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Harm-Altstädter, Barbara; Bärfuss, Konrad; Bretschneider, Lutz; Käthner, Ralf; Pätzold, Falk; Peuker, Alexander; Wehner, Birgit; Lampert, Astrid (2022): Arctic aerosol and atmospheric observations with the unmanned research aircraft ALADINA in Ny-Ålesund, Spitsbergen, April/May 2018 [dataset publication series]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.947132

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Abstract:
Aerosol particles are considered to be one of the main contributors in affecting the feedback mechanisms of the Arctic Amplification. However, to which extent is far away from quantification and this is partly related to a sparse knowledge of the spatial distribution of aerosols, in particular of the vertical distribution in the atmospheric boundary layer. The data set provides measurements of aerosol particle number concentration (for different size classes, above 3 nm, above 12 nm, and in the ranges of 300-500 nm, 500-700 nm and ~700-900 nm) as well as the meteorological parameters of air temperature, air pressure and humidity based on the unmanned research aircraft ALADINA (Application of Light-weight Aircraft for Detecting IN-situ Aerosol) that was used for a field application in Ny-Ålesund, Spitsbergen. Between 24 April and 25 May 2018, 49 measurement flights were performed that consist of vertical profiles (in sum 230) with a total maximum altitude of 850 m above mean sea level (AMSL) above land and horizontal legs (around 300) that were operated at different heights crossing the coast, as well as above open water in order to study a potential impact of different surface properties on the aerosol distribution. Information to studies/references: Preliminary results of the data contributed to the studies of Lampert et al. (2020), Petäjä et al. (2020) and Xavier et al. (2022) and will be presented in an overview study soon.
Keyword(s):
Aerosol particle concentration; Aerosol size distribution; Arctic; atmospheric boundary layer; Drone; meteorological parameters; new particle formation; UAS; UAV
Related to:
Schön, Martin; zum Berge, Kjell; Platis, Andreas; Bange, Jens (2022): UAS-based measurement of wind vector, temperature and humidity in Ny-Alesund, Svalbard, during April and May 2018. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.946961
Further details:
Lampert, Astrid; Altstädter, Barbara; Bärfuss, Konrad; Bretschneider, Lutz; Sandgaard, Jesper; Michaelis, Janosch; Lobitz, Lennart; Asmussen, Magnus Ole; Damm, Ellen; Käthner, Ralf; Krüger, Thomas; Lüpkes, Christof; Nowak, Stefan; Peuker, Alexander; Rausch, Thomas; Reiser, Fabian; Scholtz, Andreas; Zakharov, Denis Sotomayor; Gaus, Dominik; Bansmer, Stephan; Wehner, Birgit; Pätzold, Falk (2020): Unmanned Aerial Systems for Investigating the Polar Atmospheric Boundary Layer—Technical Challenges and Examples of Applications. Atmosphere, 11(4), 416, https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos11040416
Petäjä, Tuukka; Duplissy, Ella-Maria; Tabakova, Ksenia; Schmale, Julia; Altstädter, Barbara; Ancellet, Gerard; Arshinov, Mikhail; Balin, Yurii; Baltensperger, Urs; Bange, Jens; Beamish, Alison Leslie; Belan, Boris; Berchet, Antoine; Bossi, Rossana; Cairns, Warren R L; Ebinghaus, Ralf; El Haddad, Imad; Ferreira-Araujo, Beatriz; Franck, Anna; Huang, Lin; Hyvärinen, Antti; Humbert, Angelika; Kalogridis, Athina-Cerise; Konstantinov, Pavel; Lampert, Astrid; MacLeod, Matthew; Magand, Olivier; Mahura, Alexander; Marelle, Louis; Masloboev, Vladimir; Moisseev, Dmitri; Moschos, Vaios; Neckel, Niklas; Onishi, Tatsuo; Osterwalder, Stefan; Ovaska, Aino; Paasonen, Pauli; Panchenko, Mikhail; Pankratov, Fidel; Pernov, Jakob