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• Source: RPG Microwave Radiometer HATPRO, Generation 2
• Descriptive Instrument location: The instrument is part of the LACROS facility that was installed at the TROPOS field site of Melpitz, approximately 40 km NE of Leipzig.

• PID: de.koeln.rrzk/amd.de.hopm/lac.mwr00.l2.clwvi
• Level: 2
• Updated version: 00
• File format: NETCDF3_CLASSIC
• Convention: CF-1.6
• Average File Size Uncompressed: 2 Mb
• File name: hopm_lac_mwr00_l2_clwvi_v[VV]_[YYYYMMDDhhmmss].nc
• Start: 2013-09-04
• End: 2013-10-21

Name	Dimension	CF standard_name	long_name	Unit
clwvi	time	atmosphere_cloud_liquid_water_content	none	kg m-2
clwvi_err	n_ret	none	standard error of atmosphere cloud liquid water content at retrieval elevation angle	kg m-2
clwvi_off_zenith	time	none	off zenith path integrated liquid water	kg m-2
clwvi_off_zenith_offset	time	none	off zenith path integrated liquid water offset correction based on brightness temperature offset	kg m-2
clwvi_offset	time	none	atmosphere_cloud_liquid_water_content offset correction based on brightness temperature offset	kg m-2
clwvi_offset_zeroing	time	none	atmosphere_cloud_liquid_water_content clear sky zeroing offset correction	kg m-2
zsl	none	altitude	altitude above mean sea level	m

Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS), Leipzig, Germany

Patric Seifert (seifert@tropos.de)

S. Crewell and U. Loehnert,Accuraccy of cloud liquid water path from ground-based microwave radiometry. Part I. Dependency on Cloud model statistics.

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