Black Forest, Germany, WACR-ARSCL Evaluation Products Now Available

 
Published: 30 June 2008

FKB WACR-ARSCL Reflectivity Best Estimate data plot example.

Observations from the 95 GHz W-band ARM Cloud Radar (WACR), Micropulse Lidar, and ceilometer have been combined using the new WACR-Active Remote Sensing of Clouds (WACR-ARSCL) value-added process (VAP) (Kollias and Miller, 2007) to produce cloud boundaries and time-height profiles of cloud location, radar moments, and linear depolarization ratio fields for the ARM Mobile Facility deployment in Heselbach, Germany (3/29/2007 – 1/2/2008). The basic algorithm used in the WACR-ARSCL VAP is similar to that employed by the ARSCL VAP, which is based on 35-GHz Millimeter Cloud Radar observations (Clothiaux et al., 2000).

These data are available as an ARM evaluation product from the ARM Data Archive. Please contact the Archive if you have any login questions.