Comparison of Millimeter-Wave Cloud Radar Measurements for the Fall 1997 Cloud IOP
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One of the primary objectives of the fall 1997 intensive observation period (IOP) was to intercompare Ka-band (35 GHz) and W-band (95 GHz) cloud radar observations and verify system calibrations. During September 1997, several cloud radars were deployed at the Southern Great Plains (SGP) Cloud and Radiation Testbed (CART) site, including the full time operation 35-GHz CART millimeterwave cloud radar (MMCR) (Moran et al. 1998), the University of Massachusetts (UMass) single antenna 33-GHz/95-GHz Cloud Profiling Radar System (CPRS) (Sekelsky and McIntosh 1995), the 95-GHz Wyoming Cloud Radar (WCR) flown on the University of Wyoming King Air (Galloway et al. 1996), the University of Utah 95-GHz radar and the dual-antenna Pennsylvania State University 94-GHz radar (Clothiaux et al. 1995). In this paper, we discuss several issues relevant to comparison of ground-based radars, including the detection and filtering of insect returns. Preliminary comparisons of ground-based Ka-band radar reflectivity data and comparisons with airborne radar reflectivity measurements are also presented. Polarimetric Filtering of Insect Returns
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