PAR009 Optical disdrometer data at Lutjewad

DOI:10.4121/8fa00e8d-4cc9-469e-a034-da5aab811f5a.v3
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DOI: 10.4121/8fa00e8d-4cc9-469e-a034-da5aab811f5a

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Schleiss, Marc; Castro, Andre; Mackenzie, Rob; Sourzac, Mahaut (2025): PAR009 Optical disdrometer data at Lutjewad. Version 3. 4TU.ResearchData. dataset. https://doi.org/10.4121/8fa00e8d-4cc9-469e-a034-da5aab811f5a.v3
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Dataset

Version 3 - 2025-03-28 (latest)
Version 2 - 2024-11-06 Version 1 - 2024-10-04
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Geolocation

lat (N): 53.40395079
lon (E): 6.35379317
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Time coverage

ongoing since June 2022

Licence

CC BY 4.0

Interoperability

Description: In-situ measurements of raindrop size distributions, fall velocities, drop number concentrations and surface rain rates recorded by an OTT Parsivel2 disdrometer named "PAR009" at a height of 3 meters at the Lutjewad atmospheric measurement station on the northern coast of the Netherlands, approximately 30 km northeast from the city of Groningen. "PAR009_Lutjewad" replaces "PAR008_Lutjewad" which was damaged on April 7, 2022 during a storm. The rural landscape to the south consists mainly of pasture and cropland with patches of forested land with livestock dominated by dairy cows and sheep. Set up directly behind the Wadden Sea dike, the site features a 60 meter tall sampling tower, a 10 meter platform, a laboratory building, and an aerosol laboratory container. The station monitors greenhouse gases and trace gas species, sampling aerosol number, size, and composition at different altitudes. Lutjewad is part of the European research infrastructure ICOS, providing continuous greenhouse gas concentrations. The coastal location means that the site samples relatively clean marine background air in conditions of northerly winds and more polluted air masses during conditions of south-easterly and south-westerly winds.


Format: Each NetCDF file covers a full month of observations. The temporal resolution is 1 minute. Data are provided "as is", without any post-processing. The NetCDF files contain all relevant information about all the variables, attributes and units. The global attributes of the NetCDF files contain important information about the type of sensor, logging software, project contributors and history of the dataset. If a monthly file is missing, no data are available for this month.


Relevance: Optical disdrometer data are useful for studying the type, dynamics and microphysics of precipitation from the perspective of a fixed observer on the ground. The data can be used to help calibrate weather radars, improve quantitative precipitation estimates, calculate the absorption/attenuation/propagation of electromagnetic signals through the atmosphere, and quantify important physical quantities such as liquid water content, rain amount, intensity and kinetic energy.


Note: This dataset is updated approximately every 3 months. Please reach out to the authors if you wish to get access to the most recent data.


Known issues:

  • Due to a sensor malfunction, the internal temperature values between November 2024 and February 2025 cannot be trusted. We hope to be able to fix this issue soon.

History

  • 2024-10-04 first online
  • 2025-03-28 published, posted

Publisher

4TU.ResearchData

Format

NetCDF

Funding

  • Ruisdael Observatory (grant code 184.034.015) [more info...] Dutch Research Council (NWO)

Organizations

TU Delft, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Department of Geoscience and Remote Sensing

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