Microwave brightness temperature measurements during the AFLUX Arctic airborne campaign in spring 2019 out of Svalbard ...

The data set contains measurements performed by the passive radiometer as part of the MiRAC (Microwave Radar and radiometer for Arctic Clouds) operated on board the Polar 5 research aircraft during 14 flights of the Airborne measurements of radiative and turbulent FLUXes of energy and momentum in th...

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Main Authors: Mech, Mario, Risse, Nils, Kliesch, Leif-Leonard, Crewell, Susanne, Kulla, Birte Solveig, Krobot, Pavel
Format: Dataset
Language:English
Published: PANGAEA 2022
Subjects:
AFLUX
airborne measurements
Arctic
Arctic Amplification
brightness temperature
clouds
ICI
microwave
Polar 5
remote sensing
Svalbard
water vapor
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Date/Time of event
Latitude of event
Longitude of event
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Binary Object File Size
Aircraft
Microwave Radar and radiometer for Arctic Clouds
P5_216_AFLUX_2019
POLAR 5
Arctic Amplification AC3
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.944057
https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.944057
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Summary:The data set contains measurements performed by the passive radiometer as part of the MiRAC (Microwave Radar and radiometer for Arctic Clouds) operated on board the Polar 5 research aircraft during 14 flights of the Airborne measurements of radiative and turbulent FLUXes of energy and momentum in the Arctic boundary layer (AFLUX) campaign, carried out in spring 2019 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 aircrafts fuselage at six frequencies in the water vapor absorption band at around 183.31 GHz and at two additional channels at 243 and 340 GHz. It should be considerd, that the brightness temperatures have not been corrected for aircraft attitude. The data set has been quality checked and is available in netcdf ... : The files contain brightness temperatures, measurement times, and some key numbers of the operated instrument. In addition meta information and attributes are provided. The files are in netcdf format following CF-1.8. ...

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