WIVERN tropical cyclone studies - hurricane Milton case study

WIVERN (Wind Velocity Radar Nephoscope) is a future ESA Earth-observation satellite mission, under the Eart Explorer 11 program, aiming at measuring winds within clouds globally using advanced spaceborne radar technology, filling a major observational gap in weather and climate monitoring.This repository was created in compliance with the Earth and Space Science journal's data availabilty guidelines for the submission of the manuscript titled "Peering inside tropical cyclones with the WIVERN space-borne Doppler radar", by A. Battaglia et al.WRF simulation outputs for hurricane Milton are included as netCDF files. The cyclone was considered as an outstanding for the studies carried out, the following dates and times are available, corresponding to the WIVERN obervations simulations:October 7th at 00:00 UTCOctober 7th at 11:00 UTCOctober 7th at 12:00 UTCOctober 8th at 00:00 UTCFour different simulations of the WIVERN radar instrument Level-1 observables from the end-to-end simulator developed at Politecnico di Torino are included. The simulations use the WRF outputs of hurricane Milton as inputs to produce synthetic measurements from the on-board radar instrument. The four netCDF files in the repository represent the following cases:First of two consecutive WIVERN overpasses for Hollande's model (pass labeled "2" in the manuscript, on 2024-10-07 at 00:00 UTC)Second of two consecutive WIVERN overpasses for Hollande's model (pass labeled "3", on 2024-10-08 at 00:00 UTC)Case study for WIVERN Level-3 winds field reconstruction (satellite overpass at ~250 km from cyclone's eye, on 2024-10-07 at 12:00 UTC)Case study for WIVERN Level-3 Ice Water Content field reconstruction (satellite overpass at ~250 km from cyclone's eye, on 2024-10-07 at 11:00 UTC)This work has been supported by:the European Space Agency under the activities “WInd VElocity Radar Nephoscope (WIVERN) Phase A Science and Requirements Consolidation Study” (ESA Contract Number RFP/3-18420/24/NL/IB/ab) ;the Italian Space Agency (ASI) project “Scientific studies for the Wind Velocity Radar Nephoscope (WIVERN) mission” (Project number: 2023-44-HH.0);the Space It Up project funded by the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and the Ministry of University and Research (MUR) under contract no. 2024-5-E.0 – CUP no. I53D24000060005.