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Two airborne Doppler radars deployed on the National Research Council (NRC) Convair 580 aircraft collected data during nine research flights of the WINTRE-MIX field campaign. One of these radars operates at W-band (94.05 GHz) and is called NAW while the other operates at X-band (9.41 GHz) and is called NAX. The two radar systems in combination are called NAWX. This dataset is an enhanced subset of the companion datasets that were published by Nguyen and Wolde. Specifically, the data are separated into legs when the NRC Convair 580 was flying approximately straight and mostly at constant altitude. These are periods when Doppler velocities from the radars are most usable due to relatively stable aircraft attitude. The NAWX dataset described here is also an enhancement relative to the companion datasets in that improvements to beam pointing vectors have been implemented, allowing a more accurate navigation correction of Doppler velocities (i.e., removing aircraft motion from the Doppler velocity data). Additionally, new fields are included in the dataset such as horizontal wind corrected Doppler velocities and quality control masks to mitigate artifacts in the data (e.g., ground clutter).
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WINTRE-MIX: NRC Convair-580 Flight Summaries. Version 1.0
This dataset is comprised of a series of PDF flight summaries that describe the general microphysical characteristics that were recorded along each flight leg for the 9 research flight missions of the WINTRE-MIX NRC Convair-580 aircraft. Each summary includes a written overview of the IOP and orientation of performed flight legs as well as a description of the microphysical characteristics of cloud measured along each transect by the NRC Convair-580. Several figures are provided for each flight leg detailing microphysical parameters such as particle number concentration and mean size distributions measured across these periods. Particle imagery from the 2DS probe is also provided for select periods across all flight legs to demonstrate the cloud composition of the weather systems of focus for each flight. General atmospheric state statistics are also provided in these summaries, as well as any data limitations observed with the parameters provided in each summary.
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- Award ID(s):
- 2114006
- PAR ID:
- 10638342
- Publisher / Repository:
- UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory
- Date Published:
- Format(s):
- Medium: X Size: 9 data files; 1 ancillary/documentation file; 41 MiB Other: PDF: Portable Document Format (application/pdf)
- Size(s):
- 9 data files 1 ancillary/documentation file 41 MiB
- Location:
- (East Bound Longitude: -71.00000 ; North Bound Latitude: 47.00000 ; South Bound Latitude: 43.00000 ; West Bound Longitude: -76.00000 )
- Right(s):
- These data are available to be used subject to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research ("UCAR") terms and conditions.
- Institution:
- University Corporation For Atmospheric Research UCARNational Center For Atmospheric Research NCAREarth Observing Laboratory EOLData Managment And Services DMS
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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