GPM Cold Season Precipitation Experiment
Atmospheric Composition, Global Water & Energy Cycle, Weather
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- Deployment
2012-01-15 2012-03-04 - 6
- Platforms
- 44
- Data Products
The Campaign
The GPM Cold Season Precipitation Experiment (GCPEx) was a NASA field investigation that focused on collecting ground validation observations to enhance the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) snowfall retrieval algorithm. GCPEx had one deployment during the boreal winter of 2012 across southern Ontario and the northern United States. Multiple aircraft collected remote and in situ measurements of snow and cloud microphysics. Supplementary ground-based observations were also collected using multiple radars, disdrometers, and radiometers. GCPEx was one of the NASA GPM Ground Validation (GV) field campaigns.
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 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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