Scripts for producing the W-band radar data sets collected at AWIPEV, Ny-Ålesund

• Main Authors: Gierens, Rosa Tuulia, Küchler, Nils, Pfitzenmaier, Lukas, Bravo-Aranda, Juan Antonio
• Format: Software
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: atmospheric science; cloud radar; data processing; Arctic; Svalbard; Ny-Ålesund; Ny Ålesund
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/7916162; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7916162

Continuous cloud radar observations are carried out at the high-Arctic site AWIPEV in Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard, since 2016. Two zenith-pointing 94 GHz (W-band) frequency modulated continuous wave Doppler radars, named JOYRAD-94 and MiRAC-A, have been operated alternatingly. Data sets from these radars collected in 2016-2022 are currently under review in Pangaea. The radar data was post-processed to correct for Doppler aliasing and the radar calibration was adjusted based on a reference radar. These scripts were used to process the data from the lv0 file provided by the instrument software, to quality controlled and corrected data products. This work was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation), under Project no. 268020496 — TRR 172, within the Transregional Collaborative Research Center "ArctiC Amplification: Climate Relevant Atmospheric and SurfaCe Processes, and Feedback Mechanisms (AC)3."