Radar and ground-level measurements collected during the POPE 2020 campaign at Princess Elisabeth Antarctica

This repository contain the datasets of radar and ground-level measurements collected in the vicinity of the Belgian research base Princess Elisabeth Antarctica (PEA).

The measurement campaign has been conducted by the Environmental Remote Sensing Laboratory (LTE) of the Scole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), with the logistical support of the International Polar Foundation (IPF).

The datasets and their processing are described in the article “Radar and ground-level measurements of clouds and precipitation collected during the POPE 2020 campaign at Princess Elisabeth Antarctica”, by Alfonso Ferrone and Alexis Berne, submitted to Earth System Science Data in July 2022.

Content
The datasets have been divided into compressed archives. Each of them contains a series of data files, all saved in NetCDF4 format.
The content of each archives is listed below.

- WProf.zip
This archive contains the radar variables collected by the W-band Doppler profiling cloud radar (WProf) deployed at PEA.
The liquid water path and integrated water vapor (retrieved thanks to the 89 GHz radiometer included in the instrument) has also been included in the files.

- MXPol_PPI.zip
This archive contains the polarimetric radar variables collected by the X-band Doppler dual-polarization scanning weather radar (MXPol) during the nearly-vertical PPI scans.

- MXPol_sector_scans_2019.zip
This archive contains the polarimetric radar variables collected by MXPol during the sector scans (PPI scans limited to a sector of the full azimuth circle) scans performed in December 2019. Sector scans collected in the following months have been stored separately, due to a limitation on the maximum number of files in input to the creation of the zip archive.

- MXPol_sector_scans_2020.zip
This archive contains the polarimetric radar variables collected by MXPol during the sector scans scans performed in January and February 2020.

- MXPol_hydrometeor_types.zip
This archive contains the polarimetric radar variables collected by MXPol during the RHI scans. The files also contain information on the proportion of hydrometeor classes and the dominant hydrometeor type computed from the measurements of MXPol.

- MRR_PRO_06.zip,  MRR_PRO_22.zip, and MRR_PRO_23.zip
The three archives contain the radar variables collected by the K-band Doppler profiling radars (MRR-PRO) deployed in a transect across the mountain range south of PEA.

- aws_radiometers.zip
This archive contains the measurements collected by the Automated Weather Station (AWS) installed alongside each of the three MRR-PRO. The data from the two radiometers deployed at the MRR-PRO 06 site have also been included in the archive.