Airborne radar reflectivity and brightness temperature measurements with POLAR 5 during ACLOUD in May and June 2017 ...

• Main Authors: Kliesch, Leif-Leonard, Mech, Mario
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2019
• Subjects: ACLOUD; airborne; Arctic; brightness temperature; clouds; FMCW; microwave; MiRAC; radar; radar reflectivity; radiometer; Event label; Date/Time of event; File name; File format; File size; Uniform resource locator/link to file; Aircraft; P5-206_ACLOUD_2017; POLAR 5; Arctic Amplification AC3; Arctic Ocean; Longyearbyen; Svalbard; Alfred Wegener Institute; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.899565; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.899565

During the Arctic CLoud Observations Using airborne measurements during polar Day (ACLOUD) campaign in summer 2017 conducted from Longyearbyen/Svalbard, a combination of active and passive microwave instruments MiRAC (Microwave Radar/radiometer for Arctic Clouds) has been operated on board of the Polar 5 research aircraft of the Alfred-Wegener Institute for polar and ocean research (AWI). MiRAC contains a Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) radar at 94 GHz mounted in a belly pod under 25deg backwards inclined with respect to nadir. Included is also the 89 GHz passive channel and a passive microwave instrument with six channels in the 183 GHz water vapor line and channels at 243 and 340 GHz installed nadir pointing in the cabin. The data set was collected during approximately 80 flight hours in May/June 2017 northwest of Svalbard over the Arctic ocean and sea ice. It contains the unfiltered reflectivity profiles as well as the filtered profiles. Both profiles are corrected for aircraft motion and ... : Please note, that on 2019-07-29 the lat/long within the netCDF files RF05, RF06 and RF07 was corrected. ...