Dual-channel microwave radiometer measurements and retrievals

ASCOS was an interdisciplinary expedition to the central Arctic on the icebreaker Oden from 1 August to 9 September 2008. The expedition focused on processes related to cloud formation in the summer Arctic and included observations of marine biology and chemistry, atmospheric chemistry, physical oceanography, aerosol chemistry and physics, and meteorology. This ASCOS data set includes measurements from a ground-based, vertically-pointing, dual-channel (23 and 30-GHz) microwave radiometer system and retrievals from that system of the total cloud liquid water path and precipitable water vapor in the vertical atmospheric column.