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Bankhead National Forest - SACR RHI Investigation

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Bankhead National Forest - SACR RHI Investigation

Overview

As a part of standard quality control procedures for ARM radars, one system is typically matched to another for cross-comparison of specific parameters (e.g. reflectivity, differential reflectivity, etc).

As a standard procedure for the Ka-band Scanning Arm Cloud Radar (Ka-SACR), columns from the range height indictator (RHI) scans over the Ka-band Zenith Radar (KAZR) are extracted for comparison.

Investigation into the column extraction from a RHI scan has been requested.

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

BNF Site Locations

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M134.34525-87.33842
S434.46451-87.23598
S2034.65401-87.29264
S3034.38501-86.92757
S4034.17932-87.45349
S10.34.34361-87.35027
S13.34.34388-87.35055
S14.34.34333-87.35083

## 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 Functions

Read the Ka-SACR Data with xradar

Initial Look at the Data

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Convert from xradar to BNF Display

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Column Extraction

Single Column - PPI

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All PPI Scans

CPU times: user 1min 3s, sys: 3.07 s, total: 1min 6s
Wall time: 1min 7s
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Single Column - RHI

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All RHI Columns

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Merged PPI + RHI Column Extraction

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