Radiosonde temperature and humidity profiles taken at Summit Station, Greenland, 2023 ...

• Main Author: Shupe, Matthew
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: NSF Arctic Data Center 2024
• Subjects: ICECAPS; Greenland Ice Sheet; Greenland; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.18739/a2jw86p7z; https://arcticdata.io/catalog/view/doi:10.18739/A2JW86P7Z

This data set contains profiles of temperature and humidity observed by Vaisala radiosondes that are launched nominally twice daily at Summit Station, Greenland as part of the Integrated Characterization of Energy, Clouds, Atmospheric state, and Precipitation at Summit (ICECAPS) Project and its follow-on projects ICECAPS-ACE and ICECAPS-MELT. These radiosonde measurements did not initially contain wind tracking information, but transitioned towards including wind tracking in one sonde per data starting in 7/2011, then moving to twice-daily wind sondes in 6/2014. Starting around 2020 the radiosonde program has periodically dropped to one sounding per day, with some periods of no soundings per day, based on funding limitations. The data are processed using the standard Vaisala processing software. Detailed information on these parameters and other aspects of the dataset are included in the netCDF header information for each file. ...