Number concentration and fluorescent class fraction of fluorescent and hyper-fluorescent aerosol particles measured during the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition

• Main Authors: Moallemi, Alireza, Schmale, Julia, Schnaiter, Martin, Gysel-Beer, Martin, Modini, Robin, Landwehr, Sebastian
• Other Authors: Baccarini, Andrea, Thomas, Jen
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: WIBS; wideband integrated by aerosol sensor; fluorescent aerosol particles; number concentration; coarse mode aerosol particles; Southern Ocean; Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition; ACE; Antarctic; Austral; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Swiss Polar Institute
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5109382; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5109382

Dataset abstract This dataset consists of a 5-minute time series of number concentrations of fluorescent and total aerosol particles that were measured by wideband integrated by aerosol sensor during the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition in the austral summer of 2016/2017. Furthermore, the dataset includes the fraction of fluorescent classes of aerosol particles, according to the ABC classification of Perring et al. (2015). The dataset provides information on fluorescent and hyper-fluorescent aerosols which were obtained by considering low and high fluorescence thresholds. For this dataset, aerosol particles that have optical diameter greater than 1 μm are considered. Since the ship’s exhaust could considerably affect the fluorescence properties of aerosol particles, in this dataset we removed the periods where it is likely that the samples were contaminated by the ship's exhaust. Dataset contents N_fluorescent.csv, data file, comma-separated values N_hyper_fluorescent.csv, data file, comma-separated values data_file_header.txt, metadata, text README.txt, metadata, text Dataset license This number concentration and fluorescent class fraction of fluorescent and hyper-fluorescent aerosol particles dataset from ACE is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0) whose full text can be found at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ The Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition was made possible by funding from the Swiss Polar Institute and Ferring Pharmaceuticals. We received funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation (project No. 169090).