dk

Denmark

• QA by: Cecilia Nilsson (CN), Peter Desmet (PD), Bart Kranstauber (BK)
• Data evaluated:
  BALTRAD 2019-09-24 - 2019-10-31 /CN19
  BALTRAD 2012-2017 /CN22

General comments

• BALTRAD 2019: VCP issues, alternating scans seem heavily filtered (?). No obvious problems with gaps in data or ground clutter. Some rain contamination events, but not many, Overall patterns of bird activity look good and reasonable./CN19
• BALTRAD 2012-2017: No biological reflectivity at all, but DBZH looks normal. Wavelength is wrong for all radars (0.0533, should be aprox. 5.33). /CN22

Parameters

0: not available, 1: available, 2: poor quality, 3: good quality

param	quality	remarks
DBZH	1
TH	1
VRADH	1
CCORH	0
RHOHV	1
PHIDP	1
ZDR	1
LDR	1	Extra parameter for all /PD20
WRADH	1	Extra parameter for all /PD20

Volume coverage pattern

The Danish radars seem to have two main VCP's, on the full 5 minutes scans generally look like this (for DK/SIN, with slight variation in elevation angles):

on the full 10 minutes (00:00, 00:10, ...)

nr	NI	elangle	nbins	nrays	rscale	params
1	8.3	0.5	475	360	500	DBZH, RHOHV, PHIDP, ZDR, VRADH, TH
2	8.3	0.7	475	360	500	DBZH, RHOHV, PHIDP, ZDR, VRADH, TH
3	8.3	1.0	475	360	500	DBZH, RHOHV, PHIDP, ZDR, VRADH, TH
4	8.3	1.5	475	360	500	DBZH, RHOHV, PHIDP, ZDR, VRADH, TH
5	8.3	2.4	475	360	500	DBZH, RHOHV, PHIDP, ZDR, VRADH, TH
6	8.3	4.8	475	360	500	DBZH, RHOHV, PHIDP, ZDR, VRADH, TH
7	8.3	8.4	475	360	500	DBZH, RHOHV, PHIDP, ZDR, VRADH, TH
8	8.3	10.0	475	360	500	DBZH, RHOHV, PHIDP, ZDR, VRADH, TH
9	8.3	13.0	475	360	500	DBZH, RHOHV, PHIDP, ZDR, VRADH, TH
10	8.3	15.0	475	360	500	DBZH, RHOHV, PHIDP, ZDR, VRADH, TH

5 minutes offset (00:05, 00:15, ...)

nr	NI	elangle	nbins	nrays	rscale	params
1	47.2	0.5	239	360	500	DBZH, RHOHV, PHIDP, ZDR, VRADH, TH
2	47.2	0.7	239	360	500	DBZH, RHOHV, PHIDP, ZDR, VRADH, TH
3	47.2	1.0	239	360	500	DBZH, RHOHV, PHIDP, ZDR, VRADH, TH
4	47.2	1.5	239	360	500	DBZH, RHOHV, PHIDP, ZDR, VRADH, TH
5	47.2	2.4	239	360	500	DBZH, RHOHV, PHIDP, ZDR, VRADH, TH
6	47.2	4.5	239	360	500	DBZH, RHOHV, PHIDP, ZDR, VRADH, TH
7	47.2	8.5	239	360	500	DBZH, RHOHV, PHIDP, ZDR, VRADH, TH
8	47.2	10.0	239	360	500	DBZH, RHOHV, PHIDP, ZDR, VRADH, TH
9	47.2	13.0	239	360	500	DBZH, RHOHV, PHIDP, ZDR, VRADH, TH
10	47.2	15.0	239	360	500	DBZH, RHOHV, PHIDP, ZDR, VRADH, TH

DK/VIR and DK/BOR have slightly fewer scans but roughly cover the same elevation angle range. DK/VIR also has a 89 degree scan. /BK19

Radar overview

radar	type	radar end date	remarks
dkbor	C	active
dkrom	C	active
dksin	C	active
dkste	C	active
dkvir	C	active

Radar details

dkbor

dkrom

dksin

dkste

dkvir

Messier than other Danish radars. /CN19