TY - JOUR
T1 - Ship- And island-based atmospheric soundings from the 2020 EUREC4A field campaign
AU - Christine Stephan, Claudia
AU - Schnitt, Sabrina
AU - Schulz, Hauke
AU - Bellenger, Hugo
AU - De Szoeke, Simon P.
AU - Acquistapace, Claudia
AU - Baier, Katharina
AU - Dauhut, Thibaut
AU - Laxenaire, Rémi
AU - Morfa-Avalos, Yanmichel
AU - Person, Renaud
AU - Meléndez, Estefanía Quiñones
AU - Bagheri, Gholamhossein
AU - Böck, Tobias
AU - Daley, Alton
AU - Güttler, Johannes
AU - Helfer, Kevin C.
AU - Los, Sebastian A.
AU - Neuberger, Almuth
AU - Röttenbacher, Johannes
AU - Raeke, Andreas
AU - Ringel, Maximilian
AU - Ritschel, Markus
AU - Sadoulet, Pauline
AU - Schirmacher, Imke
AU - Katharina Stolla, M.
AU - Wright, Ethan
AU - Charpentier, Benjamin
AU - Doerenbecher, Alexis
AU - Wilson, Richard
AU - Jansen, Friedhelm
AU - Kinne, Stefan
AU - Reverdin, Gilles
AU - Speich, Sabrina
AU - Bony, Sandrine
AU - Stevens, Bjorn
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021/2/18
Y1 - 2021/2/18
N2 - To advance the understanding of the interplay among clouds, convection, and circulation, and its role in climate change, the Elucidating the role of clouds-circulation coupling in climate campaign (EUREC4A) and Atlantic Tradewind Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Interaction Campaign (ATOMIC) collected measurements in the western tropical Atlantic during January and February 2020. Upper-air radiosondes were launched regularly (usually 4-hourly) from a network consisting of the Barbados Cloud Observatory (BCO) and four ships within 6-16°N, 51-60°W. From 8 January to 19 February, a total of 811 radiosondes measured wind, temperature, and relative humidity. In addition to the ascent, the descent was recorded for 82 % of the soundings. The soundings sampled changes in atmospheric pressure, winds, lifting condensation level, boundary layer depth, and vertical distribution of moisture associated with different ocean surface conditions, synoptic variability, and mesoscale convective organization. Raw (Level 0), quality-controlled 1 s (Level 1), and vertically gridded (Level 2) data in NetCDF (Stephan et al., 2020) are available to the public at AERIS (https://doi.org/10.25326/137 https://doi.org/10.25326/137). The methods of data collection and post-processing for the radiosonde data set are described here.
AB - To advance the understanding of the interplay among clouds, convection, and circulation, and its role in climate change, the Elucidating the role of clouds-circulation coupling in climate campaign (EUREC4A) and Atlantic Tradewind Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Interaction Campaign (ATOMIC) collected measurements in the western tropical Atlantic during January and February 2020. Upper-air radiosondes were launched regularly (usually 4-hourly) from a network consisting of the Barbados Cloud Observatory (BCO) and four ships within 6-16°N, 51-60°W. From 8 January to 19 February, a total of 811 radiosondes measured wind, temperature, and relative humidity. In addition to the ascent, the descent was recorded for 82 % of the soundings. The soundings sampled changes in atmospheric pressure, winds, lifting condensation level, boundary layer depth, and vertical distribution of moisture associated with different ocean surface conditions, synoptic variability, and mesoscale convective organization. Raw (Level 0), quality-controlled 1 s (Level 1), and vertically gridded (Level 2) data in NetCDF (Stephan et al., 2020) are available to the public at AERIS (https://doi.org/10.25326/137 https://doi.org/10.25326/137). The methods of data collection and post-processing for the radiosonde data set are described here.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85101568068
U2 - 10.5194/essd-13-491-2021
DO - 10.5194/essd-13-491-2021
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85101568068
SN - 1866-3508
VL - 13
SP - 491
EP - 514
JO - Earth System Science Data
JF - Earth System Science Data
IS - 2
ER -
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