de.hamburg.icdc/amd.de.fval/uhh.wrxFLK00.l2.rr SAMD v2.1 en FESSTVAL fval_uhh_wrxFLK00_l2_rr Rainfall rates estimated from X-Band radar observations during FESSTVaL 2021, data version 00 DOI:10.25592/uhhfdm.10090 Finn Burgemeister, Marco Clemens, and Felix Ament Meteorological Institute, Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN), Universität Hamburg, and Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg CF-1.6 where applicable external NETCDF4 de 100 daily 2 This data is subject to the FESSTVaL data policy to be found at https://doi.org/10.25592/uhhfdm.9890 and in the SAMD Observation Data Product Standard https://doi.org/10.25592/uhhfdm.9902 . none Meteorological Institute, Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN), Universität Hamburg Clemens Marco +49 40 42838 0 marco.clemens@uni-hamburg.de 2021-06-03 2021-08-30 30 1 none Falkenberg, Germany 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. Some days have missing data, see this list of days and percentage available data: 10.07.2021 = 96 %; 09.08.2021 = 83 %; 23.08.2021 = 98 %; 24.08.2021 = 0 %; 25.08.2021 = 68 % local area weather radar / X-band weather radar FLK 52.167648 14.120446 72 none Horizontal resolution: 1° azimuth, 60 m range

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2014 Lengfeld, K., Clemens, M., Münster, H., and Ament, F. none Atmos. Meas. Tech., 7, 4151–4166, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-4151-2014,

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2022 Burgemeister, Finn; Clemens, Marco; Ament, Felix; none http://doi.org/10.25592/uhhfdm.10090 Short term observations Local observations Instrument groups Radar 360 120 333 azimuth azimuth sensor_azimuth_angle degrees time time time time days since 1970-01-01 range range distance from sensor to center of each range gates along the line of sight meters rr time, azimuth, range rainfall_rate mm/h lat azimuth, range latitude degrees_north lon azimuth, range longitude degrees_east ele sensor elevation angle degrees azimuth_offset offset sensor azimuth angle degrees lat_center latitude latitude of instrument location degrees_north lon_center longitude longitude of instrument location degrees_east zsl_center altitude altitude of instrument above mean sea level meters calibration_coefficient calibration coefficient 1