NASA/JPL W-band Aircraft Cloud Radar (ACR)

• The JPL Airborne Cloud Radar was operated in zenith-looking mode from the Cloud Radar Trailer at the CARE site near Barrie, Ontario.
• Data from the ACR will be in netCDF format and will include co- and cross-polarized reflectivity at 94 GHz.
• The vertical resolution of the radar is 120 m, and the beamwidth is 0.8 degrees.
• Vertical profiles are averaged to a temporal resolution of approximately 3 seconds.
• A reference describing the radar is the following:
  • Sadowy G., Coauthors, 1997: The NASA DC-8 airborne cloud radar: Design and preliminary results. Proc. IGARSS 1997, Singapore, IEEE, Vol. 4, 1466–1469.
  • http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?tp=&arnumber=608896&isnumber=13305