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: AC; AC3; AFLUX; airborne measurements; Aircraft; Arctic; Arctic Amplification; Binary Object; Binary Object (File Size); brightness temperature; clouds; Date/Time of event; Event label; ICI; Latitude of event; Longitude of event; microwave; Microwave Radar and radiometer for Arctic Clouds; MiRAC; P5_216_AFLUX_2019_1903190201; P5_216_AFLUX_2019_1903210301; P5_216_AFLUX_2019_1903230401; P5_216_AFLUX_2019_1903240501; P5_216_AFLUX_2019_1903250602; P5_216_AFLUX_2019_1903300701; P5_216_AFLUX_2019_1903310801; P5_216_AFLUX_2019_1904010901; P5_216_AFLUX_2019_1904031002; P5_216_AFLUX_2019_1904041101; P5_216_AFLUX_2019_1904061202; P5_216_AFLUX_2019_1904071301; P5_216_AFLUX_2019_1904081401; P5_216_AFLUX_2019_1904111501; P5-216_AFLUX_2019; Polar 5; remote sensing; RF02; RF03; RF04; RF05; RF06; RF07; RF08; RF09; RF10; RF11; RF12; RF13; RF14; Norway; Svalbard
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.944057; https://doi.org/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 format for each flight separately. Details on the instrument can be found in Mech et al. (2019, doi:10.5194/amt-12-5019-2019).