Particle size and velocity distributions from an OTT Parsivel optical disdrometer located at Mario Zucchelli Station, aggregated to 5min, monthly netCDF archive

Disdrometric data from an OTT Parsivel with 32 size classes and 32 velocity classes positioned at Mario Zucchelli Station (Antarctica), with monthly spectra and particle size distributions (PSD).

Date (Creation): 2023-05-07

Citation identifier: https://antarcticdatacenter.cnr.it/geonetwork/srv/api/records/ed6ea5bf-3f59-467b-9914-f4db387bb55d

Purpose: Charachterize solid precipitation over Antarctica with multiple ground-based sensors.

Status: On going

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
CNR - ISAC	Luca Baldini	l.baldini@isac.cnr.it	Principal investigator
CNR - ISAC	Alessandro Bracci	a.bracci@isac.cnr.it	Point of contact
Ca' Foscari University of Venice and CNR ISAC Rome	Giacomo Roversi	g.roversi@isac.cnr.it	Author

Maintenance and update frequency: Annually

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
CNR ISAC	Giacomo Roversi	g.roversi@isac.cnr.it	Author

SCAR Gazetteer of Antarctica

Terra Nova Bay
Victoria Land
Mario Zucchelli Station
Mario Zucchelli, Stazione
Inexpressible Island

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Atmospheric conditions
Meteorological geographical features
Protected sites

GCMD - Science Keywords

ATMOSPHERE
SNOW/ICE
PRECIPITATION
CLOUD MICROPHYSICS
WEATHER EVENTS
PARTICLE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS
PARTICLE DENSITY

GCMD - Providers

IT/PNRA

GCMD - Locations

ANTARCTICA

Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.

Antarctica

PNRA project

APP Antarctic Precipitation Properties PNRA14_00122

Use limitation: Creative-Commons CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Code: 2015/AZ3.02

Association Type: dependency

Initiative Type: Project

Code: Antarctic expeditions from XXXII to XL

Association Type: dependency

Initiative Type: Campaign

Spatial representation type: Text, table

Denominator: 1

Language: English

Character set: UTF8

Topic category

Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 2016-11-22

End date: 2024-12-31 Now

Unique resource identifier: WGS84

Distribution format

Name	Version
netCDF	4

Digital transfer options

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link	https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.7907496	MZS OTT Parsivel data archive on Zenodo

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Domain consistency

Conformance result

Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Explanation: This data set is conformant with the INSPIRE Implementing Rules for the interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Pass: Yes

Statement: Raw instrument telegram (text line) is gathered daily into a netCDF archive file. Original time resolution is 1 minute. Data is aggregated to 5 minutes and stored in monthly archives. Mid values and widths of the classes are provided. Monthly particle size distributions (PSD) and spectra are provided as well.