GPM Cold Season Precipitation Experiment
Atmospheric Composition, Global Water & Energy Cycle, Weather
- 1
- Deployment
2012-01-15 2012-03-04 - 6
- Platforms
- 44
- Data Products
The Campaign
The GPM Cold Season Precipitation Experiment (GCPEx) focused on ground validation observations to enhance GPM snowfall retrieval algorithm performance by characterizing the ability of active and passive microwave sensors to detect and estimate falling snow. GCPEx had a single deployment over southern Ontario, Canada, and the northern US, during the boreal winter of 2012. Airborne in situ microphysics data and multi-frequency active and passive microwave observations were supplemented by ground sites that included multiple frequencies of radars, radiometers, disdrometers, and photographic and video imagery. GCPEx was a NASA PMM/GPM GV field campaign.
N: 50.5°N
S: 34.5°N
W: 88.7°W
E: 61.52°W
Campaign DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/GCPEX/DATA101- GHRC Repository Search Results for GCPEx
- GHRC Project Website for GCPEx
- GPM Project Website for GCPEx
- An overview of the GCPEx campaign
- An overview of the GCPEx campaign including science goals and strategy
- An overview of instrumentation used in the GCPEx campaign
- An excerpt from the GCPEx efforts on snow measurements
- An overview of ice particle parameterization improvements from data collected during the GCPEx campaign
- An overview of precipitation associated with a warm front during GCPEx
- An overview of microphysical parameterizations for a warm frontal snowband during GCPEx
Additional Notes
GCPEx is one of several campaigns operated under the Ground Validation activities for the GPM satellite.
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