Boyd; Platis, Andreas; Popovicheva, Olga; Raut, Jean-Christophe; Riandet, Aurélie; Sachs, Torsten; Salvatori, Rosamaria; Salzano, Roberto; Schröder, Ludwig; Schön, Martin; Shevchenko, Vladimir P; Skov, Henrik; Sonke, Jeroen E; Spolaor, Andrea; Stathopoulos, Vasileios K; Strahlendorff, Mikko; Thomas, Jennie L; Vitale, Vito; Vratolis, Sterios; Barbante, Carlo; Chabrillat, Sabine; Eleftheriadis, Konstantinos; Law, Kathy S; Massling, Andreas; Noe, Steffen M; Paris, Jean-Daniel; Prévôt, André S H; Riipinen, Ilona; Wehner, Birgit; Xie, Zhiyong; Lappalainen, Hanna K (2020): Overview: Integrative and Comprehensive Understanding on Polar Environments (iCUPE) – concept and initial results. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 20(14), 8551-8592, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-8551-2020
Xavier, Carlton; Baykara, Metin; Wollesen de Longe, Robin; Altstädter, Barbara; Clusius, Petri; Vakkari, Ville; Thakur, Roseline; Beck, Lisa; Becagli, Silvia; Severi, Mirko; Traversi, Rita; Krejci, Radovan; Tunved, Peter; Mazzola, Mauro; Wehner, Birgit; Sipilä, Mikko; Kulmala, Markku; Boy, Michael; Roldin, Pontus (2022): Secondary aerosol formation in marine Arctic environments: a model measurement comparison at Ny-Ålesund. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 22(15), 10023-10043, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-10023-2022
Project(s):
Arctic Amplification (AC3)
Funding:
German Research Foundation (DFG), grant/award no. 218345998: Investigating the Small-Scale Vertical and Horizontal Variability of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer Aerosol using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
German Research Foundation (DFG), grant/award no. 268020496: TRR 172: ArctiC Amplification: Climate Relevant Atmospheric and SurfaCe Processes, and Feedback Mechanisms
Coverage:
Median Latitude: 78.927263 * Median Longitude: 11.871316 * South-bound Latitude: 78.916770 * West-bound Longitude: 11.817380 * North-bound Latitude: 78.938220 * East-bound Longitude: 11.934550
Date/Time Start: 2018-04-24T18:40:26 * Date/Time End: 2018-05-25T15:41:52
Comment:
Brief overview:
A full description of the sensors that are installed in ALADINA and the applied methods that were used during the post-processing are provided in Lampert et al. (2020). The meteorological data is complimentary filtered and all available parameters are in 1 Hz temporal resolution, respectively. The aerosol compartment in ALADINA consists of two condensation particle counters (CPC) of the same type (model 3007, TSI Inc.) that are operated with two different detection limits in order to calculate the number concentration of ultrafine particles in the size between 3 and 12 nm. In addition, one optical particle counter (OPC) is used (model GT-526S, Met One Instruments Inc.) that measures larger particles via six different size channels. In this case, the first three channels were selected for particle sizes of around 300, 500 and 700 nm.
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File descriptions:
Each file consists of the measured and post-processed parameters according to individual flights that were performed with the unmanned research aircraft ALADINA. This is further indicated by the common title “Arctic aerosol and atmospheric observations with ALADINA in Ny-Ålesund“ and more precisely given by flight date (2018-MM-DD) and flight number (ID01-ID50). For information: the flight with number ID08 is not provided due to technical issues during the field application.
This implies in total 49 single files for 49 measurement flights.
