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Olympic Mountains Experiment

Global Water & Energy Cycle, Weather

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Deployment
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Platforms
36
Data Products

The Campaign

The Olympic Mountains Experiment (OLYMPEX) occurred in the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State. This campaign used airborne and ground-based platforms to gather precipitation observations for comparison to and validation of satellite data. In addition, science objectives included evaluating the topographic influences on the region's precipitation. OLYMPEX supported the Ground Validation (GV) effort for NASA's Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) and Precipitation Measurement Missions (PMM).

2015-11-01 — 2016-05-01

Olympic Peninsula in U.S. Washington State
boreal winter, cold, wet

N: 48.5°N

S: 46°N

W: 126°W

E: 122°W

Additional Notes

OLYMPEX is one of the GPM Ground Validation field campaigns. OLYMPEX benefited from a collaboration with the NASA Aerosols/Clouds/Ecosystem (A/C/E) Radar Definition Experiment (RADEX)

GPM SATELLITE MEASUREMENT ACCURACY
PRECIPITATION IN MID-LATITUDE FRONTAL SYSTEMS
TOPOGRAPHIC/OROGRAPHIC EFFECTS ON PRECIPITATION
ATMOSPHERIC RIVERS
PRECIPITATION CHARACTERISTICS
GPM
PMM
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Events

1 Deployment
1 IOP
4 Significant Events
20162017

Filter data products from this campaign by specific platforms, instruments, or formats.

Platforms
PLATFORMS
Instruments
INSTRUMENTS
External Linkhttp://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/OLYMPEX/XPOL/DATA201
External Linkhttp://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/OLYMPEX/D3R/DATA101
External Linkhttp://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/OLYMPEX/XPOL/DATA101
External Linkhttp://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/OLYMPEX/GOES15/DATA101
No related platforms, instruments or formats
External Linkhttp://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/OLYMPEX/XBAND/DATA301
External Linkhttp://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/OLYMPEX/DOW/DATA201
External Linkhttp://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/OLYMPEX/CXSI/DATA101
External Linkhttp://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/OLYMPEX/METSTATION/DATA101
External Linkhttp://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/OLYMPEX/GAUGES/DATA201
Rain Gauge
External Linkhttp://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/OLYMPEX/PLUVIO/DATA301
Pluvio
External Linkhttp://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/OLYMPEX/MULTIPLE/DATA401
No related platforms, instruments or formats
External Linkhttp://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/OLYMPEX/NPOL/DATA301
External Linkhttp://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/OLYMPEX/NAV/DATA201
External Linkhttp://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/OLYMPEX/NAV/DATA301
Douglas DC-8
External Linkhttp://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/OLYMPEX/NAV/DATA101
External Linkhttp://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/OLYMPEX/MRR/DATA201
External Linkhttp://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/OLYMPEX/MASC/DATA101
External Linkhttp://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/OLYMPEX/HIWRAP/DATA101
External Linkhttp://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/OLYMPEX/CRS/DATA101
External Linkhttp://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/OLYMPEX/CPL/DATA101
External Linkhttp://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/OLYMPEX/COSMIR/DATA301
External Linkhttp://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/OLYMPEX/AVAPS/DATA101
External Linkhttp://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/OLYMPEX/AMPR/DATA101
External Linkhttp://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/OLYMPEX/APR3/DATA201
External Linkhttp://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/OLYMPEX/APU/DATA301
External Linkhttp://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/OLYMPEX/2DVD/DATA/301
NASA
GPM GV, GPM, PMM
Ramesh Kakar
Robert A. Houze
Stacy Brodzik
ECCC, NPS, QIN, USFS, USFWS, UWash