The microwave radiometer 3-channel (MWR3C) provides time-series measurements of brightness temperatures from three channels centered at 23.834, 30, and 89 GHz. These three channels are sensitive to the presence of liquid water and precipitable water vapor.
MWR3C
mwr3c > Microwave Radiometer, 3 ChannelInstrument Type(s) > Baseline • Guest
Locations
- Fixed
- AMF1
- AMF2
- AMF3
Active Instrument Locations
| Facility Name | Instrument Start Date |
|---|---|
| Oliktok Point, Alaska; AMF3 | 2013-10-01 |
| Gunnison, CO; AMF2 (main site for SAIL) | 2021-09-01 |
| Graciosa Island, Azores, Portugal | 2014-02-25 |
| Central Facility, Lamont, OK | 2011-10-01 |
| Houston, TX; AMF1 (main site for TRACER) | 2021-04-14 |
| Medford, OK (Extended) | 2016-06-29 |
Related Publications
2021
Cadeddu MP. 2021. Microwave Radiometer – 3-Channel (MWR3C) Instrumen tHandbook. Ed. by Robert Stafford, ARM user facility. DOE/SC-ARM/TR-108.
Creamean J, G de Boer, H Telg, F Mei, D Dexheimer, M Shupe, A Solomon, and A McComiskey. 2021. "Assessing the vertical structure of Arctic aerosols using balloon-borne measurements." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 21(3), 10.5194/acp-21-1737-2021.
Research Highlight
2020
Wu P, X Dong, and B Xi. 2020. "A Climatology of Marine Boundary Layer Cloud and Drizzle Properties Derived from Ground-Based Observations over the Azores." Journal of Climate, 33(23), 10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0272.1.
Matrosov S, A Ryzhkov, M Maahn, and G Boer. 2020. "Hydrometeor shape variability in snowfall as retrieved from polarimetric radar measurements." Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 59(9), 10.1175/JAMC-D-20-0052.1.
Research Highlight
Zhang D, L Riihimaki, KL Gaustad, and DD Turner. 2020. MWRRETV2 Value-Added Product Report: The Retrieval of Liquid Water Path and Precipitable Water Vapor from Microwave Radiometer – 3-Channel (MWR3C) Data Sets. Ed. by Robert Stafford, ARM user facility. DOE/SC-ARM-TR-245.
Zheng X, S Klein, V Ghate, S Santos, J McGibbon, P Caldwell, P Bogenschutz, W Lin, and M Cadeddu. 2020. "Assessment of Precipitating Marine Stratocumulus Clouds in the E3SMv1 Atmosphere Model: A Case Study from the ARM MAGIC Field Campaign." Monthly Weather Review, 148(8), 10.1175/MWR-D-19-0349.1.
Research Highlight
Cadeddu M, V Ghate, and M Mech. 2020. "Ground-based observations of cloud and drizzle liquid water path in stratocumulus clouds." Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 13(3), 10.5194/amt-13-1485-2020.
Research Highlight
Minnis P, S Sun-Mack, Y Chen, F Chang, C Yost, W Smith, P Heck, R Arduini, S Bedka, Y Yi, G Hong, Z Jin, D Painemal, R Palikonda, B Scarino, D Spangenberg, R Smith, Q Trepte, P Yang, and Y Xie. 2020. "CERES MODIS Cloud Product Retrievals for Edition 4--Part I: Algorithm Changes." IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, , 10.1109/TGRS.2020.3008866. ONLINE.
2019
Zhou X and C Bretherton. 2019. "The Correlation of Mesoscale Humidity Anomalies with Mesoscale Organization of Marine Stratocumulus from Observations over the ARM Eastern North Atlantic Site." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 124(24), 10.1029/2019JD031056.
Kollias P, N Bharadwaj, E Clothiaux, K Lamer, M Oue, J Hardin, B Isom, I Lindenmaier, A Matthews, E Luke, S Giangrande, K Johnson, S Collis, J Comstock, and J Mather. 2019. "The ARM Radar Network: At the Leading-edge of Cloud and Precipitation Observations." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 101(5), 10.1175/BAMS-D-18-0288.1.
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