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CPOL

C-band polarimetric (CPOL) grid level 1b data

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Purpose

CPOL records full-volume scans of the dynamical and microphysical properties of precipitating systems every 10 minutes, within 150 km of Darwin, Australia. The CPOL data contains gridded data that was created from the original radar data by using the Python ARM Radar Toolkit (Py-ART). The work to create this data has been supported by the U.S. Department of Energy Atmospheric Systems Research Program. CPOL recorded observations for 17 years from 1998 to 2017, excluding late 2007 to mid-2009.

Primary Measurements

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Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) | Reviewed March 2025