MOSAiC-ACA and AFLUX - Arctic airborne campaigns characterizing the exit area of MOSAiC

• Published in: Scientific Data
• Main Authors: Mech, Mario, Ehrlich, André, Herber, Andreas, Lüpkes, Christof, Wendisch, Manfred, Becker, Sebastian, Boose, Yvonne, Chechin, Dmitry, Crewell, Susanne, Dupuy, Régis, Gourbeyre, Christophe, Hartmann, Jörg, Jäkel, Evelyn, Jourdan, Olivier, Kliesch, Leif-Leonard, Klingebiel, Marcus, Kulla, Birte Solveig, Mioche, Guillaume, Moser, Manuel, Risse, Nils, Ruiz-Donoso, Elena, Schäfer, Michael, Stapf, Johannes, Voigt, Christiane
• Other Authors: Institute for Geophysics and Meteorology Köln (IGM), Universität zu Köln = University of Cologne, Leipziger Institut für Meteorologie (LIM), Leipzig University / Universität Leipzig, Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung = Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research = Institut Alfred-Wegener pour la recherche polaire et marine (AWI), Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft = Helmholtz Association, BreezoMeter, A.M.Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP), Russian Academy of Sciences Moscow (RAS), Laboratoire de Météorologie Physique (LaMP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA), Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt Oberpfaffenhofen-Wessling (DLR), Institute for Physics of the Atmosphere Mainz, Johannes Gutenberg - Universität Mainz = Johannes Gutenberg University (JGU)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: CCSD 2022
• Subjects: [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]; Arctic; Svalbard; Fram Strait; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-04117808; https://hal.science/hal-04117808v1/document; https://hal.science/hal-04117808v1/file/s41597-022-01900-7.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01900-7

International audience Two airborne field campaigns focusing on observations of Arctic mixed-phase clouds and boundary layer processes and their role with respect to Arctic amplification have been carried out in spring 2019 and late summer 2020 over the Fram Strait northwest of Svalbard. The latter campaign was closely connected to the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition. Comprehensive datasets of the cloudy Arctic atmosphere have been collected by operating remote sensing instruments, in-situ probes, instruments for the measurement of turbulent fluxes of energy and momentum, and dropsondes on board the AWI research aircraft Polar 5. In total, 24 flights with 111 flight hours have been performed over open ocean, the marginal sea ice zone, and sea ice. The datasets follow documented methods and quality assurance and are suited for studies on Arctic mixed-phase clouds and their transformation processes, for studies with a focus on Arctic boundary layer processes, and for satellite validation applications. All datasets are freely available via the world data center PANGAEA.