edu.ucar.opensky::articles:19028 UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact 2025-12-26T15:01:07.045290 ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data ISO 19115-2:2009(E) https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d7js9s56 MAPR wind profiler observations of tropical storms for the Clouds and Precipitation Study (CPS) Project 2009-10-01T00:00:00Z publication https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d7js9s56 Brown, William O.J. author Albrecht, B. author Cohn, Stephen A. author Donaher, S. author UCAR/NCAR - Library publisher The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) operated an Integrated Sounding System (ISS) in Miami, Florida, for the CPS (Clouds and Precipitation Study) in late summer 2008. The study, being lead by PIs from the University of Miami, used a variety of vertically pointing radars and disdrometers to examine tropical precipitating clouds. The NCAR ISS used the MAPR (Mulitple Antenna Profiling Radar), a highly modified 915 MHz wind profiler capable of making very rapid wind measurements using spaced antenna techniques. The ISS also included a CL-31 ceilometer, GPS radiosonde sounding system and a surface meteorology station. During the course of the two month study, rain bands from four named tropical storms as well as many smaller storms and squalls, passed over the site. Examples of observations from the ISS will be presented, including the rapid variations in wind and precip seen by MAPR as the rain bands and their associated wind gusts passed over the radar. UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact PDF Text theme Resource Type 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z publication Copyright 2009 the Organizing Committee of the 8th International Symposium on Tropospheric Profiling None eng geoscientificInformation