DQRID : D150605.1
Start DateStart TimeEnd DateEnd Time
05/21/2015170405/29/20152132
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Subject:
SGP/XSAPR/I5 - Data Quality Impacted
DataStreams:sgpxsaprppiI5.00, sgpxsaprvptI5.00, sgpxsaprhsrhiI5.00
Description:
The XSAPR came back up for a short period of time.  Radar was not properly calibrated and 
suffered from other problems noted below.

Differential reflectivity values were all greater than 4 dB
Correlation Coefficient values were all below acceptable levels (most below 0.8)
PhiDp values were noisy and do not appear to increase with range
Specific differential reflectivity is incorrectly calculated
Elevated background noise in the reflectivity
Suggestions: 
Use with caution
Measurements:sgpxsaprvptI5.00:
  • Differential reflectivity, clutter filtered(diff_reflectivity)
  • Unfiltered reflectivity(reflectivity_unf)
  • Specific differential phase(diff_phase)
  • Differential propagation phase shift(dp_phase_shift)
  • Lag-0 co-polar correlation coefficient, clutter filtered(copol_coeff)
  • Attenuation corrected differential reflectivity(diff_reflectivity_corr)
  • Signal quality index(sig_qual_index)
  • reflectivity(reflectivity)
  • Attenuation corrected reflectivity(reflectivity_corr)
  • Doppler spectral width, clutter filtered(doppler_spectral_width)
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sgpxsaprhsrhiI5.00:
  • Specific differential phase(diff_phase)
  • reflectivity(reflectivity)
  • Unfiltered reflectivity(reflectivity_unf)
  • Attenuation corrected differential reflectivity(diff_reflectivity_corr)
  • Differential propagation phase shift(dp_phase_shift)
  • Doppler spectral width, clutter filtered(doppler_spectral_width)
  • Attenuation corrected reflectivity(reflectivity_corr)
  • Lag-0 co-polar correlation coefficient, clutter filtered(copol_coeff)
  • Differential reflectivity, clutter filtered(diff_reflectivity)
  • Signal quality index(sig_qual_index)
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sgpxsaprppiI5.00:
  • Attenuation corrected differential reflectivity(diff_reflectivity_corr)
  • Differential propagation phase shift(dp_phase_shift)
  • Unfiltered reflectivity(reflectivity_unf)
  • Lag-0 co-polar correlation coefficient, clutter filtered(copol_coeff)
  • Doppler spectral width, clutter filtered(doppler_spectral_width)
  • Differential reflectivity, clutter filtered(diff_reflectivity)
  • Attenuation corrected reflectivity(reflectivity_corr)
  • Signal quality index(sig_qual_index)
  • reflectivity(reflectivity)
  • Specific differential phase(diff_phase)
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