Radar reflectivities at 94 GHz and microwave brightness temperature measurements at 89 GHz during the HALO-AC3 Arctic airborne campaign

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The published data set consists of measurements performed by the active cloud radar 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 11 flights of the HALO-AC3 airborne campaign, carried out in early spring 2022 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 and brightness temperature measurements at 89 GHz with a 25 deg backward inclination with respect to the aircraft's fuselage. 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).

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.964977
Related Identifier References https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.968883
Related Identifier References 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.964977
Provenance
Creator Mech, Mario ORCID logo; Risse, Nils ORCID logo; Krobot, Pavel; Paul, Daria; Schirmacher, Imke ORCID logo; Schnitt, Sabrina; Crewell, Susanne ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2024
Funding Reference 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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Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 11 data points
Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics
Spatial Coverage (15.502W, 78.246S, 15.504E, 78.246N); Arctic
Temporal Coverage Begin 2022-03-20T10:58:59Z
Temporal Coverage End 2022-04-10T14:19:30Z