Calibration of ground radars during the Mid latitude Continental Convective Cloud Experiment (MC3E)

This work provides a consistent table of the operational calibration biases of the primary ground radars in operation during the Mid Latitude Continental Convective Cloud Experiment (MC3E) in central Oklahoma. Inevitably, when operating radars small biases in the measurements get introduced from drifting performance of each of the many components that comprises the system, as well as from several different environmental variables. MC3E was a large joint campaign between the US Department of Energy and NASA consisting of many ground and airborne instruments working cooperatively to study mid latitude convective storms as part of the GPM Ground Validation field experiments. The primary ground radars have overlapping fields of view and are located nearby many other passive instruments such as disdrometers. Many of the ground radars have documented biases in their measurements that can have severe effects on derived products such as rainfall and attenuation corrected fields.