Tethered balloon-borne measurements of meteorological parameters during flight PS122/4_48-132 on 2020-07-22

• Main Authors: Pilz, Christian, Siebert, Holger, Lonardi, Michael
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2022
• Subjects: ABL; AC3; Arctic; Arctic Amplification; Arctic Ocean; BELUGA; DATE/TIME; HEIGHT above ground; Humidity; relative; meteorological measurement; Meteorological probe; MOSAiC; MOSAiC_ATMOS; MOSAiC20192020; Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate; Polarstern; Pressure; at given altitude; PS122/4; PS122/4_48-132; Temperature; air; Tethered balloon; Tethered balloon system BELUGA; Wind direction; Wind speed; Beluga; Beluga*; Fram Strait
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.952383; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.952383

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.