Vertically pointing doppler radar profiles (24 GHz Metek MRR-2) at Mario Zucchelli Station, aggregated to 5min, monthly netCDF archive

• Main Authors: Baldini Luca, Bracci Alessandro, Roversi Giacomo
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: Zenodo 2023
• Subjects: Antarctica; Atmosphere; Precipitation; Snow; Ice; Radar; Radar reflectivity; Doppler; Vertical wind speed; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7907541

Vertical profiles along the first 1050m of atmosphere above the ground of equivalent radar reflectivity factor (Ze), Doppler velocity (W) and Doppler spectral width (Sw) from a 24-GHz vertically pointing Micro Rain Radar MRR-2 by METEK GmbH positioned at Mario Zucchelli Station (Antarctica, -74.6945 N, 164.1152 E, 15 m a.s.l.). Metadata available at https://antarcticdatacenter.cnr.it/geonetwork/srv/api/records/6fe32f1f-247e-493d-9cd3-88714e5b38ef Example of netCDF file structure: Source : output/MRR/mrr_202211.nc Format : netcdf4_classic Global Attributes : title = 'Micro rain radar data processed with IMProToo (Maahn, M. and Kollias, P., 2012), aggregated to 5min, monthly netCDF archive.' comment = 'IMProToo has been developed for improved snow measurements. Note that this data has been processed regardless of precipitation type.' time_label = 'Nov 2022' institution = 'CNR-ISAC, Rome (IT)' contact_person = 'Baldini Luca, CNR-ISAC, Rome, [e-mail]' source = 'Micro Rain Radar 2 (MRR-2), METEK GmbH, at MZS (Antarctica), frequency: 24 GHz, power: 50 mW, antenna diameter: 60 cm [https://metek.de/product/mrr-2/]' location = 'Mario Zucchelli Station (74°42'S, 164°07'E, 15 m a.s.l.)' author = 'Roversi Giacomo' creation_date = '05-May-2023 10:30:21 UTC' coverage = 'Monthly coverage (Nov 2022): 26.6667 %' time_resolution = '5 minutes' history = 'Created with IMProToo v0.107 [https://github.com/maahn/IMProToo], aggregated to 5 minutes temporal resolution with an average of the 1-minute values if least 3 out of 5 are not NaN.' Dimensions : time = 2228 (UNLIMITED) range = 31 Variables : time_UTC Size : 2228x1 Dimensions : time Datatype : int32 Attributes : description = 'Measurement time. Timestamp indicates the end of the aggregation interval, e.g. 01-Mar-2020 00:05:00 represents the average of the variables between 01-Mar-2020 00:00:01 and 01-Mar-2020 00:05:00.' time_zone = 'UTC' units = 'Seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 (Unix time).' height Size : 31x2228 Dimensions : range,time Datatype : single Attributes ...