DQRID : D050902.1
Start DateStart TimeEnd DateEnd Time
08/29/2005190009/21/20051804
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Subject:
NSA/MWRP/C1 - Blower assembly failure
DataStreams:nsamwrpC1.b1
Description:
The MWRP had a problem with the ambient temperature sensor situated in the blower 
assembly. This caused corrupted data files and software crashes. The blower assembly was removed 
and sent to the vendor for repair on 9/21, and re-installed on 10/12.
Suggestions: 
Disregard data.
Measurements:nsamwrpC1.b1:
  • radiation_frequency(frequency)
  • Lifting condensation level(liftingCondensationLevel)
  • Interpolated water vapor mixing ratio(waterVaporMixingRatio)
  • Microwave brightness temperature(brightnessTemperature)
  • Interpolated dewpoint temperature(dewpointTemperature)
  • Equilibrium level(equilibriumLevel)
  • Ambient surface absolute temperature(surfaceTemperature)
  • Flag indicating moisture sensor status(wetWindowFlag)
  • Convective available potential energy(cape)
  • Zenith-pointing infrared temperature at 10um(infraredTemperature)
  • Level of free convection(levelFreeConvection)
  • Equilibrium level pressure(equilibriumLevelPres)
  • Level of free convection pressure(levelFreeConvectionPres)
  • Expected root-mean-square error in water vapor density retrieval(waterVaporDensityRmsError)
  • Retrieved liquid water path(liquidWaterPath)
  • Surface pressure at instrument(surfacePressure)
  • Ambient surface relative humidity(surfaceRelativeHumidity)
  • Expected root-mean-square error in liquid water path retrieval using only 23.835
    and 30.0 GHz(liquidWaterPath2RmsError)
  • Internal blackbody reference temperature(blackbodyTemperature)
  • Data quality flags(dataQualityFlags)
  • Expected root-mean-square error in precipitable water retrieval(totalPrecipitableWaterRmsError)
  • Retrieved total precipitable water vapor using only 23.835 and 30.0 GHz(totalPrecipitableWater2)
  • Derived pressure(pressure)
  • Temperature used for calculation(temperature)
  • Cloud base height used during retrieval(cloudBaseHeight)
  • Expected root-mean-square error in liquid water content retrieval(liquidWaterContentRmsError)
  • Derived relative humidity(relativeHumidity)
  • Derived virtual temperature(virtualTemperature)
  • Retrieved cloud liquid water content(liquidWaterContent)
  • Height(height)
  • Total precipitable water vapor, from microwave radiometer(totalPrecipitableWater)
  • Expected root-mean-square error in liquid water path retrieval(liquidWaterPathRmsError)
  • Surface water vapor density at instrument(surfaceWaterVaporDensity)
  • Azimuth of Radar Ray(azimuth)
  • Expected root-mean-square error in precipitable water retrieval using only
    23.835 and 30.0 GHz(totalPrecipitableWater2RmsError)
  • Retrieved water vapor density(waterVaporDensity)
  • Lifting condensation level pressure(liftingCondensationLevelPres)
  • Expected root-mean-square error in temperature retrieval(temperatureRmsError)
  • Beam Elevation Angle(elevation)
  • Retrieved liquid water path using only 23.835 and 30.0 GHz(liquidWaterPath2)
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