Radar reflectivities at 94 GHz and microwave brightness temperature measurements at 89 GHz during the AFLUX Arctic airborne campaign in spring 2019 out of Svalbard

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The published data set consists of measurements performed by the active cloud radar as part of the MiRAC (Microwave Radar and radiometer for Arctic Clouds) operated on board the Polar 5 research aircraft during 14 flights of the Airborne measurements of radiative and turbulent FLUXes of energy and momentum in the Arctic boundary layer (AFLUX) campaign, carried out in spring 2019 northwest of Svalbard (Norway). The measurement campaign is embedded in the Transregional Collaborative Research Centre TR 172 (ArctiC Amplification: Climate Relevant Atmospheric and SurfaCe Processes, and Feedback Mechanisms (AC)3. The published data set consists of radar reflectivities of the FMCW 94 GHz cloud radar transformed to nadir view as well brightness temperature measurements at 89 GHz with a 25 deg backwards inclination with respect to the aircrafts fuselage. It should be considerd, that the brightness temperatures have not been corrected for aircraft attitude. The data set has been quality checked and is available in netcdf format for each flight separately.Details on the instrument can be found in Mech et al. (2019).

The files contain radar reflectivities, brightness temperatures, measurement times, flags for the filters applied, and some key numbers of the operated instrument. In addition, meta information and attributes are provided. The files are in netcdf format following CF-1.8.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.944506
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-5019-2019
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.932294
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.944506
Provenance
Creator Mech, Mario ORCID logo; Risse, Nils ORCID logo; Crewell, Susanne ORCID logo; Kliesch, Leif-Leonard (ORCID: 0000-0002-6474-571X)
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2022
Funding Reference Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven https://doi.org/10.13039/501100003207 Crossref Funder ID AFMOSAiC-1_00 Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate; Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven https://doi.org/10.13039/501100003207 Crossref Funder ID AWI_PS122_00 Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate / MOSAiC; German Research Foundation https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001659 Crossref Funder ID 268020496 https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/268020496 TRR 172: ArctiC Amplification: Climate Relevant Atmospheric and SurfaCe Processes, and Feedback Mechanisms
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Representation
Language English
Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 14 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (15.502W, 78.246S, 15.502E, 78.246N); Svalbard
Temporal Coverage Begin 2019-03-19T15:59:56Z
Temporal Coverage End 2019-04-11T15:20:04Z