Operating RDA/HydroClass with IRIS/Radar

IRIS/Radar is a typical method of operating a radar equipped with RVP10 signal processing.

The most convenient mode of using HydroClass at these radars is to activate it at RVP10 and run it within standard IRIS tasks configured to H+V polarization mode and to the RVP10 major mode of pulse-pair-processing (PPP).

In a given IRIS task, you can switch on HydroClass in the data pop-up in the Processor Configuration block by enabling:

• HClass data type
• Required data types

Given a valid HydroClass configuration file, and valid melting layer height input (if specified that way in HydroClass configuration) no other action is necessary. HydroClass generates the HClass data type in the ingest data stream, analogously to other data types.