Video In Situ Snowfall Sensor (VISSS) data from MOSAiC expedition with POLARSTERN on 2020-03-08 ...

• Main Authors: Maahn, Maximilian, Cox, Christopher J, Gallagher, Michael R, Hutchings, Jennifer K, Shupe, Matthew D, Uttal, Taneil
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2023
• Subjects: In situ; particle shape; Particle size distribution; snowfall; Event label; DATE/TIME; LATITUDE; LONGITUDE; Identification; Video; Image, sky; Text file; Snow fall sensor; Video In Situ Snowfall Sensor, University of Cologne; PS122/3; Polarstern; Arctic Amplification AC3; Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate MOSAiC; Arctic; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.960553; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.960553

The VISSS is a camera system that records precipitating snow from two perspectives. Here, movies and images of falling precipitation particles are provided for MOSAiC. For more details on the VISSS sensor, see Maahn et al. (2023). The instrument was located at Met City until April 26 2020, but was moved to the P deck of Polarstern on April 30 2020 due to deteriorating sea ice conditions. ...