Meteorological observations and system performance from the nasa D3R's first 5 years

V Chandrasekar,David Wolff,Walter Petersen,Mohit Kumar,Robert M Beauchamp,Mathew Schwaller,Shashank Joshil,Manuel Vega,Haonan Chen

doi:10.1109/igarss.2017.8127562

Meteorological observations and system performance from the nasa D3R's first 5 years

V Chandrasekar, David Wolff + Show 7 more

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https://doi.org/10.1109/igarss.2017.8127562

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Publication Date: Jul 1, 2017

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Affiliation: Colorado State University, Wallops Flight Facility, Marshall Space Flight Center, Goddard Space Flight Center

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The NASA dual-frequency, dual-polarization, Doppler radar (D3R) [1] was conceived and developed to support ground validation (GV) operations of the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission [2]. The D3R operates in the same frequencies bands, Ku- and Ka-band, as GPM's dual-frequency precipitation radar enabling direct comparisons of microphysical observations of precipitation. The D3R radar is shown in Figure 1. To support the GPM GV mission, D3R substantively participated in four field campaigns in North America with diverse geographic features covering both winter and summer conditions.

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