S-PolKa Users' Guide

S-Pol SoWMEX/TiMREX, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
May/Jun 2008

1. Introduction
   • Project Description
   • The role of S-Pol
   • Links to other project information

2. Siting
   • Location
   • Terrain, Ground Clutter, and Blockage
   • Site Photos
     • S-Pol site Panoramic Photo (4000 Kbytes)

3. Dataset Description
   • Periods of Operation
   • List of Known Problems
   • Parameters Available
   • Periods of Special Data Collection
   • S-Pol Datasets
     • 21-Variable S-band, full matrix (NetCDF sweepfiles)
     • 21-variable S-band, full matrix (DORADE sweepfiles)
     • 8-Variable Particle ID (DORADE sweepfiles)
     • 7-variable Precip Accumulation (DORADE sweepfiles)
     • Scan images
   • List of Data Tapes & Raw Data
   • Requesting Data

4. Practical Notes on Using the Data
   • Quicklook image products
     • S-Pol DZ/VE/PD/ZDR scan image archive
   • Scan lists (there is no software to generate these)
     • Decoding scanlist information
   • Data Availability

5. Data Verification Issues
   • Ranging and Pointing
   • Differential Reflectivity, Zdr
   • S-band Reflectivity
   • System sensitivity
   • Miscellaneous

6. Corrections Made in Processing
   • (see summary document.)

7. Software Tools
   • Solo and the translators
   • CIDD
   • MatLab 7

Appendices

1. Operators' Log
2. S-Pol Calibration History