March 8, 2022 Dataset Open Access

Burgemeister, Finn; Clemens, Marco; Ament, Felix

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  <dc:creator>Burgemeister, Finn</dc:creator>
  <dc:creator>Clemens, Marco</dc:creator>
  <dc:creator>Ament, Felix</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>2022-03-08</dc:date>
  <dc:description>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° with a high temporal 30 s, range 60 m, and sampling 1° 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.

Quality: 
Several 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’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 – Richard Assmann Observatory (MOL-RAO) of the German Weather Service (DWD). The rainfall rates of the WRX and MRR are in good agreement.

Instruments: 
local area weather radar / X-band weather radar FLK

Funding:


	partly funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany‘s Excellence Strategy – EXC 2037 'CLICCS - Climate, Climatic Change, and Society' – Project Number: 390683824, contribution to the Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN) of Universität Hamburg;  
	partly funded by the Hans Ertel Center for Weather Research within the project ‘Advancing the Representation of Convection across Scales (ARCS) - FKZ 4818DWDP1B.
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  <dc:identifier>https://www.fdr.uni-hamburg.de/record/10090</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>10.25592/uhhfdm.10090</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>oai:fdr.uni-hamburg.de:10090</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>eng</dc:language>
  <dc:relation>doi:10.25592/uhhfdm.10089</dc:relation>
  <dc:rights>info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess</dc:rights>
  <dc:rights>https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/1.0/legalcode</dc:rights>
  <dc:subject>precipitation</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>rainfall</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>rain</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>high-resolution</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>radar</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>X-band</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>observations</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>measurement</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>FESSTVaL</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>SAMD</dc:subject>
  <dc:title>Rainfall rates estimated from X-Band radar observations during FESSTVaL 2021</dc:title>
  <dc:type>info:eu-repo/semantics/other</dc:type>
  <dc:type>dataset</dc:type>
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