Iceland Greenland seas Project (IGP): precipitation measurements from the University of Bergen Micro Rain Radar (MRR2) on board the NATO Research Vessel Alliance

This dataset contains measurements from the Micro Rain Radar (MRR2), manufactured by Meteorologische Messtechnik GmbH (Metek) installed onboard the NATO Research Vessel Alliance during the Iceland Greenland Seas Project.

The MRR2 is a frequency modulated (FM), continuous wave (CW) Radar (Radio Detection and Ranging) that obtains doppler spectral density at each range gate with a time resolution of 10 s. The terminal velocity of the precipitation targets (vT) is the primarily retrieved variable from these doppler spectral density observations. Additionally, drop size distribution and the corresponding moments, for example liquid water content (LWC), rain rate (RR) and Radar Reflectivity (Ze) are retrieved with post processing.

The initial installation location from 03-13 Feb 2018 was midship on the weatherdeck. At Reykjavik harbour the MRR2 worked as expected, while at sea artificial signals at three elevations appeared. The artificial signals were due to an interference on the power cable or power source. On 11 Feb 2018, a separate power source for the MRR2 could be secured, and it subsequently operated without interferences after ~12 UTC that day. For further details and figures on the MRR2 and its operation in the cruise please read the attached documentation.

Date (Publication): 2021-02-11T16:25:57

Date (Creation): 2021-02-11T16:25:57

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/dc723f82939843f199fff78778d5b8d0

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Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Unavailable	Sodemann, Harald	Unavailable	Author
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Custodian
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Owner
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Distributor
Unavailable	Renfrew, Ian	Unavailable	Principal investigator
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	pointofContact
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Publisher

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Keywords

IGP
meterological
buoy
ocean currents
wave height

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atmospheric conditions

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Spatial representation type: Grid

Language: English

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Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 2018-02-04T12:04:44

End date: 2018-03-19T12:49:26

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

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Data are netCDF formatted.

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Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Distributor

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	https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/dc723f82939843f199fff78778d5b8d0	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

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Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/igp/data/IGP_MRR2	DOWNLOAD

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Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk//badc/igp/data/IGP_MRR2/IGP_MRR2_documentation.pdf	Dataset documentation

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Title: Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Statement: Data collected during the IGP field campaign, then processed and quality controlled at the University of Bergen.

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Metadata language: English

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Parent identifier: In situ observations of air-sea interaction processes from the Iceland Greenland seas Project (IGP)
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Date stamp: 2026-01-15T03:20:14

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

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Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Point of contact

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