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TRMM - GROUND
RADAR CALIBRATION
PROJECT
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Funded by NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM), this
project seeks to investigate the adequacy of TRMM Precipitation Radar (PR)
for calibrating ground based volume scanning weather radar reflectivity
measurements. The research involves development of an automated scheme
for storm case selection, interpolation of PR and ground-based radar data
to a fixed 3D earth parallel grid centered on the radar site, and statistical
analysis to derive ground-based radar calibration adjustment coefficients.
The current interest is on selected US and international radar sites, though,
the methodology can be extended to any radar site located within the 35
degrees north and south latitudinal extend of the PR coverage.
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