Mech, Mario; Risse, Nils; Kliesch, Leif-Leonard; Krobot, Pavel; Crewell, Susanne (2024): Microwave brightness temperature measurements during the ACLOUD Arctic airborne campaign in early summer 2017 out of Svalbard [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.965087
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Abstract:
The data set contains measurements performed by the passive radiometer as part of the Microwave Radar and radiometer for Arctic Clouds (MiRAC; Mech et al., 2019) operated on board the Polar 5 research aircraft during 19 flights of the Arctic CLoud Observations Using airborne measurements during polar Day (ACLOUD) campaign, carried out in early summer 2017 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 brightness temperature measurements at nadir view with respect to the aircraft's fuselage at six frequencies in the water vapor absorption band at around 183.31 GHz and two additional channels at 243 and 340 GHz. It should be considered 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).
Keyword(s):
References:
Mech, Mario; Kliesch, Leif-Leonard; Anhäuser, Andreas; Rose, Thomas; Kollias, Pavlos; Crewell, Susanne (2019): Microwave Radar/radiometer for Arctic Clouds (MiRAC): first insights from the ACLOUD campaign. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 12(9), 5019-5037, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-5019-2019
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:
Median Latitude: 78.245796 * Median Longitude: 15.503965 * South-bound Latitude: 78.245720 * West-bound Longitude: 15.503630 * North-bound Latitude: 78.245835 * East-bound Longitude: 15.504170
Date/Time Start: 2017-05-23T08:51:07 * Date/Time End: 2017-06-26T15:24:02
Event(s):
P5_206_ACLOUD_2017_1705230601 (RF04) * Latitude Start: 78.245819 * Longitude Start: 15.504000 * Latitude End: 78.245797 * Longitude End: 15.503944 * Date/Time Start: 2017-05-23T08:51:07 * Date/Time End: 2017-05-23T14:31:04 * Campaign: P5-206_ACLOUD_2017 (ACLOUD) * Basis: POLAR 5 * Method/Device: Aircraft (AC)
P5_206_ACLOUD_2017_1705250701 (RF05) * Latitude Start: 78.245793 * Longitude Start: 15.503991 * Latitude End: 78.245791 * Longitude End: 15.503885 * Date/Time Start: 2017-05-25T08:01:26 * Date/Time End: 2017-05-25T12:52:25 * Campaign: P5-206_ACLOUD_2017 (ACLOUD) * Basis: POLAR 5 * Method/Device: Aircraft (AC)
P5_206_ACLOUD_2017_1705270801 (RF06) * Latitude Start: 78.245792 * Longitude Start: 15.503888 * Latitude End: 78.245726 * Longitude End: 15.504026 * Date/Time Start: 2017-05-27T07:44:04 * Date/Time End: 2017-05-27T11:33:01 * Campaign: P5-206_ACLOUD_2017 (ACLOUD) * Basis: POLAR 5 * Method/Device: Aircraft (AC)
Parameter(s):
| # | Name | Short Name | Unit | Principal Investigator | Method/Device | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Event label | Event | Mech, Mario | |||
| 2 | Optional event label | Event 2 | Mech, Mario | |||
| 3 | Date/Time of event | Date/Time | Mech, Mario | |||
| 4 | netCDF file | netCDF | Mech, Mario | Microwave Radar and radiometer for Arctic Clouds (MiRAC) | ||
| 5 | netCDF file (File Size) | netCDF (Size) | Bytes | Mech, Mario | Microwave Radar and radiometer for Arctic Clouds (MiRAC) |
License:
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0)
Status:
Curation Level: Basic curation (CurationLevelB)
Size:
19 data points
Data
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| 1 Event | 2 Event 2 | 3 Date/Time | 4 netCDF | 5 netCDF (Size) [Bytes] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| P5_206_ACLOUD_2017_1705230601 | RF04 | 2017-05-23T08:51:07 | ACLOUD_P5_MiRAC-P_20170523_RF04.nc | 915 kBytes |
| P5_206_ACLOUD_2017_1705250701 | RF05 | 2017-05-25T08:01:26 | ACLOUD_P5_MiRAC-P_20170525_RF05.nc | 827.1 kBytes |
| P5_206_ACLOUD_2017_1705270801 | RF06 | 2017-05-27T07:44:04 | ACLOUD_P5_MiRAC-P_20170527_RF06.nc | 630.9 kBytes |
| P5_206_ACLOUD_2017_1705270902 | RF07 | 2017-05-27T12:46:48 | ACLOUD_P5_MiRAC-P_20170527_RF07.nc | 626.2 kBytes |
| P5_206_ACLOUD_2017_1705291001 | RF08 | 2017-05-29T04:39:57 | ACLOUD_P5_MiRAC-P_20170529_RF08.nc | 524.7 kBytes |
| P5_206_ACLOUD_2017_1705311101 | RF10 | 2017-05-31T14:52:36 | ACLOUD_P5_MiRAC-P_20170531_RF10.nc | 738.7 kBytes |
| P5_206_ACLOUD_2017_1706021201 | RF11 | 2017-06-02T08:12:32 | ACLOUD_P5_MiRAC-P_20170602_RF11.nc | 725.8 kBytes |
| P5_206_ACLOUD_2017_1706051301 | RF13 | 2017-06-05T10:11:00 | ACLOUD_P5_MiRAC-P_20170605_RF13.nc | 716.8 kBytes |
| P5_206_ACLOUD_2017_1706081401 | RF14 | 2017-06-08T07:22:08 | ACLOUD_P5_MiRAC-P_20170608_RF14.nc | 975.5 kBytes |
| P5_206_ACLOUD_2017_1706091501 | RF15 | 2017-06-09T07:45:30 | ACLOUD_P5_MiRAC-P_20170609_RF15.nc | 231.2 kBytes |
| P5_206_ACLOUD_2017_1706131601 | RF16 | 2017-06-13T14:23:57 | ACLOUD_P5_MiRAC-P_20170613_RF16.nc | 378.5 kBytes |
| P5_206_ACLOUD_2017_1706141701 | RF17 | 2017-06-14T12:33:49 | ACLOUD_P5_MiRAC-P_20170614_RF17.nc | 1.1 MBytes |
| P5_206_ACLOUD_2017_1706161801 | RF18 | 2017-06-16T04:32:03 | ACLOUD_P5_MiRAC-P_20170616_RF18.nc | 915 kBytes |
| P5_206_ACLOUD_2017_1706171901 | RF19 | 2017-06-17T09:47:54 | ACLOUD_P5_MiRAC-P_20170617_RF19.nc | 1018 kBytes |
| P5_206_ACLOUD_2017_1706182001 | RF20 | 2017-06-18T11:37:51 | ACLOUD_P5_MiRAC-P_20170618_RF20.nc | 1 MBytes |
| P5_206_ACLOUD_2017_1706202101 | RF21 | 2017-06-20T07:16:43 | ACLOUD_P5_MiRAC-P_20170620_RF21.nc | 1.1 MBytes |
| P5_206_ACLOUD_2017_1706232201 | RF22 | 2017-06-23T10:40:51 | ACLOUD_P5_MiRAC-P_20170623_RF22.nc | 690.8 kBytes |
| P5_206_ACLOUD_2017_1706252301 | RF23 | 2017-06-25T10:52:19 | ACLOUD_P5_MiRAC-P_20170625_RF23.nc | 1.1 MBytes |
| P5_206_ACLOUD_2017_1706262401 | RF25 | 2017-06-26T12:12:03 | ACLOUD_P5_MiRAC-P_20170626_RF25.nc | 478 kBytes |