Dataset on the first weather radar campaign over Lima, Peru

The first weather radar campaign over Lima, the capital of Peru, a desertic area on the western side of the Peruvian Andes, was carried out to study the occurrence of rain events in summer 2018. The weather radar was installed strategically and was able to overlook three river basins: Rimac, Chillón...

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Autores principales: Valdivia, Jairo M., Scipión, Danny E., Milla, Marco, Prado, Josep J., Espinoza, Juan C., Cordova, Darwin, Saavedra, Miguel, Villalobos, Elver, Callañaupa, Stephany, Silva, Yamina
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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Data Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8010614/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33816729
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2021.106937
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Sumario:The first weather radar campaign over Lima, the capital of Peru, a desertic area on the western side of the Peruvian Andes, was carried out to study the occurrence of rain events in summer 2018. The weather radar was installed strategically and was able to overlook three river basins: Rimac, Chillón, and Lurin. An X-band radar (PX-1000) was used, which operates at 9.55 GHz. PX-1000 was built by the Advanced Radar Research Center (ARRC) at the University of Oklahoma (U.S.A.). The radar operated from January 26th to April 1st, 2018, at Cerro Suche located 2910 m ASL and 55 km from the city of Lima. The PX-1000 performed plan-position-indicators (PPI) for elevations starting at 0° up to 20°. The data presented here were obtained using a three-dimensional constant-altitude plan-position-indicator (3D CAPPI), which was generated by high resolution (250 m) nearest point algorithm.

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