Cloudnet ice particles effective radius during POLARSTERN cruise PS106

• Main Authors: Griesche, Hannes, Seifert, Patric, Engelmann, Ronny, Radenz, Martin, Bühl, Johannes
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2019
• Subjects: AC3; Arctic Amplification; ARK-XXXI/1.1,PASCAL; Cloudnet; DATE/TIME; Event label; File format; File name; File size; ice effective radius; LiDAR; OCEANET-ATMOSPHERE; PASCAL; Polarstern; PS106; PS106_0_Underway-11; PS106_0_Underway-17; PS106/1; Remote sensing (Light detection and ranging; LiDAR); Uniform resource locator/link to file; Arctic; Mira
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.900111; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.900111

The dataset contains daily nc-files of the Cloudnet ice particles effective radius during Polarstern cruise PS106 based on: - 35.5 GHz Cloud radar MIRA. The data is retrieved using the instrument synergystic approach Cloudnet (Illingworth, 2007, doi:10.1175/BAMS-88-6-883). This variable was calculated from visible extinction coefficient and ice water content using the following analytical formula: r_eff[\\mum] = 3*IWC[g cm-3] / (2 rho_i \\alpha[m-1]) 10**6 with rho_i=0.917g cm-3 the desity of solid ice. This retrieval is based on an analytical relationship between IWC and \\alpha. However both parameters have been retrieved following Hogan 2006 (doi:10.1175/JAM2340.1) by using two different empirical formulas based on the same measured quantity, the 35.5-GHz radar reflectivity factor.