Atmospheric sounding of the boundary layer over alpine glaciers using fixed-wing UAVs

Additional code and data for the paper by Groos et al. entitled "Atmospheric sounding of the boundary layer over alpine glaciers using fixed-wing UAVs"

Correspondence: Alexander R. Groos ([e-mail])

The repository contains:(1) The raw data (log files) for each UAV-based atmospheric sounding(2) The postprocessed and reformatted data for each sounding and vertical profile(3) The commented R-Scripts for data processing, analysis and visualisation(4) A subset of the meteorological data from the nearby weather stations

Description of sub-folders:

-aws_data-- aws_fisistock.txt                # meteorological data from AWS Fisistock for the period of the campaign-- aws_gandegg.txt                # meteorological data from AWS Gandegg for the period of the campaign-- aws_sackhorn.txt                # meteorological data from AWS Sackhorn for the period of the campaign

- processed_data-- kanderfirn_2021-06-16_10:45_p1_pprz.tab    # meteorological data for first profile/descent at about  -- kanderfirn_2021-06-16_10:45_p2_fr.tab    # flight recorder data for second profile/descent at about 10:45 CEST-- kanderfirn_2021-06-16_10:45_p2_pprz.tab    # meteorological data for second profile/descent at about 10:45 CEST-- kanderfirn_2021-06-16_10:45_pprz.tab    # meteorological data for the entire sounding (first and second profile/descent) at about 10:45 CEST--        .--        .--        .-- kanderfirn_2021-06-16_16:50_p1_pprz.tab    # meteorological data for first profile/descent at about 16:50 CEST-- kanderfirn_2021-06-16_16:50_p2_fr.tab    # flight recorder data for second profile/descent at about 16:50 CEST-- kanderfirn_2021-06-16_16:50_p2_pprz.tab    # meteorological data for second profile/descent at about 16:50 CEST-- kanderfirn_2021-06-16_16:50_pprz.tab    # meteorological data for the entire sounding (first and second profile/descent) at about 16:50 CEST-- kanderfirn_soundings_2021-06-16.csv    # summary table of vertical profiles (1 m height intervals): one column for each profile/descent and variable-- kanderfirn_turbulence_2021-06-16.csv    # summary table of vertical turbulence profiles (1 m height intervals): one column for each profile/descent

- raw_data-- fr_kanderfirn_2021-06-16_10:45.LOG        # flight recorder data from the sounding at about 10:45 CEST (binary file)--        .--        .--        .-- fr_kanderfirn_2021-06-16_16:50.LOG        # flight recorder data from the sounding at about 16:50 CEST (binary file)-- pprz_kanderfirn_2021-06-16_10:45.LOG    # meteorological data from the sounding at about 10:45 CEST (human readable text file)--        .--        .--        .-- pprz_kanderfirn_2021-06-16_16:50.LOG    # meteorological data data from the sounding at about 16:50 CEST (human readable text file)

- R_scripts-- figures.R                      # Script to create Figures 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12-- lapse_rate.R                  # Script to calculate lapse rates and surface-based inversions (includes code for Figures 7 and B1)-- postprocessing.R                  # Script to reformat preprocessed and preselected pprz-files-- turbulence.R                # Script for the calculation of the turbulence proxy from the recorded roll rate