Simulated microwave brightness temperatures based on two radiosoundings performed during the MOSAiC expedition

This data set contains simulated brightness temperatures in the microwave spectrum for a summer case and a winter case based on radiosoundings performed during the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition [1]. The simulations cover the frequencies 1-400 GHz and have been performed with the Passive and Active Microwave radiative TRAnsfer model (PAMTRA, [2]). Dimensions 'grid_x', 'grid_y', 'outlevel' can be truncated as they have the length 1. To get simulated brightness tempeartures (TBs) of a zenith-looking microwave radiometer, chose the last index of the dimension 'angles' (which is zenith angle 0°) and average over the 'passive_polarization' dimension. The data has been used to generate Fig. 1 of [3].

[1]: Maturilli, M., Holdridge, D. J., Dahlke, S., Graeser, J., Sommerfeld, A., Jaiser, R., Deckelmann, H., Schulz, A.: Initial radiosonde data from 2019-10 to 2020-09 during project MOSAiC [dataset publication series]. Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.928656, 2021.

[2]: Mech, M., Maahn, M., Kneifel, S., Ori, D., Orlandi, E., Kollias, P., Schemann, V., and Crewell, S.: PAMTRA 1.0: the Passive and Active Microwave radiative TRAnsfer tool for simulating radiometer and radar measurements of the cloudy atmosphere, Geoscientific Model Development, 13, 4229–4251, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-4229-2020, 2020.

[3]: Walbröl, A., Griesche, H. J., Mech, M., Crewell, S., and Ebell, K.: Combining low- and high-frequency microwave radiometer measurements from the MOSAiC expedition for enhanced water vapour products, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 17, 6223-6245, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-6223-2024, 2024.