PAZ CALIBRATED POLARIMETRIC PRODUCTS

Current version: cal_20200513
                    
Version number: The date of the accumulated antenna pattern used for phase shift calibration. 
THIS IS NOT THE DATE OF DATA PROCESSING




paz_pol ---- cal_20200513 ---- y2018 ---- 2018*.nc
         |                 |
         |                 --- y2019 ---- 2019*.nc
         |                 |
         |                 --- y2020 ---- 2020*.nc
         |                 |
         |                 --- y2021 ---- 2021*.nc 
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         |
         --- cal_???????? ---- y2018




FORMAT

dimensions:
	time
	time_sm 
	time_sm_lin 
	height 
variables:
	double time(time) ;
		time:description = "Occultation time" ;
		time:units = "s" ;
	double dph_cal(time) ;
		dph_cal:description = "Calibrated differential phase shift" ;
		dph_cal:units = "mm" ;
	double snrH(time) ;
		snrH:description = "snr L1 H-pol" ;
		snrH:units = "v/v" ;
	double snrV(time) ;
		snrV:description = "snr L1 V-pol" ;
		snrV:units = "v/v" ;
	double geoheight(time) ;
		geoheight:description = "Geoheight" ;
		geoheight:units = "km" ;
	double time_sm(time_sm) ;
		time_sm:description = "Time for smoothed phase" ;
		time_sm:units = "s" ;
	double dph_smooth(time_sm) ;
		dph_smooth:description = "Smoothed differential phase shift" ;
		dph_smooth:units = "mm" ;
	double dph_smooth_std(time_sm) ;
		dph_smooth_std:description = "Standard deviation of smoothed differential phase shift (for running window 50 points)" ;
		dph_smooth_std:units = "mm" ;
	double height_smooth(time_sm) ;
		height_smooth:description = "Height for smoothed phase" ;
		height_smooth:units = "km" ;
	double std_smooth_dph(time_sm) ;
		std_smooth_dph:description = "Standard deviation after smoothing phase" ;
		std_smooth_dph:units = "mm" ;
	double time_sm_lin(time_sm_lin) ;
		time_sm_lin:description = "Time for smoothed phase (linear)" ;
		time_sm_lin:units = "s" ;
	double dph_smooth_lin(time_sm_lin) ;
		dph_smooth_lin:description = "Smoothed differential phase shift (only linear fit)" ;
		dph_smooth_lin:units = "mm" ;
	double dph_smooth_std_lin(time_sm_lin) ;
		dph_smooth_std_lin:description = "Standard deviation of smoothed differential phase shift - linear trend (for running window 50 points)" ;
		dph_smooth_std_lin:units = "mm" ;
	double height_smooth_lin(time_sm_lin) ;
		height_smooth_lin:description = "Height for smoothed phase - linear fit" ;
		height_smooth_lin:units = "km" ;
	double std_smooth_dph_lin(time_sm_lin) ;
		std_smooth_dph_lin:description = "Standard deviation after smoothing phase (linear fit)" ;
		std_smooth_dph_lin:units = "mm" ;
	double height(height) ;
		height:description = "Height vector for the 0.1 km vertical grid" ;
		height:units = "km" ;
	double dph_smooth_grid(height) ;
		dph_smooth_grid:description = "Smoothed differential phase shift into 0.1 km vertical grid" ;
		dph_smooth_grid:units = "mm" ;
	double dph_smooth_grid_std(height) ;
		dph_smooth_grid_std:description = "Standard deviation of smoothed differential phase shift into 0.1 km vertical grid" ;
		dph_smooth_grid_std:units = "mm" ;
	double dph_lintrend_grid(height) ;
		dph_lintrend_grid:description = "Differential phase shift corrected for linear trend into 0.1 km vertical grid" ;
		dph_lintrend_grid:units = "mm" ;
	double temperature(height) ;
		temperature:description = "Temperature from H retrieval interpolated into a 0.1 km vertical grid" ;
		temperature:units = "K" ;
	double pressure(height) ;
		pressure:description = "Pressure from H retrieval interpolated into a 0.1 km vertical grid" ;
		pressure:units = "hPa" ;
	double wv_pressure(height) ;
		wv_pressure:description = "Water vapor pressure from H retrieval interpolated into a 0.1 km vertical grid" ;
		wv_pressure:units = "hPa" ;
	double refractivity(height) ;
		refractivity:description = "Refractivity from H retrieval interpolated into a 0.1 km vertical grid" ;
		refractivity:units = "N" ;

// global attributes:
		:_NCProperties
		:lat_occ 
		:lon_occ 
		:azSurf 
		:gps 
		:prn 
		:year 
		:month 
		:day 
		:hour 
		:minute 
		:second 
		:doy 
		:dateAntennaPattern 
		:deltaphi_000050 
		:deltaphi_050100 
		:deltaphi_100150 
		:deltaphi_150200 
		:deltaphi_200250 
		:deltaphi_10km 
		:deltaphi_15km 
		:deltaphi_20km 
		:rmsAbove20km 
		:height_flag_smooth
		:height_flag_corr 
		:fit_a 
		:fit_m 
		:fit_a_lin 
		:fit_m_lin 
		:precipBelow12
		:precipBelow
		:p2 
		:p06
		:tb 
		:cth_Tb 
                :references





Reference:

Padullés, R., Ao, C. O., Turk, F. J., de la Torre Juárez, M., Iijima, B., Wang, K. N., and Cardellach, E.: 
Calibration and validation of the Polarimetric Radio Occultation and Heavy Precipitation experiment aboard 
the PAZ satellite, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 13, 1299–1313, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-1299-2020, 2020.