SMART-R and the DYNAMO/CINDY2011 6-month Extended Observation Period

The Texas A&M Shared Mobile Atmospheric Research and Teaching Radar (SMART-R), a truck-mounted C-band, Doppler radar system, was deployed on Addu Atoll in the Maldives from October 2011 through March 2012 for the Dynamics of the Madden-Julian Oscillation (DYNAMO)/Cooperative Indian Ocean Experiment on Intraseasonal Variability in the Year 2011 (CINDY2011). SMART-R was run continuously during the 6-month EOP to capture statistics on the evolution of convection during multiple MJO initiations. A suite of products was created from the measurements of reflectivity and radial velocity including rain maps, convective/stratiform/anvil echo type partitioning, storm top heights, latent heating and divergence profiles, and cell-based tracked characteristics. This presentation will highlight details of the SMART-R data set and initial results from this time period.