Each data file is composed of 12 columns with parameters that are listed below:
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Data -> 12 columns in 1 Hz temporal resolution
1. Date/Time: converted from GPS time in UTC
2. Alt: Altitude in meters above sea level (mASL)
3. Lat: Latitude WGS84 in decimal degree
4. Lon: Longitude WGS84 in decimal degree
5. TT: Air temperature, complimentary filtered in °C
6. RH: Relative humidity, complimentary filtered in %
7. PPPP: Air pressure (stat. pressure) in hPa
8. N>3: Aerosol particle number concentration from CPC1 (particles larger 3 nm)
9. N>12: Aerosol particle number concentration from CPC2 (particles larger 12 nm)
10. N>300: Aerosol particle number concentration from first channel of OPC
11. N>500: Aerosol particle number concentration from second channel of OPC
12. N>700: Aerosol particle number concentration from third channel of OPC
License:
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0)
Size:
49 datasets

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Datasets listed in this publication series

  1. Harm-Altstädter, B; Bärfuss, K; Bretschneider, L et al. (2022): Arctic aerosol and atmospheric observations with the unmanned research aircraft ALADINA during flight 20180424_01. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.947121
  2. Harm-Altstädter, B; Bärfuss, K; Bretschneider, L et al. (2022): Arctic aerosol and atmospheric observations with the unmanned research aircraft ALADINA during flight 20180425_02. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.947123
  3. Harm-Altstädter, B; Bärfuss, K; Bretschneider, L et al. (2022): Arctic aerosol and atmospheric observations with the unmanned research aircraft ALADINA during flight ALADINA_20180426_03. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.947125
  4. Harm-Altstädter, B; Bärfuss, K; Bretschneider, L et al. (2022): Arctic aerosol and atmospheric observations with the unmanned research aircraft ALADINA during flight ALADINA_20180501_04. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.947126
  5. Harm-Altstädter, B; Bärfuss, K; Bretschneider, L et al. (2022): Arctic aerosol and atmospheric observations with the unmanned research aircraft ALADINA during flight ALADINA_20180501_05. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.947127
  6. Harm-Altstädter, B; Bärfuss, K; Bretschneider, L et al. (2022): Arctic aerosol and atmospheric observations with the unmanned research aircraft ALADINA during flight ALADINA_20180501_06. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.947128
  7. Harm-Altstädter, B; Bärfuss, K; Bretschneider, L et al. (2022): Arctic aerosol and atmospheric observations with the unmanned research aircraft ALADINA during flight ALADINA_20180501_07. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.947129
  8. Harm-Altstädter, B; Bärfuss, K; Bretschneider, L et al. (2022): Arctic aerosol and atmospheric observations with the unmanned research aircraft ALADINA during flight ALADINA_20180514_09. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.947130
  9. Harm-Altstädter, B; Bärfuss, K; Bretschneider, L et al. (2022): Arctic aerosol and atmospheric observations with the unmanned research aircraft ALADINA during flight ALADINA_20180514_10. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.947131
  10. Harm-Altstädter, B; Bärfuss, K; Bretschneider, L et al. (2022): Arctic aerosol and atmospheric observations with the unmanned research aircraft ALADINA during flight ALADINA_20180515_11. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.947137
  11. Harm-Altstädter, B; Bärfuss, K; Bretschneider, L et al. (2022): Arctic aerosol and atmospheric observations with the unmanned research aircraft ALADINA during flight ALADINA_20180515_12. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.947138
  12. Harm-Altstädter, B; Bärfuss, K; Bretschneider, L et al. (2022): Arctic aerosol and atmospheric observations with the unmanned research aircraft ALADINA during flight ALADINA_20180515_13. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.947139
  13. Harm-Altstädter, B; Bärfuss, K; Bretschneider, L et al. (2022): Arctic aerosol and atmospheric observations with the unmanned research aircraft ALADINA during flight ALADINA_20180515_14. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.947140
  14. Harm-Altstädter, B; Bärfuss, K; Bretschneider, L et al. (2022): Arctic aerosol and atmospheric observations with the unmanned research aircraft ALADINA during flight ALADINA_20180515_15. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.947141
  15. Harm-Altstädter, B; Bärfuss, K; Bretschneider, L et al. (2022): Arctic aerosol and atmospheric observations with the unmanned research aircraft ALADINA during flight ALADINA_20180515_16. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.947142
