A year of attenuation data from a commercial dual-polarized duplex microwave link with concurrent disdrometer, rain gauge, and weather observations

Anna Špačková*, Vojt ch Bareš, Martin Fencl, Marc Schleiss, Joël Jaffrain, Alexis Berne, Jörg Rieckermann

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)4219-4240
Number of pages22
JournalEarth System Science Data
Volume13
Issue number8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021

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