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, Kliesch, Leif-Leonard, Crewell, Susanne
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2024
• Subjects: AC; AC3; airborne; airborne measurements; Aircraft; Arctic; Arctic Amplification; brightness temperature; clouds; CloudSat; Date/Time of event; Event label; microwave; Microwave Radar and radiometer for Arctic Clouds; MiRAC; MOSAiC; MOSAiC20192020; MOSAiC-ACA; MOSAiC expedition; Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate; netCDF file; netCDF file (File Size); 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.965115; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.965115

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 7 flights of the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) Airborne observations in the Central Arctic (MOSAiC-ACA; Mech et al., 2022) 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 as 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) and on the dataset and its usage in Mech et al. (2022).