TY - JOUR
T1 - A year of attenuation data from a commercial dual-polarized duplex microwave link with concurrent disdrometer, rain gauge, and weather observations
AU - Špačková, Anna
AU - Bareš, Vojt ch
AU - Fencl, Martin
AU - Schleiss, Marc
AU - Jaffrain, Joël
AU - Berne, Alexis
AU - Rieckermann, Jörg
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Commercial microwave links (CMLs) in telecommunication networks can provide relevant information for remote sensing of precipitation and other environmental variables, such as path-averaged drop size distribution, evaporation, or humidity. The CoMMon field experiment (COmmercial Microwave links for urban rainfall MONitoring) mainly focused on the rainfall observations by monitoring a 38ĝ€¯GHz dual-polarized CML of 1.85ĝ€¯km path length at a high temporal resolution (4ĝ€¯s), as well as a co-located array of five disdrometers and three rain gauges over 1 year. The dataset is complemented with observations from five nearby weather stations. Raw and pre-processed data, which can be explored with a custom static HTML viewer, are available at 10.5281/zenodo.4923125 . The data quality is generally satisfactory for further analysis, and potentially problematic measurements are flagged to help the analyst identify relevant periods for specific study purposes. Finally, we encourage potential applications and discuss open issues regarding future remote sensing with CMLs.
AB - Commercial microwave links (CMLs) in telecommunication networks can provide relevant information for remote sensing of precipitation and other environmental variables, such as path-averaged drop size distribution, evaporation, or humidity. The CoMMon field experiment (COmmercial Microwave links for urban rainfall MONitoring) mainly focused on the rainfall observations by monitoring a 38ĝ€¯GHz dual-polarized CML of 1.85ĝ€¯km path length at a high temporal resolution (4ĝ€¯s), as well as a co-located array of five disdrometers and three rain gauges over 1 year. The dataset is complemented with observations from five nearby weather stations. Raw and pre-processed data, which can be explored with a custom static HTML viewer, are available at 10.5281/zenodo.4923125 . The data quality is generally satisfactory for further analysis, and potentially problematic measurements are flagged to help the analyst identify relevant periods for specific study purposes. Finally, we encourage potential applications and discuss open issues regarding future remote sensing with CMLs.
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U2 - 10.5194/essd-13-4219-2021
DO - 10.5194/essd-13-4219-2021
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85114024969
SN - 1866-3508
VL - 13
SP - 4219
EP - 4240
JO - Earth System Science Data
JF - Earth System Science Data
IS - 8
ER -