Airborne Precipitation Radar 3rd Generation (APR-3) CPEX

The Airborne Precipitation Radar 3rd Generation (APR-3) CPEX dataset consists of radar reflectivity, Doppler velocity for all bands, linear depolarization ratio Ku-band, and normalized radar cross section measurements at Ka- and Ku- bands data collected by the APR-3 onboard the NASA DC-8 aircraft. These data were gathered during the Convective Processes Experiment (CPEX) aircraft field campaign. CPEX collected data to help answer questions about convective storm initiation, organization, growth, and dissipation in the North Atlantic-Gulf of Mexico-Caribbean Oceanic region during the early summer of 2017. These data files are available from May 27, 2017 through June 24, 2017 in a HDF-5 file, with associated browse imagery in JPG format.

该机载降水雷达第三代（APR-3）CPEX数据集包含了雷达反射率、所有波段的多普勒速度、Ku波段的线性去极化比以及Ka-和Ku-波段的归一化雷达截面测量数据，这些数据由搭载于NASA DC-8飞机上的APR-3雷达收集。这些数据是在2017年夏季早期进行的对流过程实验（CPEX）飞机现场考察期间收集的。CPEX收集数据旨在解答关于北美洲-墨西哥湾-加勒比海地区夏季早期对流风暴的起始、组织、发展和消散等问题。这些数据文件自2017年5月27日起至6月24日止，以HDF-5格式提供，并附有相应的JPG格式的浏览图像。