[RADAR] TYPE = CFRADIAL # this is needed to distinguish among NetCDF format specifications RADAR_FREQ = 2.73 # radar operating frequency in GHz # THRESHOLD_SNR = 2.0 # threshold on the SNR (dB) for particle ID: bins with SNR below threshold are not processed [GENERAL] write_original_vars = 0 # Set to 0 to write DROPS processed fields (Zh,Zdr,RhoHV,PhiDP,Kdp) in the output file # Set to 1 to write original fields (Zh,Zdr,RhoHV,PhiDP,Kdp) in the output file # this works ONLY for NetCDF file format write_cfradial = 1 # 0 = Write output file in the same format as the input file # 1 = Write output file in Cf/Radial format (can be processed by Radx) height_cut = 20000 # height cut (m): does not process data above this altitude max_bins = 3000 # max number of range bins to process and store in output file # (if < than actual range bins, the sweeps are truncated) min_elev = 0.0 # minimum elevation for hydroclass max_elev = 90.0 # maximum elevation for hydroclass subsampling = 0 # perform subsampling in radial direction if too many radials (only works with NetCDF format) subsamp_radials = 180 # Minimum #radials to keep, e.g. if nradials = 719 can not subsample, if nradials = 720 yes [MBTABLE] MBTYPE = DEFAULT_SBAND [CLUTTER] DO_CLUTTER = 0 # 0 = only hydrometeors ID / 1 = hydrometeors AND CLUTTER IDENTIFICATION NO_DATA_NBINS = 2 # first bins in range to set to CLUTTER [TEMP] zero_level = 4700 # zero level [m] optimize_tprofile = 1 # flag to try optimization of T profile (using quality of WET_SNOW identifications) [CLUSTER] it_CLUSTER = 4 # flag (max number of iterations) to activate Cluster analysis to refine the classification LAMBDA = 0.8 # 0 = only use spatial contiguity; 1 = k-means only cluster ALPHA = 0.75 # coeff to decrease lambda with increasing iteration WPENALTY = 12.0 # weight for the penalty term in the cost function WINDOW_DX = 800.0 # horizontal width (in meters) of the window for Contiguity and Penalty WINDOW_DY = 600.0 # vertical width (in meters) of the window for Contiguity and Penalty WINDOW_ADAPT = 0 # adapt the orientation as a function of convectivity, in this case only the aspect ratio is needed: # e.g.: (DX=200, DY=400) or (DX=400, DY=200) is the same [REGION] ASSIGNMENT_TYPE = 2 # 0 = use average values within the region (faster); # 1 = use Histograms (quite fast) # 2 = use Kernel Density Estimation of PDF (slower) [BIAS] zh = 0.0 # bias in dBZ (to subtract from observed value!) zdr = 0.0 # bias in dB (to subtract from observed value!) # DROPS: Dual-polarization Radar Operational Processing System # Configuration File # # The dictionary entries for reading fields [IN] Reflectivity=DBZ DifferentialReflectivity=ZDR DifferentialPhase=PHIDP CoCorrelation=RHOHV DopplerVelocity=VEL SpectralWidth=WIDTH # The dictionary entries for output NetCDF fields [OUT] Reflectivity=Reflectivity DifferentialReflectivity=DifferentialReflectivity DifferentialPhase=PhiDP SpecificDifferentialPhase=KDP CoCorrelation=CrossPolCorrelation DopplerVelocity=Velocity #SpectralWidth=SpectralWidth HydrometeorClassification=HydroClass RainfallRate=RR # Specify and implement some configurable coefficients [CONST] # Thresholds for data mask as following: StartBinsCount=4 EndBinsCount=14 MinimumDispersion=0.98 MinimumRhohv=0.80 MinimumSNR=6.0 MinimumGoodBins=4 MinimumBadBins=3 MinimumRhohvHail=0.6 MinimumPhidpStdv=4.0 MaximumPhidpStdv=16.0 # Rain line specification as following: RainlineIntercept=-9.36 RainlineSlope=1.1 # Rainfall relations as following: R-Z:Intercept=0.0202 R-Z:Slope=0.6572 R-ZHZDR:Intercept=5.4e-3 R-ZHZDR:SlopeZh=0.94 R-ZHZDR:slopeZdr=-3.5927 R-KDP:Intercept=39.8404 R-KDP:slope=0.8512 R-KDPZDR:Intercept=93.1544 R-KDPZDR:SlopeKdp=0.9526 R-KDPZDR:SlopeZdr=-1.7521 # Thresholds for KDP estimation as following: StandardSmoothing=0.1 AdaptiveSmoothing=1.1 # Attenuation relations as following: Optimization=-1 AlphaH=0.0165 Gamma=0.00334 #NOTES: RadarConstant and NoisePower are mainly used to #overwrite the ones in UF file IF they are specified WRONG #in the UF headers; be careful to change RadarConstant=75.5 NoisePower=-110