Southern Hemisphere Plotting and ZHO Data

By: ksterne on: Sun., Feb. 26, 2012 04:17 PM EST (7776 Reads)

A few Southern Hemisphere radars were tested out for the validity of the data as well as verifying that our plotting abilities in Southern Hemisphere are correct. As seen to the right, we focused on McMurdo and Zhongshan and showed an overlay of a field of view scan from each radar. Each of these radars are a bit different as they have beam numbers opposite of each of the other southern hemisphere radars.

The difference in beam numbering is accounted for in the beam separation value in the hdw.dat file. For all of the other Southern Hemisphere radars, the beam separation is negative and beam 0 is the rightmost beam. However, for MCM & ZHO the beam separation is positive and beam 0 is the leftmost beam. However, the scanning scheme is still the same as the other Southern Hemisphere radars as MCM scans from beam 0 to beam 15 and ZHO scans from beam 15 to beam 0.

An animation of overlay of the ZHO & MCM radars is seen in:

Southern Hemisphere Plotting and ZHO Data

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