Ceilometer cloud base height from station Ny-Ålesund from August 1992 to July 2017, reference list of 290 datasets
Clouds are a key factor for the Arctic amplification of global warming, but their actual appearance and distribution are still afflicted by large uncertainty. On the Arctic-wide scale, large discrepancies are found between the various reanalyses and satellite products, respectively. Although ground-...
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ftpangaea:oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.880300 2023-05-15T14:52:01+02:00 Ceilometer cloud base height from station Ny-Ålesund from August 1992 to July 2017, reference list of 290 datasets Maturilli, Marion Herber, Andreas LATITUDE: 78.922700 * LONGITUDE: 11.927300 * DATE/TIME START: 1992-08-02T00:02:00 * DATE/TIME END: 2017-07-31T23:59:00 2017-09-12 290 datasets https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.880300 https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.880300 en eng PANGAEA Maturilli, Marion; Ebell, Kerstin (2018): Twenty-five years of cloud base height measurements by ceilometer in Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard. Earth System Science Data, 10(3), 1451-1456, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-1451-2018 Maturilli, Marion (2022): Ceilometer cloud base height from station Ny-Ålesund (2017-08 et seq). Alfred Wegener Institute - Research Unit Potsdam, PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.942331 Expanded measurements from station Ny-Ålesund (1992-2017), zip of all data files (URI: https://store.pangaea.de/Publications/Maturilli_Herber_2018/NYA_expanded_1992-2017.zip) https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.880300 https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.880300 CC-BY-3.0: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Access constraints: unrestricted info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess CC-BY AC3 Arctic Amplification AWI_Meteo Baseline Surface Radiation Network BSRN Meteorological Long-Term Observations @ AWI Monitoring station MONS NYA Ny-Ålesund Spitsbergen Dataset 2017 ftpangaea https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.880300 https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-1451-2018 https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.942331 2023-01-20T09:09:30Z Clouds are a key factor for the Arctic amplification of global warming, but their actual appearance and distribution are still afflicted by large uncertainty. On the Arctic-wide scale, large discrepancies are found between the various reanalyses and satellite products, respectively. Although ground-based observations by remote sensing are limited to point measurements, they have the advantage of obtaining extended time series of vertically resolved cloud properties. Here, we present a 25-year data record of cloud base height measured by ceilometer at the Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard, Arctic site. We explain the composition of the three sub-periods with different instrumentation contributing to the data set, and show examples of potential application areas. Linked to cyclonic activity, the cloud base height provides essential information for the interpretation of the surface radiation balance and contributes to the understanding of meteorological processes. Furthermore, it is a useful auxiliary component for the analysis of advanced technologies that provide insight into cloud microphysical properties, like the cloud radar. The long-term time series also allows derivation of an annual cycle of the cloud occurrence frequency, revealing the more frequent cloud cover in summer and the lowest cloud cover amount in April. However, as the use of different ceilometer instruments over the years potentially imposed inhomogeneities onto the data record, any long-term trend analysis should be avoided. Dataset Arctic Global warming Ny Ålesund Ny-Ålesund Svalbard Spitsbergen PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science Arctic Svalbard Ny-Ålesund ENVELOPE(11.927300,11.927300,78.922700,78.922700) |
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AC3 Arctic Amplification AWI_Meteo Baseline Surface Radiation Network BSRN Meteorological Long-Term Observations @ AWI Monitoring station MONS NYA Ny-Ålesund Spitsbergen Maturilli, Marion Herber, Andreas Ceilometer cloud base height from station Ny-Ålesund from August 1992 to July 2017, reference list of 290 datasets |
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Clouds are a key factor for the Arctic amplification of global warming, but their actual appearance and distribution are still afflicted by large uncertainty. On the Arctic-wide scale, large discrepancies are found between the various reanalyses and satellite products, respectively. Although ground-based observations by remote sensing are limited to point measurements, they have the advantage of obtaining extended time series of vertically resolved cloud properties. Here, we present a 25-year data record of cloud base height measured by ceilometer at the Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard, Arctic site. We explain the composition of the three sub-periods with different instrumentation contributing to the data set, and show examples of potential application areas. Linked to cyclonic activity, the cloud base height provides essential information for the interpretation of the surface radiation balance and contributes to the understanding of meteorological processes. Furthermore, it is a useful auxiliary component for the analysis of advanced technologies that provide insight into cloud microphysical properties, like the cloud radar. The long-term time series also allows derivation of an annual cycle of the cloud occurrence frequency, revealing the more frequent cloud cover in summer and the lowest cloud cover amount in April. However, as the use of different ceilometer instruments over the years potentially imposed inhomogeneities onto the data record, any long-term trend analysis should be avoided. |
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Ceilometer cloud base height from station Ny-Ålesund from August 1992 to July 2017, reference list of 290 datasets |
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Ceilometer cloud base height from station Ny-Ålesund from August 1992 to July 2017, reference list of 290 datasets |
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Ceilometer cloud base height from station Ny-Ålesund from August 1992 to July 2017, reference list of 290 datasets |
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Ceilometer cloud base height from station Ny-Ålesund from August 1992 to July 2017, reference list of 290 datasets |
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Ceilometer cloud base height from station Ny-Ålesund from August 1992 to July 2017, reference list of 290 datasets |
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ceilometer cloud base height from station ny-ålesund from august 1992 to july 2017, reference list of 290 datasets |
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LATITUDE: 78.922700 * LONGITUDE: 11.927300 * DATE/TIME START: 1992-08-02T00:02:00 * DATE/TIME END: 2017-07-31T23:59:00 |
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Arctic Svalbard Ny-Ålesund |
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Arctic Global warming Ny Ålesund Ny-Ålesund Svalbard Spitsbergen |
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Arctic Global warming Ny Ålesund Ny-Ålesund Svalbard Spitsbergen |
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Maturilli, Marion; Ebell, Kerstin (2018): Twenty-five years of cloud base height measurements by ceilometer in Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard. Earth System Science Data, 10(3), 1451-1456, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-1451-2018 Maturilli, Marion (2022): Ceilometer cloud base height from station Ny-Ålesund (2017-08 et seq). Alfred Wegener Institute - Research Unit Potsdam, PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.942331 Expanded measurements from station Ny-Ålesund (1992-2017), zip of all data files (URI: https://store.pangaea.de/Publications/Maturilli_Herber_2018/NYA_expanded_1992-2017.zip) https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.880300 https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.880300 |
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