March 8, 2022 Dataset Open Access

Burgemeister, Finn; Clemens, Marco; Ament, Felix

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{"DOI":"10.25592/uhhfdm.10090","abstract":"<p>This data set contains rainfall rates estimated from X-band radar (WRX) observations during the Field Experiment on Sub-mesoscale Spatio-Temporal Variability in Lindenberg (FESSTVaL) from June to August 2021. This single-polarized, local area weather radar was located at the boundary layer field site of the German Weather Service (Deutscher Wetterdienst - DWD) at Falkenberg. The radar operated at an elevation angle of 2.3&deg; with a high temporal 30 s, range 60 m, and sampling 1&deg; resolution refining observations of the German nationwide C-band radars within a 20 km scan radius. The high-resolution rainfall rates are available as hourly NetCDF-files.</p>\n\n<p>Quality:&nbsp;<br>\nSeveral sources of radar-based errors were adjusted gradually affecting the precipitation estimate, e.g. the radar calibration, alignment, attenuation, noise, non-meteorological echoes. However, a few azimuth angles of the measurements are affected by beam blockage. The WRX&rsquo;s reflectivity values are calibrated and the derived rainfall rates are evaluated to measurements of a micro rain radar (MRR) located at the Lindenberg Meteorological Observatory &ndash; Richard Assmann Observatory (MOL-RAO) of the German Weather Service (DWD). The rainfall rates of the WRX and MRR are in good agreement.</p>\n\n<p>Instruments:&nbsp;<br>\nlocal area weather radar / X-band weather radar FLK</p>\n\n<p>Funding:</p>\n\n<ul>\n\t<li>partly funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany&lsquo;s Excellence Strategy &ndash; EXC 2037 &#39;CLICCS - Climate, Climatic Change, and Society&#39; &ndash; Project Number: 390683824, contribution to the Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN) of Universit&auml;t Hamburg; &nbsp;</li>\n\t<li>partly funded by the Hans Ertel Center for Weather Research within the project &lsquo;Advancing the Representation of Convection across Scales (ARCS) - FKZ 4818DWDP1B.</li>\n</ul>","author":[{"family":"Burgemeister, Finn"},{"family":"Clemens, Marco"},{"family":"Ament, Felix"}],"id":"10090","issued":{"date-parts":[[2022,3,8]]},"language":"eng","note":"Project: FESSTVaL (Field Experiment on submesoscale spatio-temporal variability in Lindenberg), a measurement campaign initiated by the Hans-Ertel-Center for Weather Research.","title":"Rainfall rates estimated from X-Band radar observations during FESSTVaL 2021","type":"dataset","version":"0"}