Radar reflectivities at 94 GHz and microwave brightness temperature measurements at 89 GHz during the HALO-AC3 Arctic airborne campaign

• Main Authors: Mech, Mario, Risse, Nils, Krobot, Pavel, Paul, Daria, Schirmacher, Imke, Schnitt, Sabrina, Crewell, Susanne
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2024
• Subjects: AC; AC3; airborne; Aircraft; Arctic; Arctic Amplification; brightness temperature; clouds; CloudSat; CloudSat cloud-profiling radar; Date/Time of event; Doppler cloud radar; Radiometer Physics GmbH; RPG-FMCW-94-SP; Event label; HALO-AC3_20220320_P5_RF01; HALO-AC3_20220322_P5_RF03; HALO-AC3_20220325_P5_RF04; HALO-AC3_20220328_P5_RF05; HALO-AC3_20220329_P5_RF07; HALO-AC3_20220330_P5_RF08; HALO-AC3_20220401_P5_RF09; HALO-AC3_20220404_P5_RF10; HALO-AC3_20220405_P5_RF11; HALO-AC3_20220407_P5_RF12; HALO-AC3_20220410_P5_RF13; microwave; microwave radiometer; MiRAC-A; netCDF file; netCDF file (File Size); Optional event label; P5_232_HALO_2022_2203200401; P5_232_HALO_2022_2203220602; P5_232_HALO_2022_2203250701; P5_232_HALO_2022_2203280801; P5_232_HALO_2022_2203291002; P5_232_HALO_2022_2203301101; P5_232_HALO_2022_2204011201; P5_232_HALO_2022_2204041301; P5_232_HALO_2022_2204051401; P5_232_HALO_2022_2204071501; P5_232_HALO_2022_2204101601; P5-232_HALO_2022; Polar 5; radar; radar reflectivity; remote sensing; Svalbard; Norway
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.964977; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.964977

The published data set consists of measurements performed by the active cloud radar as part of the Microwave Radar and radiometer for Arctic Clouds (MiRAC; Mech et al., 2019) operated on board the Polar 5 research aircraft during 11 flights of the HALO-AC3 airborne campaign, carried out in early spring 2022 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 and brightness temperature measurements at 89 GHz with a 25 deg backward inclination with respect to the aircraft's fuselage. It should be considered 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).