INCUS Products
Once launched, INCUS will produce a variety of different products available to the scientific community to advance our understanding of clouds and storms.
Each product derived from the INCUS constellation is categorized into levels based on the amount of processing done, or as an auxiliary product for those variables derived solely from external sources.
Level 0 Products
| Product Name | Description |
|---|---|
| 0-DMR | Reconstructed, unprocessed Dynamic Microwave Radiometer (DMR) data at full resolution, with any and all communications artifacts removed |
Level 1 Products
| Product Name | Description |
|---|---|
| 1A-PWR | Received power from each Dynamic Atmospheric Radar (DAR), calibrated and geolocated [dB] |
| 1B-TB | Calibrated Dynamic Microwave Radiometer (DMR) brightness temperature (Tb) [K] |
| 1B-ZM | Equivalent radar reflectivity factor [dBZ] and surface normalized radar cross section [dB] |
| 1C-DMR | Cross calibrated Level 1B radiometer data for INCUS observed storms |
| 1C-ZRG | Pointing corrected calibrated reflectivity [dBZ] on a regular grid |
| 1C-ZAC | Advection-corrected gridded reflectivities [dBZ] |
Level 2 Products
| Product Name | Description |
|---|---|
| 2B-MASS | Vertical profile of condensate for each radar profile [kg m-3] |
| 2B-MASS-RATE | Profile of temporal change in condensate for each radar pair [kg m-3 s-1] |
| 2B-FLUXES | Profile of vertical mass flux of air and condensed water estimated for every detected updraft [kg m-2 s-1] |
| 2B-DT | 2-minute evolution of local advection, condensate and vertical fluxes in each cloud column |
| 2A-HD | Ice Water Path (IWP) [kg m-2] derived from the radiometer brightness temperature L1B-Tb |
Level 3 and 4 Products
| Product Name | Description |
|---|---|
| 3A-LIFE | Storm-centric Level 2 and AUX data reported at half-hourly temporal resolution, labeled by storm |
| 3B-CONV | Storm-wide statistics of vertical flux and environmental data, labeled by storm |
| 4-CONV | Convection nowcasting system machine learning from 3B-CONV |
Auxiliary Products
| Product Name | Description |
|---|---|
| AUX-GEOIR | Lifecycle from geo-IR, convection type from cold Tbs, anvil size from IR Tb threshold |
| AUX-LIGHT | Lightning locations and flash rates from ground-based networks and spaceborne sensors |
| AUX-REANAL | Large-scale environmental variables include CAPE, RH, T and shear |
| AUX-RSURF | Surface precipitation from Integrated Multi-satellite Retrievals and GPM (IMERG) |
| AUX-PMW | IWP, height H05 of 0.05 g m-3 condensate, height of 0.2 g m-3 condensate, and IWP(from 500m AMSL up to 7500m AMSL) - IWP(from 7500m AMSL up to H05), from mm-wave radiometer constellation |