Radar reflectivities at 94 GHz and microwave brightness temperature measurements at 89 GHz during the MOSAiC-ACA Arctic airborne campaign

• Main Authors: Mech, Mario, Risse, Nils, Crewell, Susanne, Kliesch, Leif-Leonard
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2022
• Subjects: AC; AC3; Active cloud radar; airborne; Aircraft; Arctic; Arctic Amplification; Binary Object; Binary Object (File Size); brightness temperature; clouds; CloudSat; Date/Time of event; Event label; Latitude of event; Longitude of event; microwave; 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_2009100901; P5_223_MOSAiC_ACA_2020_2009111001; P5_223_MOSAiC_ACA_2020_2009131101; P5-223_MOSAiC_ACA_2020; Polar 5; radar; radar reflectivity; remote sensing; Svalbard; Norway
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.944507; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.944507

The published data set consists of measurements performed by the active cloud radar as part of the MiRAC (Microwave Radar and radiometer for Arctic Clouds) operated on board the Polar 5 research aircraft during 10 flights of the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) Airborne observations in the Central Arctic (MOSAiC-ACA) campaign, carried out in late summer 2020 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 radar reflectivities of the FMCW 94 GHz cloud radar transformed to nadir view as well brightness temperature measurements at 89 GHz with a 25 deg backwards inclination with respect to the aircrafts fuselage. 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).