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Bankhead National Forest - RadCLss Met Tower

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Bankhead National Forest - RadCLss Met Tower

Overview

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.

Investigation into specific azimuth and range gate separation over the BNF Met Tower Site to see if RadCLss can differeniate between these close locations

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

In-Situ Locations

SiteLatLonForward AzimuthDistance
M134.34525-87.33842210.70936.909
S434.46451-87.23598207.02720.753
S2034.65401-87.29264280.07214.82
S3034.38501-86.92757145.37133.192
S4034.17932-87.45349210.43858.174
S10.34.34361-87.35027211.99537.629
S13.34.34388-87.35055212.05337.616
S14.34.34333-87.35083212.03637.682
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Read CSAPR-2 Data with xradar and visualize with wradlib

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Extract the lowest sweep

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wradlib visualization

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Overaly the OpenStreetMap on wradlib visualization

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Sector Curvelinear Grid - PPI - Bankhead National Forest

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CV Grid over BNF Tall Tower Site

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