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

• 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; Event label; Date/Time of event; Latitude of event; Longitude of event; Binary Object; 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

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. ...