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 NameDescription
0-DMRReconstructed, unprocessed Dynamic Microwave Radiometer (DMR) data at full resolution, with any and all communications artifacts removed

Level 1 Products

Product NameDescription
1A-PWRReceived power from each Dynamic Atmospheric Radar (DAR), calibrated and geolocated [dB]
1B-TBCalibrated Dynamic Microwave Radiometer (DMR) brightness temperature (Tb) [K]
1B-ZMEquivalent radar reflectivity factor [dBZ] and surface normalized radar cross section [dB]
1C-DMRCross calibrated Level 1B radiometer data for INCUS observed storms
1C-ZRGPointing corrected calibrated reflectivity [dBZ] on a regular grid
1C-ZACAdvection-corrected gridded reflectivities [dBZ]

Level 2 Products

Product NameDescription
2B-MASSVertical profile of condensate for each radar profile [kg m-3]
2B-MASS-RATEProfile of temporal change in condensate for each radar pair [kg m-3 s-1]
2B-FLUXESProfile of vertical mass flux of air and condensed water estimated for every detected updraft [kg m-2 s-1]
2B-DT2-minute evolution of local advection, condensate and vertical fluxes in each cloud column
2A-HDIce Water Path (IWP) [kg m-2] derived from the radiometer brightness temperature L1B-Tb

Level 3 and 4 Products

Product NameDescription
3A-LIFEStorm-centric Level 2 and AUX data reported at half-hourly temporal resolution, labeled by storm
3B-CONVStorm-wide statistics of vertical flux and environmental data, labeled by storm
4-CONVConvection nowcasting system machine learning from 3B-CONV

Auxiliary Products

Product NameDescription
AUX-GEOIRLifecycle from geo-IR, convection type from cold Tbs, anvil size from IR Tb threshold
AUX-LIGHTLightning locations and flash rates from ground-based networks and spaceborne sensors
AUX-REANALLarge-scale environmental variables include CAPE, RH, T and shear
AUX-RSURFSurface precipitation from Integrated Multi-satellite Retrievals and GPM (IMERG)
AUX-PMWIWP, 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