X-band Scanning ARM Precipitation Radar (X-SAPR) Instrument Handbook

Widener, K ; Bharadwaj, N

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

DOI  :  10.2172/1053990
RP-ID  :  DOE/SC-ARM/TR-117
PID  :  OSTI ID: 1053990
Others  :  Other: PNNL-21952

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来源: SciTech Connect

【 摘 要 】

The X-band scanning ARM cloud radar (X-SAPR) is a full-hemispherical scanning polarimetric Doppler radar transmitting simultaneously in both H and V polarizations. With a 200 kW magnetron transmitter, this puts 100 kW of transmitted power for each polarization. The receiver for the X-SAPR is a Vaisala Sigmet RVP-900 operating in a coherent-on-receive mode. Three X-SAPRs are deployed around the Southern Great Plains (SGP) Central Facility in a triangular array. A fourth X-SAPR is deployed near Barrow, Alaska on top of the Barrow Arctic Research Center.