: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/3.26?format=isotc211