CANDAC/PEARL DataSet - 0PAL 35 GHz Cloud Radar (MMCR)

• Main Authors: Drummond, James, Hudak, David, Lindenmaier, Andrei
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Cryospheric Information Network 2009
• Subjects: Climatology; Clouds; Ellesmere Island; Monitoring; Precipitations; International Polar Year-Canadian Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Change/The Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory PEARL and the International Arctic Systems for Observing the Atmosphere IASOA; Arctic; Nunavut; Eureka; Climate change; International Polar Year
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5443/1801; https://www.polardata.ca/pdcsearch/?doi_id=1801

The CANDAC 35 GHz vertically pointing Doppler radar (MMCR) was commissioned in September, 2007, as a replaced for a comparable NOAA system that had been operating at Eureka since 2006. The MMCR routinely cycles sequentially through four data acquisition modes devoting about 9 s to each. They include...