10.25592/UHHFDM.10089
Burgemeister, Finn
Finn
Burgemeister
0000-0001-5144-6326
Meteorological Institute, Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN), Universität Hamburg
Clemens, Marco
Marco
Clemens
Meteorological Institute, Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN), Universität Hamburg
Ament, Felix
Felix
Ament
Meteorological Institute, Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN), Universität Hamburg and Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg
Rainfall rates estimated from X-Band radar observations during FESSTVaL 2021
Universität Hamburg
2022
precipitation
rainfall
rain
high-resolution
radar
X-band
observations
measurement
FESSTVaL
SAMD
2022-03-08
en
https://www.fdr.uni-hamburg.de/record/10.25592/uhhfdm.10089
10.25592/uhhfdm.10090
0
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<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° 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.</p>
<p>Quality: <br>
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.</p>
<p>Instruments: <br>
local area weather radar / X-band weather radar FLK</p>
<p>Funding:</p>
<ul>
<li>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; </li>
<li>partly funded by the Hans Ertel Center for Weather Research within the project ‘Advancing the Representation of Convection across Scales (ARCS) - FKZ 4818DWDP1B.</li>
</ul>
Project: FESSTVaL (Field Experiment on submesoscale spatio-temporal variability in Lindenberg), a measurement campaign initiated by the Hans-Ertel-Center for Weather Research.
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