Identification

Title

PRECIP: NCAR S-Pol Radar Moments Zarr Subset

Alternative title(s)

d694517

Abstract

This dataset features S-band Dual Polarization Doppler (S-Pol) radar moments collected during the Prediction of Rainfall Extremes Campaign in the Pacific (PRECIP) between May 25, 2015, and August 11, 2022. While the original 2TB archive consists of 3-hourly tarred CfRadial1 netCDF files, this refined version has been converted into a cloud-optimized, Analysis-Ready Data (ARCO) with CfRadial2 convention in Zarr format. This version allows researchers to perform high-speed parallel processing without the overhead of unpacking traditional radar data. Original data file can be fine here (https://doi.org/10.26023/QA4M-CDHH-MY0Z [https://doi.org/10.26023/QA4M-CDHH-MY0Z])

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://gdex.ucar.edu/datasets/d694517/

protocol: https

name: Dataset Description

description: Related Link

function: information

https://gdex.ucar.edu/datasets/d694517/dataaccess/

protocol: https

name: Data Access

description: Related Link

function: download

Unique resource identifier

code

codeSpace

Dataset language

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

dataset

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2021-03-30

Keyword set

keyword value

Data Collections

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2026-02-27

Keyword set

keyword value

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > LOCAL WINDS

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD DYNAMICS

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD MICROPHYSICS

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD PROPERTIES

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > LIQUID PRECIPITATION > DRIZZLE

EARTH SCIENCE > SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING > RADAR > DOPPLER VELOCITY

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2026-02-27

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

East bounding longitude

North bounding latitude

South bounding latitude

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2022-05-25

End position

2022-08-11

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2026-03-05

Frequency of update

notPlanned

Quality and validity

Lineage

Conformity

Data format

name of format

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Limitations on public access

None

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

email address

datahelp@ucar.edu

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

NSF NCAR Geoscience Data Exchange

email address

datahelp@ucar.edu

web address

https://gdex.ucar.edu

name: NSF NCAR Geoscience Data Exchange

description: The Geoscience Data Exchange (GDEX), managed by the Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) at NSF NCAR, contains a large collection of meteorological, atmospheric composition, and oceanographic observations, and operational and reanalysis model outputs, integrated with NSF NCAR High Performance Compute services to support atmospheric and geosciences research.

function: download

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2026-03-06T05:17:18Z

Metadata language