Liquid Water Path over sea ice free Arctic ocean derived from passive microwave airborne measurements during ACLOUD in May/June 2017

Vertical column integrated liquid water, Liquid Water Path (LWP), is retrieved from the 89 GHz channel of MiRAC (Microwave Radar/radiometer for Arctic Clouds). MiRAC is flown with 25deg inclination backward from nadir against flight direction on Polar 5, the research aircraft of the Alfred-Wegener I...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kliesch, Leif-Leonard, Mech, Mario
Format: Dataset
Language:English
Published: PANGAEA 2021
Subjects:
AC
AC3
ACLOUD
airborne
Aircraft
Arctic
Arctic Amplification
Arctic clouds
Binary Object
Binary Object (File Size)
cloud
Date/Time of event
Date/Time of event 2
Event label
liquid water path
LWP
microwave radiometer
MiRAC
P5_206_ACLOUD_2017
P5_206_ACLOUD_2017_1705250701
P5_206_ACLOUD_2017_1705270801
P5_206_ACLOUD_2017_1705270902
P5_206_ACLOUD_2017_1706021201
P5_206_ACLOUD_2017_1706081401
P5_206_ACLOUD_2017_1706091501
P5_206_ACLOUD_2017_1706131601
P5_206_ACLOUD_2017_1706161801
P5_206_ACLOUD_2017_1706171901
P5_206_ACLOUD_2017_1706182001
P5_206_ACLOUD_2017_1706202101
P5_206_ACLOUD_2017_1706232201
Polar 5
RF05
RF06
RF07
RF11
RF14
RF15
RF16
RF18
RF19
RF20
RF21
RF22
Alfred Wegener Institute
Arctic Ocean
Longyearbyen
Sea ice
Svalbard
Online Access:https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.933387
https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.933387
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Summary:Vertical column integrated liquid water, Liquid Water Path (LWP), is retrieved from the 89 GHz channel of MiRAC (Microwave Radar/radiometer for Arctic Clouds). MiRAC is flown with 25deg inclination backward from nadir against flight direction on Polar 5, the research aircraft of the Alfred-Wegener Institute for polar and ocean research (AWI). Polar 5 flew during the campaign Arctic CLoud Observations Using airborne measurements during polar Day (ACLOUD) in summer 2017 conducted from Longyearbyen/Svalbard. The data set was collected during approximately 12 flight hours in May/June 2017 northwest of Svalbard over the sea-ice-free Arctic Ocean. It contains retrieved LWP with a status-flag indicating sea ice/sea ice floes, land, sensor inaccuracies, flight position depending on pitch and roll angle, and flight altitude. The data set is completed by information recorded by the aircraft system (latitude, longitude, flight altitude) and is stored in netCDF format.

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