Datasets / GPM GROUND VALIDATION KINX NEXRAD MC3E V1


GPM GROUND VALIDATION KINX NEXRAD MC3E V1

Published By National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Issued about 9 years ago

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beta

Summary

Type of release
a one-off release of a single dataset

Data Licence
Not Applicable

Content Licence
Creative Commons CCZero

Verification
automatically awarded

Description

The GPM Ground Validation NEXRAD MC3E datasets were collected from six radar sites from April 22, 2011 to June 6, 2011 for the Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment (MC3E) which took place in central Oklahoma. Radar sites include KGLD, KICT, KINX, KTLX, KTWX, KVNX. The Next Generation Weather Radar system (NEXRAD) comprises 159 Weather Surveillance Radar-1988 Doppler (WSR-88D) sites throughout the United States and select overseas locations. The GPM Ground Validation NEXRAD MC3E data files are available as tarred binary files.