Microwave brightness temperature measurements during the ACLOUD Arctic airborne campaign in early summer 2017 out of Svalbard

• Main Authors: Mech, Mario, Risse, Nils, Kliesch, Leif-Leonard, Krobot, Pavel, Crewell, Susanne
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2024
• Subjects: AC; AC3; ACLOUD; airborne; airborne measurements; Aircraft; Arctic; Arctic Amplification; brightness temperature; clouds; Date/Time of event; Event label; microwave; Microwave Radar and radiometer for Arctic Clouds; MiRAC; netCDF file; netCDF file (File Size); Optional event label; P5_206_ACLOUD_2017_1705230601; P5_206_ACLOUD_2017_1705250701; P5_206_ACLOUD_2017_1705270801; P5_206_ACLOUD_2017_1705270902; P5_206_ACLOUD_2017_1705291001; P5_206_ACLOUD_2017_1705311101; P5_206_ACLOUD_2017_1706021201; P5_206_ACLOUD_2017_1706051301; P5_206_ACLOUD_2017_1706081401; P5_206_ACLOUD_2017_1706091501; P5_206_ACLOUD_2017_1706131601; P5_206_ACLOUD_2017_1706141701; 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; P5_206_ACLOUD_2017_1706252301; P5_206_ACLOUD_2017_1706262401; P5-206_ACLOUD_2017; Polar 5; remote sensing; RF04; RF05; RF06; RF07; RF08; RF10; RF11; RF13; RF14; Svalbard; Norway
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.965087; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.965087

The data set contains measurements performed by the passive radiometer 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 19 flights of the Arctic CLoud Observations Using airborne measurements during polar Day (ACLOUD) campaign, carried out in early summer 2017 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 aircraft's fuselage at six frequencies in the water vapor absorption band at around 183.31 GHz and two additional channels at 243 and 340 GHz. 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).