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Bankhead National Forest - CMAC/RadClss Rain Rates Investigation

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Bankhead National Forest - CMAC/RadClss Rain Rates Investigation

Overview

The Corrected Moments to Antenna Coordinates (CMAC) Value-Added Product (VAP) is designed to provide a quality assured dataset which includes pre-processing and corrections for the significant influence of attenuation in rain, specific differential phase measurements to better account for non-uniform beam filling and anticipated beam blockage, and the anticipated need to de-aliasing Doppler velocities in severe convective cloud contexts

The Extracted Radar Columns and In-Situ Sensors (RadClss) Value-Added Product (VAP) is a dataset containing in-situ ground observations matched to CSAPR-2 radar columns above ARM Mobile Facility (AMF-3) supplemental sites of interest.

Together, these products allow for the investigation of radar derived rain rates within BNF.

Prerequisites

ConceptsImportanceNotes
Intro to CartopyNecessary
Understanding of NetCDFHelpfulFamiliarity with metadata structure
GeoPandasNecessaryFamiliarity with Geospatial Plotting
Py-ART / Radar FoundationsNecessaryBasics of Weather Radar
  • Time to learn: 30 minutes

Current List of Supported RadCLss Sites

SiteLatLon
M134.34525-87.33842
S434.46451-87.23598
S2034.65401-87.29264
S3034.38501-86.92757
S4034.17932-87.45349
BNF Mosaic Radar Display
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## You are using the Python ARM Radar Toolkit (Py-ART), an open source
## library for working with weather radar data. Py-ART is partly
## supported by the U.S. Department of Energy as part of the Atmospheric
## Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility, an Office of
## Science user facility.
##
## If you use this software to prepare a publication, please cite:
##
##     JJ Helmus and SM Collis, JORS 2016, doi: 10.5334/jors.119

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Define Processing Variables

['/gpfs/wolf2/arm/atm124/proj-shared/bnf/bnfcsapr2radclssS3.c2/bnfcsapr2radclssS3.c2.20250305.000000.nc', '/gpfs/wolf2/arm/atm124/proj-shared/bnf/bnfcsapr2radclssS3.c2/bnfcsapr2radclssS3.c2.20250304.000000.nc']

Define Functions

RadCLss Corrected Reflectivity Display

<Figure size 1600x1000 with 11 Axes>

Mosaic Display - CMAC Parameters with RadCLss Extracted Column

Create a Daily Mosaic Figure to visualize timeseries

/gpfs/wolf2/arm/atm124/proj-shared/bnf/bnfcsapr2cmacS3.c1/bnfcsapr2cmacS3.c1.20250304.100139.nc
/gpfs/wolf2/arm/atm124/proj-shared/bnf/bnfcsapr2cmacS3.c1/bnfcsapr2cmacS3.c1.20250304.100157.nc
/gpfs/wolf2/arm/atm124/proj-shared/bnf/bnfcsapr2cmacS3.c1/bnfcsapr2cmacS3.c1.20250304.101157.nc
/gpfs/wolf2/arm/atm124/proj-shared/bnf/bnfcsapr2cmacS3.c1/bnfcsapr2cmacS3.c1.20250304.101215.nc
BNF CMAC RadCLss Mosaic GIF

References

Surface Meteorological Instrumentation (MET)

  • Kyrouac, J., Shi, Y., & Tuftedal, M. Surface Meteorological Instrumentation (MET), 2025-03-05 to 2025-03-05, Bankhead National Forest, AL, USA; Long-term Mobile Facility (BNF), Bankhead National Forest, AL, AMF3 (Main Site) (M1). Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) User Facility. Kyrouac et al. (2021)

  • Kyrouac, J., Shi, Y., & Tuftedal, M. Surface Meteorological Instrumentation (MET), 2025-03-05 to 2025-03-05, Bankhead National Forest, AL, USA; Long-term Mobile Facility (BNF), Bankhead National Forest, AL, Supplemental facility at Courtland (S20). Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) User Facility. Kyrouac et al. (2021)

  • Kyrouac, J., Shi, Y., & Tuftedal, M. Surface Meteorological Instrumentation (MET), 2025-03-05 to 2025-03-05, Bankhead National Forest, AL, USA; Long-term Mobile Facility (BNF), Bankhead National Forest, AL, Supplemental facility at Falkville (S30). Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) User Facility. Kyrouac et al. (2021)

  • Kyrouac, J., Shi, Y., & Tuftedal, M. Surface Meteorological Instrumentation (MET), 2025-03-05 to 2025-03-05, Bankhead National Forest, AL, USA; Long-term Mobile Facility (BNF), Bankhead National Forest, AL, Supplemental facility at Double Springs (S40). Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) User Facility. Kyrouac et al. (2021)

Balloon-Borne Sounding System (SONDEWNPN)

  • Keeler, E., Burk, K., & Kyrouac, J. Balloon-Borne Sounding System (SONDEWNPN), 2025-03-05 to 2025-03-05, Bankhead National Forest, AL, USA; Long-term Mobile Facility (BNF), Bankhead National Forest, AL, AMF3 (Main Site) (M1). Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) User Facility. Keeler et al. (2022)

Weighing Bucket Preciptiation Gauge (WBPLUVIO2)

  • Zhu, Z., Wang, D., Jane, M., Cromwell, E., Sturm, M., Irving, K., & Delamere, J. Weighing Bucket Precipitation Gauge (WBPLUVIO2), 2025-03-05 to 2025-03-05, Bankhead National Forest, AL, USA; Long-term Mobile Facility (BNF), Bankhead National Forest, AL, AMF3 (Main Site) (M1). Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) User Facility. Zhu et al. (2016)

Laser Disdrometer Quantities (LDQUANTS)

  • Hardin, J., Giangrande, S., & Zhou, A. Laser Disdrometer Quantities (LDQUANTS), 2025-03-05 to 2025-03-05, Bankhead National Forest, AL, USA; Long-term Mobile Facility (BNF), Bankhead National Forest, AL, AMF3 (Main Site) (M1). Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) User Facility. Hardin et al. (2019)

  • Hardin, J., Giangrande, S., & Zhou, A. Laser Disdrometer Quantities (LDQUANTS), 2025-03-05 to 2025-03-05, Bankhead National Forest, AL, USA; Long-term Mobile Facility (BNF), Bankhead National Forest, AL, Supplemental facility at Falkville (S30). Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) User Facility. Hardin et al. (2019)

References
  1. Kyrouac, J., Shi, Y., & Tuftedal, M. (2021). met.b1. Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Archive, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (US); ARM Data Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). 10.5439/1786358
  2. Keeler, E., Burk, K., & Kyrouac, J. (2022). Balloon-borne sounding system (BBSS), WNPN output data. Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Archive, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (US); ARM Data Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). 10.5439/1595321
  3. Zhu, Z., Wang, D., Jane, M., Cromwell, E., Sturm, M., Irving, K., & Delamere, J. (2016). wbpluvio2.a1. Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Archive, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (US); ARM Data Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). 10.5439/1338194
  4. Hardin, J., Giangrande, S., & Zhou, A. (2019). ldquants. Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Archive, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (US); ARM Data Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). 10.5439/1432694