HD(CP)2 long term observations, radar reflectivity factor data of Weather Radar, S-Band (no. 00), by Supersite BCO, data version 00

S-Band Doppler Radar Reflectivity Barbados

Access

To get a year dataset please use one of the links below to download the wget script:
2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2016,

Dataset Author

Ieda Pscheidt, pscheidt@uni-bonn.de, Institution: Data owned by Max Plank Institute for Meteorology, provided to HD(CP)2 by Meteorological Institute, University of Bonn

Description

S-Band Doppler radar reflectivity

Limitations: none
Provenance: 'Barbados S-Band Doppler Radar, Original Data by Max Plank Institute for Meteorology, transferred from spherical polar to geographical coordinates and put into netCDF format by Meteorological Institute, University of Bonn'
Comments: The time resolution might not be the same for all netCDF files

Instrument 1

Source: S-Band Doppler Radar
Descriptive Instrument location: Barbados

Global information

PID: de.koeln.rrzk/amd.tna.sups/bco.wrs00.l2.dbz
Project: HD(CP)2
Level: 2
Updated version: 00
File format: NETCDF4
Convention: CF-1.6 where applicable
Average File Size Uncompressed: 250 Mb
File name: sups_bco_wrs00_l2_dbz_v[VV]_[YYYYMMDDhhmmss].nc
Start: 2008-11-11
End: 2016-11-22

Variables

Name	Dimension	CF standard_name	long_name	Unit
dbz	time, y, x	equivalent_reflectivity_factor	equivalent_reflectivity_factor	dBZ

Institution

Data owned by Max Plank Institute for Meteorology, provided to HD(CP)2 by Meteorological Institute, University of Bonn

Contact Person(s)

Ieda Pscheidt (pscheidt@uni-bonn.de)

Cathy Hohenegger (cathy.hohenegger@mpimet.mpg.de)

References

Licence

For non-commercial use only. This data is subject to the HD(CP)2/SAMD data policy to be found at https://doi.org/10.25592/uhhfdm.9823 and in the HD(CP)2/SAMD Observation Data Product Standard https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1741363 .