Tethered balloon-borne measurements of meteorological parameters during MOSAiC leg 4 in June and July 2020

• Main Authors: Pilz, Christian, Siebert, Holger, Lonardi, Michael
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2022
• Subjects: ABL; AC3; Arctic; Arctic Amplification; Arctic Ocean; BELUGA; meteorological measurement; MOSAiC; MOSAiC_ATMOS; MOSAiC20192020; Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate; Polarstern; PS122/4; PS122/4_45-141; PS122/4_45-156; PS122/4_46-182; PS122/4_47-100; PS122/4_47-165; PS122/4_47-167; PS122/4_47-168; PS122/4_47-169; PS122/4_47-170; PS122/4_47-171; PS122/4_47-98; PS122/4_47-99; PS122/4_48-126; PS122/4_48-127; PS122/4_48-128; PS122/4_48-129; PS122/4_48-130; PS122/4_48-131; PS122/4_48-132; PS122/4_48-133; PS122/4_48-134; PS122/4_48-135; PS122/4_48-137; PS122/4_48-138; PS122/4_48-139; PS122/4_48-140; PS122/4_48-141; PS122/4_48-216; PS122/4_48-217; PS122/4_48-218; PS122/4_49-98; Tethered balloon; Tethered balloon system BELUGA; Beluga; Beluga*; Fram Strait
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.952341; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.952341

In the framework of the Multidisciplinary Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition, the tethered balloon system BELUGA (Balloon-bornE moduLar Utility for profilinG the lower Atmosphere) was deployed from a research camp on an ice floe drifting in the Fram Strait in Summer 2020. The BELUGA system consists of a 90 m³ helium-filled balloon with modular instrumentation. The present data set covers the meteorological measurements with an extended radiosonde package on 31 flights with mean altitudes of 1 km between 29 June and 27 July 2020. Lonardi et al. 2022 give an overview of the BELUGA observations during MOSAiC leg 4. A data descriptor by Pilz et al. (in preparation) describe the sensor package and the BELUGA operations in detail.