DQRID : D080421.1
Start DateStart TimeEnd DateEnd Time
04/08/2008000004/21/20081420
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Subject:
NSA/MWRP/C1 - Radiometer in mixed scanning-zenith mode
DataStreams:nsamwrpC1.b1
Description:
After installing the spare radiometer (D080409.2), the data started to be intermittent and 
the software froze several times. To test if the problem was due to the scanning 
procedure used with the other radiometer, the instrument was run with a zenith-only procedure at 
times and with the usual scanning procedure at restart. When restarted with the scanning 
procedure the software had problems, so it was decided to run the spare instrument only 
with the zenith-viewing mode until our instrument comes back.

The quality of the data should be unaffected. The only difference is that only data 
collected at 90 degree angle will be available until our instrument comes back.
Suggestions: 
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)
  • North Latitude(lat)
  • 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)
  • base time in epoch(base_time)
  • Expected root-mean-square error in water vapor density retrieval(waterVaporDensityRmsError)
  • Retrieved liquid water path(liquidWaterPath)
  • -180.0 - +180.0(alt)
  • 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)
  • time_in_seconds_since_volume_start(time)
  • 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)
  • Retrieved cloud liquid water content(liquidWaterContent)
  • Derived virtual temperature(virtualTemperature)
  • Height(height)
  • Total precipitable water vapor, from microwave radiometer(totalPrecipitableWater)
  • Time offset from base_time(time_offset)
  • 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)
  • lon(lon)
  • 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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