A unified data set of airborne cloud remote sensing using the HALO Microwave Package (HAMP)

Konow, Heike; Jacob, Marek; Ament, Felix; Crewell, Susanne; Ewald, Florian; Hagen, Martin; Hirsch, Lutz; Jansen, Friedhelm; Mech, Mario; Stevens, Bjorn

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-921-2019

Articles | Volume 11, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-921-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-921-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 11, issue 2

01 Jul 2019

| 01 Jul 2019

A unified data set of airborne cloud remote sensing using the HALO Microwave Package (HAMP)

Heike Konow, Marek Jacob, Felix Ament, Susanne Crewell, Florian Ewald, Martin Hagen, Lutz Hirsch, Friedhelm Jansen, Mario Mech, and Bjorn Stevens

Data sets

HALO Microwave Package measurements during Next-generation Remote sensing for VALidation Studies - North (NARVAL-North) H. Konow, M. Jacob, F. Ament, S. Crewell, F. Ewald, M. Hagen, L. Hirsch, F. Jansen, M. Mech, and B. Stevens https://doi.org/10.1594/WDCC/HALO_measurements_1

HALO Microwave Package measurements during Next-generation Remote sensing for VALidation Studies - South (NARVAL-South) H. Konow, M. Jacob, F. Ament, S. Crewell, F. Ewald, M. Hagen, L. Hirsch, F. Jansen, M. Mech, and B. Stevens https://doi.org/10.1594/WDCC/HALO_measurements_2

HALO Microwave Package measurements during Next-generation Remote sensing for VALidation Studies 2 (NARVAL2) H. Konow, M. Jacob, F. Ament, S. Crewell, F. Ewald, M. Hagen, L. Hirsch, F. Jansen, M. Mech, and B. Stevens https://doi.org/10.1594/WDCC/HALO_measurements_3

HALO Microwave Package measurements during North Atlantic Waveguide and Downstream impact EXperiment (NAWDEX) H. Konow, M. Jacob, F. Ament, S. Crewell, F. Ewald, M. Hagen, L. Hirsch, F. Jansen, M. Mech, and B. Stevens https://doi.org/10.1594/WDCC/HALO_measurements_4

Short summary

High-resolution measurements of maritime clouds are relatively scarce. Airborne cloud radar, microwave radiometer and dropsonde observations are used to expand these data. The measurements are unified into one data set to enable easy joint analyses of several or all instruments together to gain insight into cloud properties and atmospheric state. The data set contains measurements from four campaigns between December 2013 and October 2016 over the tropical and midlatitude Atlantic.