Reprocessing 30 Years of Deep Convection Data from NASA Goddard's High-altitude Airborne Radars

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 aboard NASA's ER-2, WB-57, and Global Hawk as part of 12 tropical-deep-convection-focused field campaigns, including six that sampled tropical cyclones. During the past 30 years, however, 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 these 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. Ultimately, this reprocessing work also aims to prepare these data sets for use in a study of convective mass flux profiles in deep convection, an effort which will be covered in a future presentation.