10-day backward trajectories from ECMWF analysis data along the ship track of the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition in austral summer 2016/2017.

Dataset abstract

This dataset contains 10-day backward trajectories along the ship track of the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition from Nov 2016 – April 2017 calculated with the Lagrangian analysis tool LAGRANTO using the 3D-wind fields from the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) operational analysis data. The trajectories were started from up to 56 vertical levels between 0 and 500 hPa a.s.l. and various variables were interpolated along the trajectories.

Dataset contents

trajs_ACE.zip: lsl_${year}${month}${day}_${hour}, trajectory files (containing all trajectories starting at ${year}${month}${day} ${hour}UTC at the ACE track from different vertical levels), comma-separated values

fig_map.zip: map_long10_${year}${month}${day}_${hour}.png, map plots of all trajectories starting at ${year}${month}${day} ${hour}UTC coloured by pressure, portable network graphics

fig_cross.zip: cross10_q_${year}${month}${day}_${hour}.png, cross-section plots of all trajectories starting at ${year}${month}${day} ${hour}UTC coloured by specific humidity, portable network graphics

data_file_header.txt, metadata for lsl-files, text

README.txt, metadata, text

Dataset license

This 10-day backward trajectory 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/