Nakoudi, Konstantina; Ritter, Christoph (2021): Cirrus cloud properties over Ny-Alesund as retrieved from lidar measurements (2011-2020) [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.938295
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Abstract:
The present dataset reports the properties of cirrus clouds over the research site of Ny-Alesund, Svalbard, as retrieved from lidar measurements from 2011 to 2020. Several essential geometrical (cloud thickness (GT), cloud base and top heights) and optical properties (Cloud Optical Depth (COD), lidar ratio (LR), linear particle depolarization ratio (LPDR) and color ratio (CR)) were derived. Additionally, meteorological parameters (temperature, wind speed and wind direction) were extracted from AWIPEV radiosonde ascents. The meteorological parameters were subsetted within the altitude of cirrus clouds and only measurements up to 2 hours apart from the cirrus observations were used. In this way, the meteorological parameters can be considered representative of the prevailing meteorological conditions in the presence of cirrus clouds. The original radiosonde datasets are already available at doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.914973.
Related to:
Maturilli, Marion (2020): High resolution radiosonde measurements from station Ny-Ålesund (2017-04 et seq). Alfred Wegener Institute - Research Unit Potsdam, PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.914973
Nakoudi, Konstantina; Ritter, Christoph (2020): AWI cirrus cloud retrieval scheme (v1.0.0). Zenodo, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4265007
Nakoudi, Konstantina; Ritter, Christoph; Stachlewska, Iwona S (2021): Properties of Cirrus Clouds over the European Arctic (Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard). Remote Sensing, 13(22), 4555, https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13224555
Nakoudi, Konstantina; Stachlewska, Iwona S; Ritter, Christoph (2021): An extended lidar-based cirrus cloud retrieval scheme: first application over an Arctic site. Optics Express, 29(6), 8553, https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.414770
Project(s):
Arctic Amplification (AC3)
Funding:
German Research Foundation (DFG), grant/award no. 268020496: TRR 172: ArctiC Amplification: Climate Relevant Atmospheric and SurfaCe Processes, and Feedback Mechanisms
Coverage:
Latitude: 78.922700 * Longitude: 11.927300
Date/Time Start: 1992-08-01T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1992-08-01T00:00:00
Minimum Elevation: 11.0 m * Maximum Elevation: 11.0 m
Event(s):
NYA (Ny-Ålesund) * Latitude: 78.922700 * Longitude: 11.927300 * Date/Time: 1992-08-01T00:00:00 * Elevation: 11.0 m * Location: Ny-Ålesund, Spitsbergen * Campaign: AWIPEV_based * Basis: AWIPEV * Method/Device: Monitoring station (MONS) * Comment: BSRN station no: 11; Surface type: tundra; Topography type: mountain valley, rural; Horizon: doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.669522; Station scientist: Marion.Maturilli@awi.de
Comment:
DateTime/Start: 2011-08-11 and DateTime/End: 2020-05-17
License:
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC-BY-SA-4.0)
Status:
Curation Level: Basic curation (CurationLevelB)
Size:
82.8 kBytes