Reprocessing 30 Years of NASA Goddard's High-altitude Radar Data

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center has been home to four high-altitude airborne Doppler radars over the past 30 years: EDOP (X band), CRS (W band), HIWRAP (Ku/Ka band), and EXRAD (X band). These radars have flown as part of 24 field campaigns on NASA’s ER-2, WB-57, and Global Hawk high-altitude aircraft. The field campaigns focused on a wide variety of targets including tropical deep convection (e.g., the CAMEX series and TRMM-Brazil/LBA), midlatitude deep convection (e.g., MC3E and IPHEx), tropical cyclones (e.g., TCSP and EPOCH), and winter storms (e.g., IMPACTS). During this period, there have been considerable advancements in both data processing techniques and data storage standards. This poster describes the ongoing effort, currently in its first year, to modernize this data archive to enable widespread use of valuable but older data sets. Efforts include reprocessing the data to apply a non-uniform beam-filling correction, a horizontal wind contamination correction, as well as other minor processing improvements. Additionally, the data will be stored in netCDF4 files alongside detailed quick-look images, greatly improving the accessibility of the data.