Atmospheric profiling data collected from radiosondes in the Southern Ocean in the austral summer of 2016/2017 during the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition.

• Main Authors: Gorodetskaya, Irina V., Thurnherr, Iris, Tsukernik, Maria, Graf, Pascal, Aemisegger, Franziska, Wernli, Heini, Ralph, F. Martin
• Other Authors: Gorodetskaya, Irina
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: radiosonde; iMet; vertical atmospheric profiles; temperature; wind; humidity; pressure; Southern Ocean; Atlantic Ocean; Antarctica; Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition; ACE; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Austral; Scripps; Gorodetskaya; Antarc*; Swiss Polar Institute
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/4382460; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4382460

Dataset abstract The data set consists of the vertical profiles of the atmospheric variables measured using radiosondes (i-Met) during the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition from November 2016 to April 2017. The data include the raw variables measured directly by the radiosondes and derived parameters: altitude (km), air pressure (mb), air temperature (ºC), relative humidity (%), frostpoint (ºC), potential temperature (ºK), water vapour mixing ratio (ppmv), total column water (mm w.e.), wind speed (m/s) and wind direction (deg). Dataset contents aceNNN_yyyymmdd, directory aceNNN_yyyymmdd.csv, data file, comma-separated values aceNNN_yyyymmdd.kml, metadata, XML aceNNN_yyyymmdd.raw, data file, raw, ASCII DOS aceNNN_yyyymmdd.raw_config, metadata, XML aceNNN.de1, metadata, ASCII text format aceNNNflt.dat, data file, ASCII text format aceNNNpre.dat, data file, ASCII text format plots, directory Sounding_ACENNN.png, metadata, portable network graphics data_file_header_csv.txt, metadata, text format data_file_header_dat.txt, metadata, text format data_file_header_launches.txt, metadata, text format README.txt, metadata, text format overview_radiosonde_launches.csv, metadata, comma-separated value where NNN is the launch number yyyy is the year, mm is the month and dd is the day. Dates are in UTC. json files make up a Frictionless Data package. Dataset citation Please cite this dataset as: Gorodetskaya, I.V., Thurnherr, I., Tsukernik, M., Graf, P., Aemisegger, F., Wernli, H. and Ralph, F.M. (2021). Atmospheric profiling data collected from radiosondes in the Southern Ocean in the austral summer of 2016/2017 during the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition. (Version 1.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4382460 The Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition was made possible by funding from the Swiss Polar Institute and Ferring Pharmaceuticals. The radiosonde programme was possible thanks a collaboration between Irina Gorodetskaya (CESAM, ACE project 18), Marty Ralph (Scripps Institute of Oceanography, ...