cops_apar_data: data from Enviscope Parternavia Aircraft run by TU Delft/IRCTR during COPS 2007

Brandau, Christine

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Summary
The Partenavia aircraft flight mission is based on the accepted EUFAR (European Fleet for Aircraft Research) proposal OMAC (Observation Methodologies of the First Indirect Aerosol Effect in Water Clouds) for education and training, which is available at http://www.eufar.net (research projects, OMAC). The main purpose of this experiment is related to microphysical measurements within stratiform low level water clouds simultaneous to ground-based remote sensing observations.
The aircraft Partenavia is a small twin engine aircraft (length: 9.55 m; height: 3.40 m; wingspan: 12.00 m) with full IFR (Instrument Flight Rules) equipment and especially applicable for water cloud microphysical targets within all the special devices. Additionally low cruise speeds (min speed: 32 m/s, max speed: 96 m/s, usual speed during transit flights: 77 m/s) are advantageous in order to achieve a better spatial data resolution in close vicinity to the ground base stations. See http://www.enviscope.de, search for Airborne platform, Partenavia. The instrumentation of the aircraft covers water cloud microphysical targets (cloud liquid water content, cloud water droplet size, cloud water droplet concentration) as well as standard avionic and meteorological parameters (time, altitude, geo-position, pressure, temperature, humidity, relative/absolute humidity, dew point, water vapor, true air speed, relative wind, wind direction).
In the framework of COPS this experiment is divided into the category Stratus-Cloud-Physics of the COPS aircraft missions (http://www.cops2007.de/, search for general information) and altogether four different flight missions have been operated during SOP-1a, 2 to 4 (Special Observations Periods).
Project
COPS (Convective and Orographically-induced Precipitation Study)
Location(s)
COPS measurement region
Spatial Coverage
Longitude -10 to 10 Latitude 36 to 50 Altitude: 0 undefined_source_alt
Temporal Coverage
2007-06-01 to 2007-08-31 (calendrical)
Use constraints
For scientific use only. No commercial use allowed. Please be aware of the common COPS/GOP/D-PHASE data policy (http://cops.wdc-climate.de/)
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World Data Center for Climate
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400.44 KiB (410049 Byte)
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netCDF.gz
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metadata only
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Brandau, Christine (2009). cops_apar_data: data from Enviscope Parternavia Aircraft run by TU Delft/IRCTR during COPS 2007. World Data Center for Climate (WDCC) at DKRZ. http://cera-www.dkrz.de/WDCC/ui/Compact.jsp?acronym=cops_apar_data

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Christine Brandau
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Delft University of Technology
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Christine Brandau
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Delft University of Technology

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[1] DOI Wulfmeyer, V.; Flamant, C.; Behrendt, A.; Blyth, A.; Brown, A.; Dorninger, M.; Illingworth, A.; Mascart, P.; Montani, A.; Weckwerth, T. (2011). Advances in the understanding of convective processes and precipitation over low-mountain regions through the Convective and Orographically-induced Precipitation Study (COPS). doi:10.1002/qj.799
[2] DOI Wulfmeyer, V.; Flamant, C.; Behrendt, A.; Blyth, A.; Brown, A.; Dorninger, M.; Illingworth, A.; Mascart, P.; Montani, A.; Weckwerth, T (Eds.). (2011). Special Issue: Advances in the understanding of convective processes and precipitation over low-mountain regions through the Convective and Orographically-induced Precipitation Study (COPS). doi:10.1002/qj.v137.1s

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cops_apar: contains data from Enviscope Parternavia Aircraft during COPS Campaign
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[Entry acronym: cops_apar_data] [Entry id: 2230045]