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

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