Meteorological parameters measured during the FAIRARI campaign, Po Valley, Italy, February – April 2022
Marco Paglione, Stefano Decesari, Almuth Neuberger, Rahul Ranjan, Ilona Riipinen, Paul Zieger
The dataset provides measured meteorological parameters such as wind components, temperature, relative humidity, and visibility from the Fog and Aerosol InteRAction Research Italy (FAIRARI) campaign 2021/2022 that took place from 8 February to 4 April 2022 at San Pietro Capofiume, northern Italy. These standard meteorological parameters are important to interpret various recorded atmospheric observations such as fog, aerosol composition, and air quality parameters and are used for atmospheric modeling activities.
AtmosphereMicrometeorologyAtmosphereMeteorologyTemperatureVisibilityFogItalyFAIRARIwind
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Neuberger A, Decesari S, Aktypis A, Andersen H, Baumgardner D, Bianchi F, Busetto M, Cai J, Cermak J, Dipu S, Ekman A, Fuzzi S, Gramlich Y, Haslett SL, Heikkinen L, Joutsensaari J, Kaltsonoudis C, Kangasluoma J, Krejci R, Lupi A, Marinoni A, Matrali A, Mattsson F, Mohr C, Nenes A, Paglione M, Pandis SN, Patel A, Riipinen I, Rinaldi M, Steimer SS, Stolzenburg D, Sulo J, Vasilakopoulou CN, Zieger P (2025) From molecules to droplets: The Fog and Aerosol InteRAction Research Italy (FAIRARI) 2021/22 campaign. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. https://doi.org/10.1175/bams-d-23-0166.1
Data description
fairari-2021-2022-meteorological-1.csv
Comma-separated values file with the following content at a 1-min time resolution:
datetimeDate and time given in 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS' (in UTC)WD_min[Deg]Windirection minimum (in degree)WD_ave[Deg]Windirection average (in degree)WD_max[Deg]Windirection maxmim (in degree)WS_min[m/s]Wind speed minumum (in m/s)WS_ave[m/s]Wind speed average (in m/s)WS_max[m/s]Wind speed maximum (in m/s)T_air[C]Air temperature (in degree Celsius)RH[%]Relative humidity (in %)P_air[hPa]Air pressure (in hPa)visibilityVisibility (in m)
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Measurement system
Wind components, air pressure, relative humidity, and temperature
The wind speed, wind direction, air pressure, and temperature were measured with a Weather transmitter WXT536, Vaisala, Finland, located 3.5 m above ground.
Visibility
The visibility was recorded using a visibility sensor (Visibility sensor 6400, Belfort Instrument, United States) mounted on SU’s aerosol–fog measurement container at around 3.35 m above ground.
FAIRARI campaign
The data was recorded from 8 February to 4 April 2022 at the San Pietro Capofiume measurement site, Italy, as part of the FAIRARI 2021/22 campaign (see Neuberger at al. 2025).
San Pietro Capofiume is located 30 km north-east of the city of Bologna, Italy, in a rural area.
Coordinates: 44.65° N, 11.62° E.
Please consult and cite Neuberger et al.(2025) when using the data.
Associated data sets
The current data set is part of a collection of data sets from The fog and aerosol interaction research Italy (FAIRARI) campaign, November 2021 to May 2022.
Project
European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (project FORCeS under grant agreement No 821205); European Research Council (Consolidator grant INTEGRATE No 865799); Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (grant numbers 2021.0169 and 2021.0298).
Publisher
Bolin Centre Database
License
Open Data Commons Attribution License (ODC-By) v1.0
First name
Paul
Last name or organisation
Zieger
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Department of Environmental Science; Stockholm University
Postal code
SE-106 91
City
Stockholm
Province or state
Stockholm
Country
Sweden
GCMD science keyword
Earth science
GCMD location
Continent > Europe > Southern Europe > Italy
Begin date
2022-02-08
End date
2022-04-04