Integrated water vapour derived from the MiRAC-P microwave radiometer onboard the Polarstern during the MOSAiC expedition

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The data set contains daily files of path integrated amount of water vapour (precipitable water, prw) derived from the MiRAC-P (or LHUMPRO-243-340) microwave radiometer (see Mech et al., 2019) onboard the Polarstern during cruise PS122 (MOSAiC expedition). The data covers the range October 2019 to October 2020. MiRAC-P measures atmospheric radiation in six double side band averaged G band (183.31 +/- 0.6 to 183.31 +/- 7.5 GHz) and two higher frequency (243 and 340 GHz) channels. The different sensitivity to humidity of the channels allow a derivation of the path integrated amount of water vapour (prw). A Neural Network retrieval has been used to derive prw. The uncertainty of prw is given as the variable's comment attribute and describes the expected standard error. Prw is provided for all available times so that it is up to the user to decide whether or not to use the values if quality flags are set.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.941470
Related Identifier IsDocumentedBy https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-5019-2019
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.941470
Provenance
Creator Walbröl, Andreas ORCID logo; Orlandi, Emiliano; Crewell, Susanne ORCID logo; Ebell, Kerstin ORCID logo
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
Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 346 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-6.126W, 78.687S, 137.750E, 88.414N); Arctic Ocean; North Greenland Sea
Temporal Coverage Begin 2019-10-22T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2020-10-02T03:59:00Z