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

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/