High resolution aircraft measurements on three days over Wijdefjorden, Svalbard during the STABLE campaign in March 2013 ...

• Main Authors: Michaelis, Janosch, Hartmann, Jörg, Schmitt, Amelie U, Birnbaum, Gerit, Vihma, Timo, Lüpkes, Christof
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2023
• Subjects: airborne measurements; atmospheric boundary layer; convection; fjords; orographic effects; Polynya; Sea ice; topography; turbulence; Arctic Amplification AC3; Priority Programme 1158 Antarctic Research with Comparable Investigations in Arctic Sea Ice Areas SPP1158; Antarctic; Arctic; Longyearbyen; Svalbard; Wijdefjorden; Antarc*; Wijdefjord*; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.961263; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.961263

The data set consists of high resolution airborne measurements that were obtained mainly over Svalbard and near the sea ice edge north of Svalbard on three days in March 2013 during the campaign "SpringTime Atmospheric Boundary Layer Experiment (STABLE). STABLE was led by the Alfred Wegener Institue (AWI) and by the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI). The measurements were performed using the POLAR 5 research aircraft, where all research flights of 5-6 hours duration started and ended at Longyearbyen airport. During STABLE, observations focused on the vertical structure of the lower troposphere as well as boundary layer modifications, e.g. during marine cold-air outbreaks and by convection over leads in sea ice. The data set presented here predominantly consists of measurements that were obtained over the Wijdefjorden, which is a North-South oriented fjord with a length of more than 100km in the northern part of Spitsbergen. The measurements were carried out to study the boundary layer structure in the ... : A detailed list of all flight legs can be found starting from page 4 of the data set description. The flight legs belonging to the saw-tooth flight patterns flown over Wijdefjorden are as follows:17 March 2013: SP50317t08 – SP50317t24 (15:13 – 16:02 UTC, 32 – 915m above sea level)19 March 2013: SP50319t01 – SP50319t17 (14:25 – 15:10 UTC, 28 – 913m above sea level)25 March 2013: SP50325t23 – SP50325t34 (15:15 – 15:53 UTC, 25 – 972m above sea level) ...