Cloud Radar¶
The Cloud Radar instrument is backed by the RPG FMCW 94 GHz radar Zarr and is shown as a height-time product in the interactive dashboard.
Interactive behavior¶
- interactive tab shows recent radar windows from the Zarr
- the builder drops invalid and clearly bogus future timestamps before writing the Zarr; the app keeps a defensive future-time mask for recent windows and plot bounds
- availability bars make true data gaps visible across the selected time range
Quicklooks¶
- science quicklooks show archived daily radar products
- latest and daily science quicklooks share the same compact eight-panel layout, with boxed panel labels, a common UTC x-axis, and fixed colorbar gutters so the saved PNGs do not carry large blank margins
- housekeeping quicklooks include
HK_Radar, which is generated from the raw RPG LV1 support variables rather than the radar science Zarr
HK_Radar currently groups:
- sample cadence and radar status
- DD voltage, IF power, and brightness temperature
- transmitter, receiver, and PC temperatures
- transmitter power
- antenna elevation, azimuth, and inclination
- surface meteorology measured by the radar system
- rain, liquid water path, and cloud-base ancillary products
Backing data product¶
Zarr path:
/data/aurora/products/rpgfmcw94/cloud_radar.zarr
Detailed schema:
Source mirror¶
Raw files are mirrored under:
/project/aurora/raw/rpgfmcw94
The housekeeping quicklook reader scans these raw files directly because the
instrument support channels are not stored in
/data/aurora/products/rpgfmcw94/cloud_radar.zarr.