7 years of Micro Rain Radar (METEK MRR-2) data at the Dumont d'Urville station, coastal Adélie Land, Antarctica

This dataset presents data from a precipitation radar (METEK MRR-2) deployed in late 2015 at the Dumont d'Urville station located on the Petrels Island, coastal Adélie Land, East Antarctica (longitude 140.0014, latitude -66.6628, elevation 41m) in the context of the APRES3 project (Antarctic Precipitation, Remote Sensing from Surface and Space, see Genthon et al. 2018). 7 years of MRR (Micro Rain Radar) data from November 2015 to April 2023 included are gathered, ranging from 300 m to 3000 m a.g.l. with a vertical resolution of 100 m. Files attached contain the 1-min MRR source variables (radar reflectivity, Doppler velocity, signal-to-noise ratio and a quality flag) computed with the Maahn and Kollias (2012) algorithm in zipped netCDF format. Approximately 6% of timesteps are missing due to maintenance operations or power outages. Profiles are filled with NaNs when no precipitation signal is detected. This dataset also contains the MRR hourly precipitation profile estimates in mm/hr, that could for instance be used for climate model evaluation along the vertical. Wiener et al. (2023) presents and analyses the 7 years of data, and particularly details the processing steps used to obtain the MRR precipitation profiles by means of a local Z-S relation with a colocated snow gauge. 1-min data from the snow gauge are also available to enable users to derive their own Z-S relation with different processing steps.

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Wiener, Valentin, Genthon, Christophe, Berne, Alexis (2023). Dataset: 7 years of Micro Rain Radar (METEK MRR-2) data at the Dumont d'Urville station, coastal Adélie Land, Antarctica. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.962727

DOI retrieved: 2023

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Imported on November 30, 2024
Last update November 30, 2024
License CC-BY-4.0
Source https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.962727
Author Wiener, Valentin
Given Name Valentin
Family Name Wiener
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Genthon, Christophe
Berne, Alexis
Source Creation 2023
Publication Year 2023
Resource Type text/tab-separated-values - filename: Wiener-etal_2022
Subject Areas
Name: Lithosphere

Related Identifiers
Title: A 7-year record of vertical profiles of radar measurements and precipitation estimates at Dumont d'Urville, Adélie Land, East Antarctica
Identifier: https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-821-2024
Type: DOI
Relation: References
Year: 2024
Source: Earth System Science Data
Authors: Wiener Valentin , Roussel Marie-Laure , Genthon Christophe , Vignon Etienne , Grazioli Jacopo , Berne Alexis , Genthon Christophe , Berne Alexis , Grazioli Jacopo , Durán-Alarcón Claudio , Praz Christophe , Boudevillain Brice , Maahn Maximilian , Kollias Pavlos .

Title: Precipitation at Dumont d'Urville, Adélie Land, East Antarctica: the APRES3 field campaigns dataset
Identifier: https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-1605-2018
Type: DOI
Relation: References
Year: 2018
Source: Earth System Science Data
Authors: Wiener Valentin , Roussel Marie-Laure , Genthon Christophe , Vignon Etienne , Grazioli Jacopo , Berne Alexis , Genthon Christophe , Berne Alexis , Grazioli Jacopo , Durán-Alarcón Claudio , Praz Christophe , Boudevillain Brice , Maahn Maximilian , Kollias Pavlos .

Title: Improved Micro Rain Radar snow measurements using Doppler spectra post-processing
Identifier: https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-5-2661-2012
Type: DOI
Relation: References
Year: 2012
Source: Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
Authors: Wiener Valentin , Roussel Marie-Laure , Genthon Christophe , Vignon Etienne , Grazioli Jacopo , Berne Alexis , Genthon Christophe , Berne Alexis , Grazioli Jacopo , Durán-Alarcón Claudio , Praz Christophe , Boudevillain Brice , Maahn Maximilian , Kollias Pavlos .