Raw stable water isotope measurements in water vapour at 8 m a.s.l. on the starboard side of the ship, made in the austral summer of 2016/2017 during the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition (ACE).

Dataset abstract

This dataset includes the raw data of stable water vapour isotope (δ18O, δ2H, deuterium excess) and water vapour mixing ratio measurements at a height of approximately 8 meters above sea level taken in the Southern Ocean during the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition (ACE) from November 2016 to April 2017 using a Picarro laser spectrometer L2130-i mounted on the starboard side of the ship. L2130-i was operated only during two months in February and March 2017 from Hobart (Australia) to Cape Town (South Africa). This data has to be calibrated using the calibration runs and applying an appropriate calibration procedure following the IAEA guide lines.

Two similar datasets also measuring stable water isotopes (SWIs) in water vapour were collected during the same expedition and can be distinguished from this dataset due to the height of the measurement collection (at 8 m a.s.l and 13.5 m a.s.l). The three ACE datasets of SWIs in water vapour are described and compared in Thurnherr et al. (2020).

Dataset contents

leg*/HIDS2018-yyyymmdd-hhmmssZ-DataLog_User.dat, data file, comma-separated values

data_file_header.txt, metadata, text format

README.txt, metadata, text format

Dataset license

This raw stable water isotope measurements dataset is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0) whose full description can be found at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0