Abstract
During the Intensive Observing Period (IOP) of Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere (TOGA) Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment (COARE), two shipborne Doppler radars were deployed within the Intensive Flux Array (IFA) to continuously monitor precipitating cloud systems and to provide measurements of rainfall. The TOGA and MIT radars, were aboard the R/V Xiangyanghong No. 5 and R/V JV Vickers respectively. The archive of radar reflectivity and Doppler data, about 60 gigabytes, provides the primary source for rainfall mapping. The TOGA and MIT radar reflectivity (Z) observations have been calibrated and quality controlled, corrected for attenuation effects, transformed into rainfall rate (R), earth located, gridded and subjected to a stratiform/convective classification algorithm. Brief descriptions of these procedures are presented.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages | 678-680 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| State | Published - 1995 |
| Event | Proceedings of the 1995 27th Conference on Radar Meteorology - Vail, CO, USA Duration: Oct 9 1995 → Oct 13 1995 |
Conference
| Conference | Proceedings of the 1995 27th Conference on Radar Meteorology |
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| City | Vail, CO, USA |
| Period | 10/9/95 → 10/13/95 |