3D wind speed and CO2/H20 concentration measurements collected during austral summer 2017/2018 over an ice free surface of a shallow lake located in the Schirmacher oasis, East Antarctica.

• Main Author: Shevnina, Elena
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Zenodo 2019
• Subjects: Shallow lake, eddy-covariance method, the Schirmacher oasis, East Antarctica; Antarctic; Austral; East Antarctica; Priyadarshini; Rae; Zub; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3469570; https://zenodo.org/record/3469570

The data set includes measurements collected by the integrated CO2 and H2O open-path gas analyzer and 3-D sonic anemometer (Irgason by Campbell Scientific with serial number 1243, https://www.campbellsci.com/irgason). The instrument was operated from 01.01.2018 to 07.02.2018. It was deployed on the north-west shore of the Lake Zub/Priyadarshini (S70° 45′ 41.5″, E011° 44′ 16.6″) on the distance of 10 m from the coast. The instrument was placed on the aluminum tripod on the height of 2 m, and directed to south-eastwards (137 SE). Six metal guidelines were linked to anchors, and the boom was fixed on the tripod. Two rechargeable batteries (12V/33Ah) were used in additional to two solar panels to power supply of the instrument (irgason_deployment.jpg). The format of the output files is given in Irgason_output.pdf. The raw data are packed into the *.dat files (one per day) and then compressed (bz2). The calibration of the Irgason was done 21.08.2017 in the lab of the Finnish Meteorological Institute with standard zero-and-span procedure, and then the instrument is adjusted accordingly. : The work has got financial support from the Academy of Finland (contract number 304345) and the logistic support of the Finnish Antarctic Expedition and the Russian Antarctic Expedition. Our special thanks to Anatoly Puchkin, Alexander Krasikov and Alexander Kurilo from 62 RAE wintering crew.