Air Temperature data, Meteorological network observations by WXT weather stations during FESSTVaL 2021

DOI:10.25592/uhhfdm.9765

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Dataset Author

Kirsch, Bastian (1); Hohenegger, Cathy (2); Klocke, Daniel (2); Ament, Felix (1), Institution: (1) Meteorologisches Institut, Universität Hamburg; (2) Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie, Hamburg

Description

This data set contains meteorological network observations collected during the Field Experiment on Sub-mesoscale Spatio-Temporal Variability in Lindenberg (FESSTVaL) from May to August 2021. The observational set up consisted of a ground-based network of 99 autonomous measurement stations that covered an circular area of 30 km in diameter centered around the Meteorological Observatory Lindenberg (eastern Germany; 52.16°N, 14.12°E). The primary goal of the network measurements was to observe the spatial structure of convective cold pools at sub-mesoscale resolution (100 m - 10 km). During the experiment, 82 low-cost and custom-designed APOLLO (Autonomous cold POoL LOgger) stations sampled air temperature and pressure at 1-s resolution, while 21 WXT weather stations based on commercial sensors provided additional information on relative humidity, wind speed and precipitation at 10-s resolution. The data of all network stations is stored in daily files separated after station type and measurement variable.

Limitations: Absolute accuracy of temperature (pressure) generally better than +/- 0.5 K (1 hPa), however, the instrument design focused on the relative accuracy of measurements. The overall data availability of temperature measurements for APOLLO (WXT) stations is 92.0 % (98.1 %). Maintenance logbook and site picutures are attached for further interpretation of measurements.
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Instrument 1

Source: 19x WXT weather station
Descriptive Instrument location: Circular area of about 30 km in diameter centered around the Meteorological Observatory Lindenberg (eastern Germany; latitude 52.16°N, longitude 14.12°E)
Instruments altitude: 42 - 98 [m]
Coordinates (Latitude, Longitude): 52.04486 - 52.28156 °N 13.90631 - 14.33995 °E
Height: 3 [m]
Horizontal resolution: 100-4800 [m]
Vertical resolution: none [m]
Time resolution: 10 [s]

Global information

PID: de.hamburg.icdc/amd.de.fval/uhh.wxt00.l2.ta
Standard: SAMD v2.2
Project: FESST
Level: 2
Updated version: 00
File format: NETCDF4
Convention: CF-1.7 where applicable
Average File Size Uncompressed: 1.5 Mb
File name: fval_uhh_wxt00_l2_ta_v[VV]_[YYYYMMDDhhmmss].nc
Start: 2021-05-17
End: 2021-08-27

Variables

Name	Dimension	CF standard_name	long_name	Unit
ta	time, station	air_temperature	air temperature	K
zsl	station	altitude	altitude of instrument location above mean sea level	m

Institution

(1) Meteorologisches Institut, Universität Hamburg; (2) Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie, Hamburg

Contact Person(s)

Felix Ament (felix.ament (at) uni-hamburg.de), Meteorological Institute, University of Hamburg

References

Kirsch, Bastian, Hohenegger, Cathy, Klocke, Daniel, & Ament, Felix. (2022). Meteorological network observations by APOLLO and WXT weather stations during FESSTVaL 2021 (Version 00-2) [Data set]. http://doi.org/10.25592/uhhfdm.10179

Licence

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 .