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Articles | Volume 14, issue 1
Articles | Volume 14, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-33-2022
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Articles | Volume 14, issue 1
Data description paper
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10 Jan 2022
Data description paper |  | 10 Jan 2022

EUREC4A's Maria S. Merian ship-based cloud and micro rain radar observations of clouds and precipitation

Claudia Acquistapace, Richard Coulter, Susanne Crewell, Albert Garcia-Benadi, Rosa Gierens, Giacomo Labbri, Alexander Myagkov, Nils Risse, and Jan H. Schween

Data sets

Rain observations from a Micro rain radar MRR-PRO deployed on R/V Maria S. Merian during EUREC4A campaign C. Acquistapace, A. Garcia-Benadi, J. H. Schween, R. Haseneder-Lind, D. Klocke, H. Kalesse-Los, R. L. Coulter, and S. M. Bormet https://doi.org/10.25326/233

Liquid water path and Doppler radar moments observations from the 94 GHz FMCW-band radar deployed on R/V Maria S. Merian during EUREC4A campaign - V2 C. Acquistapace, N. Risse, J. Röttenbacher, J. H. Schween, R. Haseneder-Lind, D. Klocke, H. Kalesse-Los, R. L. Coulter, S. M. Bormet, A. Myagkov, and T. Rose https://doi.org/10.25326/235

W band radar dataset C. Acquistapace, N. Risse, J. H. Schween, R. Haseneder-Lind, J. Roettenbacher, D. Klocke, H. Kalesse-Los, S. Bormet, R. L. Coulter, A. Myagkov, and T. Rose https://doi.org/10.25326/156

Model code and software

python3/matlab code for correction for ship motions, data analysis and plots related to data publication ESSD https://essd.copernicus.org/preprints/essd-2021-265/ C. Acquistapace https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5014088

Repository for RPG W-band radar data post-processing J. Bravo Aranda, R. Gierens, N. Küchler, L. Pfitzenmaier, and M. Mech https://github.com/ClauClouds/w-radar

Codes for ship motion corrections, data analysis and plots related to essd-2021-265 C. Acquistapace, G. Labbri, and N. Risse https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5714474

Video supplement

One month in the middle of the ocean, doing research: how does it look like? C. Acquistapace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdWNS77qMNA

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Short summary
This publication describes the unprecedented high-resolution cloud and precipitation dataset collected by two radars deployed on the Maria S. Merian research vessel. The ship operated in the west Atlantic Ocean during the measurement campaign called EUREC4A, between 19 January and 19 February 2020. The data collected are crucial to investigate clouds and precipitation and understand how they form and change over the ocean, where it is so difficult to measure them.
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