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    • GPM Ground Validation Dual-frequency Dual-polarized Doppler Radar (D3R) OLYMPEX

    Metadata Updated: April 10, 2026

    The GPM Ground Validation Dual-frequency Dual-polarized Doppler Radar (D3R) OLYMPEX dataset contains radar reflectivity, velocity, differential reflectivity, differential phase, spectrum width, and co-polar correlation products collected during the Global Precipitation Measurement mission (GPM) Ground Validation (GV) Olympic Mountains Experiment (OLYMPEX). The OLYMPEX field campaign took place between November 2015 and January 2016, with additional ground sampling continuing through February 2016, on the Olympic Peninsula in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. The purpose of the campaign was to provide ground-validation data for the measurements taken by instrumentation aboard the GPM Core Observatory satellite. The Dual-frequency Dual-polarized Doppler Radar (D3R) was developed by a government-industry-academic consortium with funding from NASA’s GPM mission and was used in several ground validation projects. D3R operates at the Ku-band (13.91 GHz ± 25 MHz) and Ka-band (35.56 GHz ± 25 MHz) frequencies, similar to the frequencies used for the GPM satellite instruments, and covers a fixed range from 450 m to 40 km. For OLYMPEX, the D3R was co-located with the NASA S-band Dual Polarimetric (NPOL) Doppler Radar at a coastal Washington state location on the Olympic Peninsula. Due to blockage caused by NPOL, the D3R measurement area is limited to a 220 degree to 120 degree sector. The GPM GV D3R OLYMPEX dataset files are available from November 8, 2015 through January 15, 2016 in netCDF-4 format along with browse imagery of reflectivity in PNG format.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: See this page for license information.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date April 10, 2026

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date April 10, 2026
    Publisher NASA/MSFC/GHRC
    Maintainer
    Identifier 10.5067/GPMGV/OLYMPEX/D3R/DATA101
    Data Last Modified 2026-04-06
    Category Earth Science
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
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    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    License https://www.usa.gov/government-works
    Old Spatial "CARTESIAN",{"WestBoundingCoordinate":-124.211,"NorthBoundingCoordinate":47.2773,"EastBoundingCoordinate":-124.211,"SouthBoundingCoordinate":47.2772}
    Program Code 026:000
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 416670d4f7242a3179bde50905195b76a4593bcc1c9cacb520ce98002077c48d
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 2015-11-08/2016-01-15

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