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    • GPM Ground Validation NASA S-Band Dual Polarimetric (NPOL) Doppler Radar Wallops Flight Facility (WFF) V1

    Metadata Updated: December 6, 2023

    The GPM Ground Validation NASA S-Band Dual-Polarimetric (NPOL) Doppler Radar Wallops Flight Facility (WFF) dataset consists of rain rate, reflectivity, Doppler velocity, and other radar measurements obtained from the NPOL doppler radar positioned at the Wallops Flight Facility (WFF) in support of the Global Precipitation Mission (GPM). NPOL was developed by scientists at WFF and is a fully transportable and self-contained S-band (10 cm), scanning dual-polarimetric Doppler research radar that was placed near Newark, Maryland between GPM GV missions. Data files are available from December 6, 2013 thru April 28, 2017 in Universal Format (UF), with browse files in PNG format containing images of corrected radar reflectivity, differential reflectivity, specific differential phase, co-polar correlation, and Doppler velocity images. Data are tarred into daily collections of files and zipped for storage and quick download.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Metadata Created Date December 1, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date December 6, 2023

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    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date December 1, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date December 6, 2023
    Publisher NASA/MSFC/GHRC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C1979639203-GHRC_DAAC
    Data First Published 2018-04-26
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2022-04-28
    Category GPMGV, geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
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    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Citation Wolff, David , David A Marks, Walter A Petersen and Jason Pippit.2018. GPM Ground Validation NASA S-Band Dual Polarimetric (NPOL) Doppler Radar Wallops Flight Facility (WFF) indicate subset used. Dataset available online from the NASA Global Hydrometeorology Resource Center DAAC, Huntsville, Alabama, U.S.A. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/WFF/NPOL/DATA101
    Graphic Preview Description Browse images illustrate the nature and coverage of the data
    Graphic Preview File https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/gpmValidation/relatedProjects/wff/NPOL/browse/
    Harvest Object Id 5b25c249-d5cc-4fd3-b718-c7a66ed4a419
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/WFF/NPOL/DATA101
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -77.1056 36.8989 -73.6272 39.6219
    Program Code 026:001
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 19163138f3444b2a691531ae5562df0b32e83d4bd4c734ee433d2bf3b3c795c7
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 2013-12-06T19:55:38Z/2017-04-28T13:55:03Z

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