DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18474615
title: Atmospheric visibility measurements at Hartheim Forest Research Site (DE-Har) from 2023-01-01 to 2023-12-31 [L2]

description: Quality controlled and gap-filled continuous atmospheric visibility data (Meteorological Observable Range MOR) measured above the forest canopy on a tower at Hartheim Forest Research Site (ICOS Associate Ecosystem Site DE-Har, UFR Code: HARTHM, 7.59814ºE, 47.93391ºN, 201 m) using an a forward scatter system (CS125, Present Weather and Visibility sensor, Campbell Scientific Inc.) operated 20 m above ground level.



Quality controlled atmospheric visibility data are available and aggregated at 10min, 30min, hourly, daily, monthly and yearly resolution for the year 2023.

Average, minimum and maximum visibility are provided on hourly, daily, monthly and annual scales.

Hours and days with at least one minute of a visibility of less than 20, 10, 4, 2, 1, 0.5 and 0.2 km based on the WMO classes are provided on daily, monthly and annual scales. Can be used to determine frequency of fog conditions.

Hours and days with at least one minute of a visibility of greater than 50 km are provided on daily, monthly and annual scales.

Maximum visibility output by the CS125 is 75 km, so a value of 75 km means greater or equal 75 km. Averaged visibility accounts for values greater than 75 km with 75 km.

Detailed information on gap-filled data is provided.

Note: All times are provided in UTC, not local time.


For more details read `HARTHM_2023_Visibility_MetaData.txt`.

Version 1.1



corrects for an error in the file "..._Visibility_10min_UTC.csv" where in the previous version (1.0) the time axis encountered an overflow after August 15. This did not affect other files at 30 min, hourly, daily, monthly and yearly resolutions. Version 1.1 also fixes a minor column labelling issue in the yearly file "...Visibility_Yearly_UTC.csv".

displays times according to ISO 8610 to unambiguously identify that all times are given in UTC. Further, the column headers for the time periods have been changed to "From" and "To" to indicate the start and end of the aggregation periods.
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. Copyright Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Professur für Umweltmeteorologie, Werthmannstrasse 10, Freiburg, Germany.


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This work was created by the University of Freiburg, Germany.

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The site is operated as part of the Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS).

Instruments and sensors in the dataset were operated by the Chair of Environmental Meteorology, University of Freiburg, Germany.

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Hartheim Forest Research Site

DE-Har in the ICOS Carbon Portal