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Herber, Andreas (2022): Aircraft measurements of aerosol optical depth in the Arctic during the AFLUX campaign 2019 [dataset publication series]. Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.946923

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Abstract:
The presented spectral aerosol optical depth (AOD) data are measured with an active tracking Sun photometer SPTA. The system was installed under a quartz dome of Polar 5 to derive this mentioned AOD. It operates a filter wheel with ten selected wavelengths in the spectral range from 367 to 1024 nm. To measure the direct solar irradiance, the optics of the SPTA use an aperture with a field of view of 1°. With knowledge of the extraterrestrial signal, the spectral optical depth of the atmosphere as well as spectral optical depth of aerosol was derived. The extraterrestrial signal was calculated based on a Langley calibration, which are performed regularly in a high mountain area (Izana, Tenerife). The data were screened for contamination by clouds to minimize an artificial enhancement of the AOD. The cloud screening algorithm applied a threshold of measured irradiance and made use of the higher temporal and spatial variability of clouds compared to the rather smooth changes of aerosols properties.
Keyword(s):
aerosol optical depth; airborne photometer; Arctic
Related to:
Herber, Andreas; Thomason, Larry W; Gernandt, Hartwig; Leiterer, Ulrich; Nagel, Dagmar; Schulz, Karl-Heinz; Kaptur, Jasmine; Albrecht, Torsten; Notholt, Justus (2002): Continuous day and night aerosol optical depth observations in the Arctic between 1991 and 1999. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 107(D10), AAC 6-1-AAC 6-13, https://doi.org/10.1029/2001JD000536
Mech, Mario; Lüpkes, Christof; Ehrlich, André; Wendisch, Manfred; Crewell, Susanne; Becker, Sebastian; Boose, Yvonne; Chechin, Dmitry; Dupuy, Regis; Gourbeyre, Christophe; Jäkel, Evelyn; Jourdan, Olivier; Kliesch, Leif-Leonard; Klingebiel, Marcus; Krobot, Pavel; Kulla, Birte Solveig; Risse, Nils; Ruiz-Donoso, Elena; Mioche, Guillaume; Moser, Manuel; Schäfer, Michael; Stapf, Johannes; Voigt, Christiane (2021): Collection of data sets for the Airborne measurements of radiative and turbulent FLUXes of energy and momentum in the Arctic boundary layer (AFLUX) campaign, carried out in spring 2019 northwest of Svalbard. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.932294
Stone, Robert S; Herber, Andreas; Vitale, Vito; Mazzola, Mauro; Lupi, Angelo; Schnell, R C; Dutton, Ellsworth G; Liu, P S K; Li, Shao-Meng; Dethloff, Klaus; Lampert, Astrid; Ritter, Christoph; Stock, M; Neuber, Roland; Maturilli, Marion (2010): A three-dimensional characterization of Arctic aerosols from airborne Sun photometer observations: PAM-ARCMIP, April 2009. Journal of Geophysical Research, 115(D13), D13203, https://doi.org/10.1029/2009JD013605
Project(s):
Arctic Amplification (AC3)
Funding:
German Research Foundation (DFG), grant/award no. 268020496: TRR 172: ArctiC Amplification: Climate Relevant Atmospheric and SurfaCe Processes, and Feedback Mechanisms
Coverage:
Median Latitude: 79.598703 * Median Longitude: 10.472583 * South-bound Latitude: 77.517000 * West-bound Longitude: 1.000000 * North-bound Latitude: 81.950000 * East-bound Longitude: 18.751000
Date/Time Start: 2019-03-21T09:47:33 * Date/Time End: 2019-04-11T15:09:20
License:
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0)
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Datasets listed in this publication series

  1. Herber, A (2022): Aircraft measurements of aerosol optical depth in the Arctic during flight P5_216_AFLUX_2019_1903210301. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.946922
  2. Herber, A (2022): Aircraft measurements of aerosol optical depth in the Arctic during flight P5_216_AFLUX_2019_1903230401. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.947002
  3. Herber, A (2022): Aircraft measurements of aerosol optical depth in the Arctic during flight P5_216_AFLUX_2019_1903240501. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.947003
  4. Herber, A (2022): Aircraft measurements of aerosol optical depth in the Arctic during flight P5_216_AFLUX_2019_1903250602. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.947004
  5. Herber, A (2022): Aircraft measurements of aerosol optical depth in the Arctic during flight P5_216_AFLUX_2019_1903300701. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.947005
  6. Herber, A (2022): Aircraft measurements of aerosol optical depth in the Arctic during flight P5_216_AFLUX_2019_1903310801. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.947007
  7. Herber, A (2022): Aircraft measurements of aerosol optical depth in the Arctic during flight P5_216_AFLUX_2019_1904031002. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.947009
  8. Herber, A (2022): Aircraft measurements of aerosol optical depth in the Arctic during flight P5_216_AFLUX_2019_1904061202. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.947010
  9. Herber, A (2022): Aircraft measurements of aerosol optical depth in the Arctic during flight P5_216_AFLUX_2019_1904071301. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.947012
  10. Herber, A (2022): Aircraft measurements of aerosol optical depth in the Arctic during flight P5_216_AFLUX_2019_1904081401. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.947014
  11. Herber, A (2022): Aircraft measurements of aerosol optical depth in the Arctic during flight P5_216_AFLUX_2019_1904111501. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.947016