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Instrument PI's: Please provide or update information for your instrument and datasets by completing the Dataset Instrument Survey. The survey should be returned to the GHRC Data Management Group and the MC3E Tech Team. Suggested naming conventions can be found here.

Ground Instruments
Instrument Name	Acronym	Investigators	Type	Product Description
Autonomous Parsivel Units	APU	PI: Walt Petersen (NASA MSFC)	Disdrometer	Direct measures of rain DSD, particle phase, and fall-velocity of particle sizes from 0.3 mm to 20 cm
Met One Rain Gauge Pairs		PI: Walt Petersen (NASA MSFC) David Wolff Co-I: Larry Carey (UAH) Ali Tokay (NASA GSFC)	Rain gauge (Tipping Bucket)	Direct Rainfall amount Indirect Rain rate
Radiosonde		PI: Mike Jensen (BNL)	Radiosonde
Surface Bowen Ratio (tower)		PI: Brad Orr (DOE)
Two-dimensional Video Disdrometers	2DVD	PI: Walt Petersen (NASA MSFC)	Disdrometer	Direct Particle size and concentration measurements for particles of 0.3–8 mm in diameter (bin resolution of 0.25 mm), axis ratio distribution, and fall-velocity information
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RADARS
Instrument Name	Acronym	Investigators	Type	Product Description
DOE C-band Dual-polarized radar		PI: Pavlos Kollias (DOE)
DOE X-band Radar Network		PI: Pavlos Kollias (DOE)
Ka/W band scanning/vertically pointing radars		PI: Pavlos Kollias (DOE)
NASA Dual-Frequency Dual-Polarized Doppler Radar	D3R	PI: Matthew Schwaller (NASA MSFC) Manuel Vega
NASA NPOL S-band Dual-polarimetric Doppler radar	NPOL	PI: John Gerlach (NASA WFF)
NOAA AERI IR Radiometer	AERI	PI: Dave Turner (NOAA)
NOAA-ESRL S-band profiler/449 MHz Profiler		PI: Christopher Williams (NOAA)
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Aircraft
Instrument Name	Acronym	Investigators	Type	Product Description

Citation
Cloud Microphysics Suite		PI: Andy Heymsfield (NCAR) Mike Poellot (UND)

ER-2
Advanced Microwave Precipitation Radiometer	AMPR	PI: Walt Petersen (NASA MSFC) Co-I: Frank LaFontaine (Raytheon Jacobs) Courtney Buckley (USRA)	Radiometer (Passive)	Direct Brightness Temperatures at 10H, 10V, 19H, 19V, 37H, 37V, 85H, and 85V Derived Rain Rate, Precipitation Index, Soil moisture
Conical Scanning Millimeter-wave Imaging Radiometer.	CoSMIR	PI: Gail Skofronick-Jackson (NASA GSFC) Co-I: James Wang (NASA GSFC/SSAI)	Radiometer	Direct Radiances Derived Vertically integrated precipitation (liquid/solid)
High-Altitude Imaging Wind and Rain Airborne Profiler	HIWRAP	PI: Gerry Heymsfield (NASA GSFC)

UTSI Piper
L-band MAPIR	MAPIR	PI: Charles Laymon (USRA)	Radiosonde
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Spacecraft
Instrument Name	Acronym	Investigators	Type	Product Description

Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES)
GOES VIS/IR	GOES VIS/IR

NASA A-Train (CloudSat, Calipso, Aqua)
Combined cloud-radar, passive microwave, lidar

NOAA Polar Orbiters
Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit	AMSU-a/b
Microwave Humidity Sounder	MHS
Special Sensor Microwave/Imager	SSM/I

Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Satellite
Precipitation Radar	PR
TRMM Microwave Imager	TMI
Visible Infrared Scanner	VIRS
Lightning Imaging Sensor	LIS
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