Citation:

PANGAEA.919223

Name: Aircraft measurements of the katabatic boundary layer structure over Greenland, flight KABEG_0502_P2
Creator: Günther Heinemann
Published: 2020-06-19
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: aircraft; Greenland; katabatic wind

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Keyword(s):

aircraft; Greenland; katabatic wind

Related to:

Heinemann, Günther (2020): Assessment of Regional Climate Model Simulations of the Katabatic Boundary Layer Structure over Greenland. Atmosphere, 11(6), 571, https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos11060571

Project(s):

Arctic Climate System Study (ACSYS)

CATS - The Changing Arctic Transpolar System (CATS)

Funding:

Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), grant/award no. 03F0776D : Das arktische transpolare System im Wandel; Vorhaben: Veränderungen der Atmosphäre-Meereis-Ozean Interaktionen und deren Einfluß auf das transpolare System (TP 2)

Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), grant/award no. 03F0831C : Vorhaben: Atmosphäre-Land-Meereis-Ozean Wechselwirkung

Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), grant/award no. 03PL020F: Arctic Climate System Study

Coverage:

Latitude: 67.485000 * Longitude: -47.800000

Date/Time Start: 1997-05-02T09:40:00 * Date/Time End: 1997-05-02T09:40:00

Minimum HEIGHT above ground: 25 m * Maximum HEIGHT above ground: 330 m

Event(s):

KABEG_0502_P2 * Latitude: 67.485000 * Longitude: -47.800000 * Date/Time: 1997-05-02T09:40:00 * Campaign: (Katabatic wind and boundary-layer front experiment around Greenland) * Basis: POLAR 2 * Method/Device: Aircraft (AC) * Comment: A4

Parameter(s):

#	Name	Short Name	Unit	Principal Investigator	Method/Device	Comment
1	HEIGHT above ground	Height	m	Heinemann, Günther	Radar altimeter	Geocode
2	Temperature, air, potential	THETA	°C	Heinemann, Günther	Temperature sensor PT100 open wire
3	Humidity, specific	Humidity spec	g/kg	Heinemann, Günther	Lyman-α (AIR), Humicap, PT100 in Rosemount housing (Aerodata), and Dew point mirror (Gen. Eastern)
4	Wind velocity, west-east	U	m/s	Heinemann, Günther	5-hole-probe (Rosemount)
5	Wind velocity, south-north	V	m/s	Heinemann, Günther	5-hole-probe (Rosemount)
6	Wind speed	ff	m/s	Heinemann, Günther	5-hole-probe (Rosemount)
7	Wind direction	dd	deg	Heinemann, Günther	5-hole-probe (Rosemount)	from averaged wind components
8	Number of values averaged	N avg	#	Heinemann, Günther		in vertical bin
9	Temperature, air, potential, standard deviation	THETA std dev	±	Heinemann, Günther	Temperature sensor PT100 open wire
10	Humidity, specific, standard deviation	Humidity spec std dev	±	Heinemann, Günther	Lyman-α (AIR), Humicap, PT100 in Rosemount housing (Aerodata), and Dew point mirror (Gen. Eastern)
11	Wind speed, standard deviation	ff std	±	Heinemann, Günther	5-hole-probe (Rosemount)
12	Wind direction	dd	deg	Heinemann, Günther	5-hole-probe (Rosemount)	in ° from averaged wind directions
13	Wind direction, standard deviation	dd std dev	±	Heinemann, Günther	5-hole-probe (Rosemount)

License:

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0)

Size:

278 data points

Data

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1 Height [m] (Radar altimeter)	2 THETA [°C] (Temperature sensor PT100 open...)	3 Humidity spec [g/kg] (Lyman-α (AIR), Humicap, PT100...)	4 U [m/s] (5-hole-probe (Rosemount))	5 V [m/s] (5-hole-probe (Rosemount))	6 ff [m/s] (5-hole-probe (Rosemount))	7 dd [deg] (from averaged wind components...)	8 N avg [#] (in vertical bin)	9 THETA std dev [±] (Temperature sensor PT100 open...)	10 Humidity spec std dev [±] (Lyman-α (AIR), Humicap, PT100...)	11 ff std [±] (5-hole-probe (Rosemount))	12 dd [deg] (in ° from averaged wind direc...)	13 dd std dev [±] (5-hole-probe (Rosemount))
25	-3.28	0.414	-7.200	10.08	12.36	144.5	5	0.04	0.002	0.09	144.4	0.2
35	-3.13	0.418	-7.350	10.12	12.47	144.0	6	0.14	0.011	0.58	143.9	3.3
45	-2.81	0.423	-7.643	10.80	13.24	144.7	7	0.18	0.012	0.43	144.7	3.8
55	-2.34	0.425	-7.514	11.41	13.70	146.6	7	0.27	0.005	0.77	146.6	4.6
65	-1.69	0.439	-7.000	12.57	14.41	150.9	7	0.55	0.014	0.78	150.7	3.4
75	-0.80	0.454	-6.560	13.44	15.04	154.0	5	0.55	0.029	0.62	154.0	3.3
85	-0.04	0.482	-5.814	14.21	15.47	157.8	7	0.61	0.038	0.48	157.7	3.6
95	0.36	0.494	-5.380	14.64	15.74	159.8	5	0.49	0.056	0.34	159.8	4.4
105	1.28	0.555	-4.350	14.78	15.52	163.6	6	0.76	0.088	0.74	163.7	4.8
115	1.70	0.573	-3.800	14.93	15.58	165.7	6	0.70	0.116	1.25	165.9	5.4
125	2.53	0.656	-2.500	14.58	14.92	170.3	6	0.64	0.125	1.56	170.5	4.8
135	3.07	0.701	-1.700	14.53	14.72	173.3	6	0.60	0.130	1.45	173.6	5.0
145	3.57	0.737	-1.137	14.28	14.40	175.4	8	0.50	0.120	1.36	175.7	4.2
155	4.05	0.798	-0.267	13.88	13.93	178.9	6	0.48	0.113	1.28	179.2	4.1
165	4.50	0.817	0.017	13.60	13.62	180.1	6	0.37	0.103	1.30	180.3	3.5
175	4.80	0.898	0.717	12.88	12.90	183.2	6	0.37	0.089	1.14	183.4	2.7
185	5.16	0.941	1.014	12.34	12.40	184.7	7	0.33	0.081	1.15	184.7	1.9
195	5.47	0.976	1.450	11.68	11.73	187.1	6	0.30	0.044	0.96	187.1	1.7
210	5.88	0.991	1.633	10.97	11.04	188.5	12	0.29	0.024	0.83	188.6	1.3
230	6.30	0.994	1.714	10.00	10.14	189.7	14	0.27	0.037	0.64	189.7	1.5
250	6.62	0.970	1.550	9.42	9.54	189.3	16	0.18	0.031	0.36	189.4	2.6
270	6.94	0.919	0.400	9.51	9.53	182.4	7	0.15	0.029	0.05	182.3	1.2
290	7.20	0.875	0.025	9.50	9.50	180.2	4	0.00	0.002	0.00	180.2	0.2
310							0
330							0