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MC3E Ideal Conditions

Diagram of ideal conditions for the MC3E campaign.
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The MC3E ideal scenario will capture the life cycle of a storm system.

Centered at the SGP Central Facility, research aircraft will fly above and within the clouds while radar systems scan through the storm from multiple locations. At the same time, additional ground-based instruments will measure surface precipitation and wind speed.

Source: ARM Climate Research Facility

Light Precipitation Evaluation Experiment (LPVEx)

GPM flying over Earth with a data swath visualized.
Thursday, June 2, 2011
The Light Precipitation Evaluation Experiment (LPVEx) took place in the Gulf of Finland in September and October, 2010 and collected microphysical properties, associated remote sensing observations, and coordinated model simulations of high latitude precipitation systems to drive the evaluation and development of precipitation algorithms for current and future satellite platforms. In doing so, LPVEx sought to address the general lack of dedicated ground-validation datasets from the ongoing development of new or improved algorithms for detecting and quantifying high latitude rainfall...
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MC3E Field Campaign

The NPOL instrument, a large radar dish attached to a trailer under a blue sky
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Mid-latitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment The Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment (MC3E) took place from April 22 – June 6, 2011, near Lamont, Oklahoma in the region surrounding the Department of Energy (DOE) Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program Southern Great Plains Central Facility. The experiment was a collaborative effort between the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility and the NASA's Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission Ground Validation (GV) program. The MC3E ideal scenario...
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2nd International Workshop for GPM Ground Validation

Dates
Location
Taipei, Taiwan

Host Agency:
Central Weather Bureau of Taiwan

Meeting Summary:

In 2005 the 2nd International GPM Ground Validation Meeting was hosted by the National Taiwan University at Central Weather Bureau (CWB) in Taipei, Taiwan. The meeting also included a visit to CWB Observation Station in Hualien. The workshop was a great success thanks to the hosts and those who participated.

Mission Affiliation
Ground Validation

2DVD at Egbert, CARE, Canada

Document Description

Presentation of CSU's 2-Dimensional Video Disdrometer for the Canadian CloudSat/CALIPSO Validation Programme

International Ground Validation Research Programme of GPM: Report of 1st International GPM GV Requirements Workshop

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Report of the 1st International GPM GV Requirements Workshop.

GPM Ground Validation: Strategy and Efforts

Document Description

The validation of satellite products is classically defined as a ground-based observing strategy intended to assess whether satellite products meet their stated accuracy requirements and objectives. In the case of the Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission (TRMM), this philosophy was translated to the quasi-continuous operation of four ground radar sites for which TRMM satellite sensor-based and ground-based rainfall products were compared. The findings from these four sites revealed that TRMM products generally met their stated objectives.

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