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doi: 10.4121/8aea9874-18a6-4711-af10-207da08a4b5b

Schleiss, Marc; Castro, Andre; Mackenzie, Rob; Sourzac, Mahaut (2024): PAR008 Optical disdrometer data at Cabauw. Version 1. 4TU.ResearchData. dataset. https://doi.org/10.4121/8aea9874-18a6-4711-af10-207da08a4b5b.v1

Dataset

• Atmospheric Sciences
• Atmosphere and Weather
• Earth Sciences
• Environment

disdrometer, DSD, Parsivel, precipitation, raindrop size distributions, rainfall, RITA2021, Ruisdael

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From 2021-10 to 2022-02

CC BY 4.0

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by Marc Schleiss , Andre Castro , Rob Mackenzie , Mahaut Sourzac

Description: In-situ measurements of raindrop size distributions, fall velocities, drop number concentrations and surface rain rates recorded by an OTT Parsivel2 disdrometer named "PAR008" at a height of 1 meter on the wind profiler site of Cabauw. This sensor was deployed in support of the Ruisdael RITA2021 calibration campaign. Two other disdrometers "PAR001_Cabauw" and "PAR002_Cabauw" are located approximately 100 meters away on the remote sensing site. The site also features a vertically profiling micro-rain radar named "MRR002_Cabauw".

Format: Each NetCDF file covers a full month of observations. The temporal resolution is 1 minute. Data are provided "as is", without any post-processing. The NetCDF files contain all relevant information about all the variables, attributes and units. The global attributes of the NetCDF files contain important information about the type of sensor, logging software, project contributors and history of the dataset. If a monthly file is missing, no data are available for this month.

Relevance: Optical disdrometer data are useful for studying the type, dynamics and microphysics of precipitation from the perspective of a fixed observer on the ground. The data can be used to help calibrate weather radars, improve quantitative precipitation estimates, calculate the absorption/attenuation/propagation of electromagnetic signals through the atmosphere, and quantify important physical quantities such as liquid water content, rain amount, intensity and kinetic energy.

• 2024-10-04 first online, published, posted

4TU.ResearchData

NetCDF

• Ruisdael Observatory (grant code 184.034.015) [more info...] Dutch Research Council (NWO)

TU Delft, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Department of Geoscience and Remote Sensing