  16. Harm-Altstädter, B; Bärfuss, K; Bretschneider, L et al. (2022): Arctic aerosol and atmospheric observations with the unmanned research aircraft ALADINA during flight ALADINA_20180519_17. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.947143
  17. Harm-Altstädter, B; Bärfuss, K; Bretschneider, L et al. (2022): Arctic aerosol and atmospheric observations with the unmanned research aircraft ALADINA during flight ALADINA_20180519_18. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.947144
  18. Harm-Altstädter, B; Bärfuss, K; Bretschneider, L et al. (2022): Arctic aerosol and atmospheric observations with the unmanned research aircraft ALADINA during flight ALADINA_20180519_19. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.947145
  19. Harm-Altstädter, B; Bärfuss, K; Bretschneider, L et al. (2022): Arctic aerosol and atmospheric observations with the unmanned research aircraft ALADINA during flight ALADINA_20180519_20. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.947146
  20. Harm-Altstädter, B; Bärfuss, K; Bretschneider, L et al. (2022): Arctic aerosol and atmospheric observations with the unmanned research aircraft ALADINA during flight ALADINA_20180519_21. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.947147
  21. Harm-Altstädter, B; Bärfuss, K; Bretschneider, L et al. (2022): Arctic aerosol and atmospheric observations with the unmanned research aircraft ALADINA during flight ALADINA_20180519_22. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.947148
  22. Harm-Altstädter, B; Bärfuss, K; Bretschneider, L et al. (2022): Arctic aerosol and atmospheric observations with the unmanned research aircraft ALADINA during flight ALADINA_20180519_23. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.947149
  23. Harm-Altstädter, B; Bärfuss, K; Bretschneider, L et al. (2022): Arctic aerosol and atmospheric observations with the unmanned research aircraft ALADINA during flight ALADINA_20180520_24. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.947150
  24. Harm-Altstädter, B; Bärfuss, K; Bretschneider, L et al. (2022): Arctic aerosol and atmospheric observations with the unmanned research aircraft ALADINA during flight ALADINA_20180520_25. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.947151
  25. Harm-Altstädter, B; Bärfuss, K; Bretschneider, L et al. (2022): Arctic aerosol and atmospheric observations with the unmanned research aircraft ALADINA during flight ALADINA_20180520_26. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.947152
  26. Harm-Altstädter, B; Bärfuss, K; Bretschneider, L et al. (2022): Arctic aerosol and atmospheric observations with the unmanned research aircraft ALADINA during flight ALADINA_20180520_27. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.947153
  27. Harm-Altstädter, B; Bärfuss, K; Bretschneider, L et al. (2022): Arctic aerosol and atmospheric observations with the unmanned research aircraft ALADINA during flight ALADINA_20180520_28. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.947154
  28. Harm-Altstädter, B; Bärfuss, K; Bretschneider, L et al. (2022): Arctic aerosol and atmospheric observations with the unmanned research aircraft ALADINA during flight ALADINA_20180521_29. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.947155
  29. Harm-Altstädter, B; Bärfuss, K; Bretschneider, L et al. (2022): Arctic aerosol and atmospheric observations with the unmanned research aircraft ALADINA during flight ALADINA_20180521_30. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.947156
  30. Harm-Altstädter, B; Bärfuss, K; Bretschneider, L et al. (2022): Arctic aerosol and atmospheric observations with the unmanned research aircraft ALADINA during flight ALADINA_20180521_31. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.947158
  31. Harm-Altstädter, B; Bärfuss, K; Bretschneider, L et al. (2022): Arctic aerosol and atmospheric observations with the unmanned research aircraft ALADINA during flight ALADINA_20180521_32. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.947159
  32. Harm-Altstädter, B; Bärfuss, K; Bretschneider, L et al. (2022): Arctic aerosol and atmospheric observations with the unmanned research aircraft ALADINA during flight ALADINA_20180521_33. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.947160
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  34. Harm-Altstädter, B; Bärfuss, K; Bretschneider, L et al. (2022): Arctic aerosol and atmospheric observations with the unmanned research aircraft ALADINA during flight ALADINA_20180521_35. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.947162
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