Image credit: Houze, Jr., R. A. , L. A. McMurdie, & W. A. Petersen, 2017: The Olympic Mountains Experiment for GPM (OLYMPEX), AMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, 25 January 2017
The OLYMPEx Field Campaign was a valuable part of the GPM-Ground Validation effort that took place in the Olympic Mountains of Washington during Nov 2015-Jan 2016. OLYMPEX scientists performed detailed investigations of terrain amplification of Pacific storm rain events and atmospheric river events. GHRC has started publishing OLYMPEX datasets, including several ground precipitation instruments (Pluvio, Autonomous Parsivel Units, Rain Gauges, 2DVD), ground radars (MRR, D3R), and airborne instruments that flew on the Global Hawk (HIWRAP, APR-3) and the Citation II (NCAR Particle Probes and Cloud Microphysics Datasets) aircraft flown during the campaign to coincide with GPM overflights.
More datasets will be published in the coming months. To access available data, visit HyDRO and search with the word "OLYMPEX"
List of OLYMPEX datasets
GPM Ground Validation Pluvio Precipitation Gauges OLYMPEX
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/OLYMPEX/PLUVIO/DATA301
GPM Ground Validation Autonomous Parsivel Unit (APU) OLYMPEX
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/OLYMPEX/APU/DATA301
GPM Ground Validation High Altitude Imaging Wind and Rain Airborne Profiler (HIWRAP) OLYMPEX
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/OLYMPEX/HIWRAP/DATA101
GPM Ground Validation Met one Rain Gauge Pairs OLYMPEX
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/OLYMPEX/GAUGES/DATA201
GPM Ground Validation Airborne Precipitation Radar 3rd Generation (APR-3) OLYMPEX
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/OLYMPEX/APR3/DATA101
GPM Ground Validation Micro Rain Radar (MRR) OLYMPEX
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/OLYMPEX/MRR/DATA201
GPM Ground Validation Dual-frequency Dual-polarized Doppler Radar (D3R) OLYMPEX
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/OLYMPEX/D3R/DATA101
