Research / Campaigns

SPORT

Statistical Properties of Rainfall in Tasmania

1 November 2024 - 14 December 2025

Lead Scientist: Alain Protat

Observatory: AMF (ARM Mobile Facility 2) - KCG

The objective of the Statistical Properties Of Rainfall in Tasmania (SPORT) project is to complement the AMF2 deployment at Kennaook-Cape Grim (CAPE-k) with a micro rain radar (MRR-PRO) mounted on top of one of the ARM containers to locate the MRR-PRO close to the ARM cloud radars (KAZR and MWACR). This will allow for a continuous calibration check of the ARM cloud radars against the MRR-PRO and Parsivel-2 disdrometers. Scientifically, it will add one radar frequency to the analysis of vertical profiles of cloud and precipitation properties (K-band). It will also allow characterization of the statistical properties of rainfall, the efficiency of rainfall microphysical processes (collision, coalescence, evaporation, size sorting), and the relationship between radar observables and drop size distribution (DSD) parameters using a combination of DSD and rainfall rate measurements at ground (disdrometer) and vertical profiles of backscatter, radar reflectivity, and Doppler velocity (ceilometer, lidar, and micro rain radars).

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Protat et al. Statistical Properties of Rainfall in Tasmania (SPORT) Field Campaign Report. 2025. 10.2172/2589440.

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Cloud And Precipitation Experiment at kennaook

Co-Investigators

Gerald Mace

Timeline

KCG Data Sources

Name	Full Name	Browse Data
`ACSM`	Aerosol Chemical Speciation Monitor	Browse Data
`AERI`	Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer	Browse Data
`AERINF`	AERI Noise Filtered	Browse Data
`AIRORIGIN`	Determination of airmass origin	Browse Data
`AOD-MFRSR`	Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) derived from MFRSR measurements	Browse Data
`AOSMET`	Meteorological Measurements associated with the Aerosol Observing System	Browse Data
`APS`	Aerodynamic Particle Sizer	Browse Data
`ARMTRAJ`	Airmass trajectories to support studies using ARM data	Browse Data
`ASI`	All Sky Imager	Browse Data
`CAMINST`	camera that monitors an instrument	Browse Data
`CAMSITE`	camera that monitors a site area	Browse Data
`CCN`	Cloud Condensation Nuclei Particle Counter	Browse Data
`CEIL`	Ceilometer	Browse Data
`CEILPBLHT`	Boundary-layer height data with CEIL	Browse Data
`CLDTYPE`	Cloud Type Classification	Browse Data
`CLOUDRADARCOR`	Cloud Radar (KAZR, KAZR2, or MWACR) Corrected VAP	Browse Data
`CPC`	Condensation Particle Counter	Browse Data
`CSPHOT`	Sunphotometer	Browse Data
`DL`	Doppler Lidar	Browse Data
`DLPROF-WIND`	Doppler Lidar Wind	Browse Data
`DLPROF-WSTATS`	Doppler Lidar Vertical Velocity Statistics	Browse Data
`ECOR`	Eddy Correlation Flux Measurement System	Browse Data
`GNDRAD`	Ground Radiometers on Stand for Upwelling Radiation	Browse Data
`INS`	Ice Nucleation Spectrometer for INP measurement	Browse Data
`INTERPSONDE`	Interpolated Sonde	Browse Data
`IRT`	Infrared Thermometer	Browse Data
`KAZR`	Ka ARM Zenith Radar	Browse Data
`KAZRARSCL`	Active Remote Sensing of CLouds (ARSCL) product using Ka-band ARM Zenith Radars	Browse Data
`LDIS`	Laser Disdrometer	Browse Data
`LDQUANTS`	Laser Disdrometer Quantities	Browse Data
`MAWS`	Automatic Weather Station	Browse Data
`MET`	Surface Meteorological Instrumentation	Browse Data
`MFR`	Multifilter Radiometer	Browse Data
`MFRSR`	Multifilter Rotating Shadowband Radiometer	Browse Data
`MPL`	Micropulse Lidar	Browse Data
`MPLCMASK`	Cloud mask from Micropulse Lidar	Browse Data
`MPLCMASKML`	Micropulse Lidar Cloud Mask Machine Learning VAP	Browse Data
`MWACR`	Marine W-Band (95 GHz) ARM Cloud Radar	Browse Data
`MWR`	Microwave Radiometer	Browse Data
`MWR3C`	Microwave Radiometer, 3 Channel	Browse Data
`OPC`	Optical Particle Counter	Browse Data
`OZONE`	Ozone Monitor	Browse Data
`PBLHT`	Planetary Boundary Layer Height	Browse Data
`RWP`	Radar Wind Profiler	Browse Data
`SEBS`	Surface Energy Balance System	Browse Data
`SIRS`	Solar and Infrared Radiation Station for Downwelling and Upwelling Radiation	Browse Data
`SKYRAD`	Sky Radiometers on Stand for Downwelling Radiation	Browse Data
`SONDE`	Balloon-Borne Sounding System	Browse Data
`SONDEGRID`	Gridded Sonde VAP Product	Browse Data
`SP2`	Single Particle Soot Photometer	Browse Data
`THERMOCLDPHASE`	Thermodynamic Cloud Phase	Browse Data
`TROPOE`	Tropospheric Optimal Estimation Retrieval	Browse Data
`UHSAS`	Ultra-High Sensitivity Aerosol Spectrometer	Browse Data
`VDIS`	Video Disdrometer	Browse Data
`VDISQUANTS`	Video Disdrometer VAP	Browse Data
`VISST`	Minnis Cloud Products Using Visst Algorithm	Browse Data
`WB`	Weighing Bucket Precipitation Gauge	Browse Data