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

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 Vaisa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Widener, K., Bharadwaj, N.
Other Authors: United States. Department of Energy. Office of Science.
Format: Report
Language:English
Published: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (U.S.) 2012
Subjects:
01 Coal
Lignite
And Peat
58 Geosciences
47 Other Instrumentation
Arctic
Barrow
Alaska
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2172/1053990
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc834425/
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Summary: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.

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