Cloud top altitude retrieved from Lidar measurements during MOSAiC-ACA at 1 second resolution

• Main Authors: Kulla, Birte Solveig, Mech, Mario, Risse, Nils, Ritter, Christoph
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2021
• Subjects: AC; AC3; airborne; airborne lidar; airborne measurements; Airborne Mobile Aerosol Lidar; aircraft; AMALi; Arctic; Arctic Amplification; Binary Object; Binary Object (File Size); cloud; cloud top altitude; Date/Time of event; Event label; Latitude of event; Lidar; Longitude of event; mixed-phase clouds; MOSAiC; MOSAiC20192020; MOSAiC-ACA; MOSAiC expedition; Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate; P5_223_MOSAiC_ACA_2020_2009020501; P5_223_MOSAiC_ACA_2020_2009040601; P5_223_MOSAiC_ACA_2020_2009070701; P5_223_MOSAiC_ACA_2020_2009080801; P5_223_MOSAiC_ACA_2020_2009111001; P5-223_MOSAiC_ACA_2020; Polar 5; Svalbard; Svalbard Archipelago; Berichte zur Polar- und Meeresforschung; Reports on Polar and Marine Research
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.932456; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.932456

During the MOSAiC-ACA aircraft campaign (31.8.2020 - 13.9.2020) the AMALi Lidar was installed nadir pointing. This dataset contains the cloud top altitudes below the aircraft (altitudes with strong signal increase), as well as a cloud mask, derived from the optical depth of the column. The majority of the data was collected northwest of the Svalbard archipelago. More details on the campaign can be found here (https://home.uni-leipzig.de/~ehrlich/MOSAiC_ACA_wiki_doku). Please check the data documentation before using this dataset.