APP (YOPP) - Antarctic precipitation properties from ground-based instruments
Characterization of effective precipitation that occurs at ground of Antarctica region, plays a crucial rules in defining and validating global climate models and numerical weather prediction model. The observatory is designed to be set up at the Italian Antarctic station Mario Zucchelli integrating the current instrumentation for weather measurements with other instruments specific for precipitation observations. In particular, a 24-GHz vertical pointing radar, Micro Rain Radar, and an optical disdrometer, Parsivel will be integrated with the advanced weather stations, radiosoundings and the ceilometer. The synergetic use of the set of instruments allows for characterizing precipitation and studying properties of Antarctic precipitation such as dimension, shapes, fall behavior, density of particles, particles size distribution, particles terminal velocity, reflectivity factor and including some information on their vertical extent. The project is for four years, it started in July 2017 and will be active until July 2020, covering the Special Observation Period (SOP) in the Southern Hemisphere of Year of Polar Predicition (YOPP) period. APP can be provide specific measurements for precipitation occurring over the Antarctic coast at high temporal resolution, in particular specific snow products such as snow rate, snow depth and their water equivalent.
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- Date ( Creation )
- 2017-07-07
- Identifier
- 2015/AZ3.02
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- Purpose
- The main focus of the project Antarctic precipitation properties from ground-based instruments (APP) is to set up an observatory for investigating precipitation in Antarctica.
- Status
- On going
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ( Theme )
- Continents, countries, sea regions of the world. ( Place )
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- Antarctica
- GCMD - Providers ( Theme )
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- IT/PNRA
- Projects ( Theme )
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- YOPP
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- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- No conditions apply to access and use
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- Spatial representation type
- Text, table
- Denominator
- 1
- Metadata language
- en
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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- Begin date
- 2016-11-15
- End date
- 2022-12-31 Now
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS84
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Domain consistency
Conformance result
- 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
- File identifier
- dc941200-9195-47db-9e94-ef3acd115869 XML
- Metadata language
- en
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2023-05-10T14:51:11
- Metadata standard name
- ISO 19115-3
- Metadata standard version
- 1.0
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