NYSM Icing Detector Data

These instruments were deployed at New York State Mesonet (NYSM) stations in northeastern New York, USA in support of the WINTRE-MIX field campaign. The instrument is used to detect the presence/absence of icing conditions.

When icing is present, two different post-processing approaches are used to derive a quantitative estimate of the cumulative thickness of ice accreted. The ice detector measurements are collocated with (or adjacent to) NYSM “standard” stations, which measure a host of other meteorological variables (Brotzge et al. 2020; nysmesonet.org/). Two-meter temperature data from these NYSM stations is used when post-processing the icing detector data.