KAZRSHIPCOR

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kazrshipcor > KAZR Ship Motion CorrectionVAP Type(s) > Evaluation

The Ka-band ARM zenith radar (KAZR) Ship Correction (KAZRSHIPCOR) VAP is intended to correct the effect of ship motion on the radar measurements, which are intended to be vertically pointing. KAZRSHIPCOR is provided as an evaluation product for the MAGIC and ACAPEX campaigns.

Reflectivity, spectral width, and signal to noise ratio are corrected to account for the pitch and roll of the ship. Mean Doppler velocity is corrected for pitch and roll, and additionally corrected to reduce the impact of the horizontal wind component and ship heave velocity. The KAZRSHIPCOR data stream provides ancillary QC for each corrected variable. The AQC indicates that a correction was not made. If no correction was possible, due to a lack of ship attitude data, the variable defaults to its uncorrected value.

Purpose

KAZRSHIPCOR is provided as an evaluation product for the MAGIC and ACAPEX campaigns.

Primary Derived Measurements

Locations

Fixed
AMF1
AMF2
AMF3

Data Details

Developed By	Michael Jensen
Contact	Tami Toto
Resource(s)	Data Directory ReadMe
Data format	netcdf
Site	ACX MAG
Content time range	1 October 2012 - 12 February 2015
Attribute accuracy	No formal attribute accuracy tests were conducted
Positional accuracy	No formal positional accuracy tests were conducted
Data Consistency and Completeness	Data set is considered complete for the information presented, as described in the abstract.Users are advised to read the rest of the metadata record carefully for addtional details.
Access Restriction	No access constraints are associated with this data.
Use Restriction	No use constraints are associated with this data.
File naming convention	Standard ARM file naming convention
Directory Organization	MAG has two kazr modes: kazrshipcorge.c1, kazrshipcorhi.c1, ACX has two kazr modes: kazrshipcorge.c1, kazrshipcormd.c1

Contact

Scott Giangrande
Translator
Brookhaven National Laboratory

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