This article illustrates the high quality of dual-polarized data available from the CSU-CHILL radar system after installation of the new 8.5 m Dual-offset antenna. Measurements of stratiform rainfall are used to highlight the characteristics of the antenna and radar.
The in house designed digital receiver / signal processing systems used in the CSU-CHILL and Pawnee radars continued to be tested and refined during 2007. (They were initially fielded on both radars during the summer of 2006). CSU-CHILL operations were suspended in July 2007 to prepare the Greeley radar site for the installation of the new dual offset feed antenna.