Schmithüsen, Holger; Otte, Frank; Wenzel, Julia; Suter, Patrick (2025): Radiosonde raw data measured during POLARSTERN cruise PS126, links to files [dataset]. Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, PANGAEA, https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.987946 (DOI registration in progress)
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Published: 2025-12-09
Abstract:
The meteorological observatory Polarstern continuously performs radiosoundings during times of ship operation. Typically, there is one launch to full altitude at 12 UTC every day. Additionally, there often is a launch with a smaller balloon for forecasting purposes (helicopter operations) around 6 UTC. All data published here is left "as recorded", no quality control was applied.
Other version:
Schmithüsen, Holger; Otte, Frank; Wenzel, Julia; Suter, Patrick (2025): Radiosonde measurements during POLARSTERN cruise PS126 [dataset]. Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.974539
Project(s):
Meteorological Long-Term Observations @ AWI (AWI_Meteo)
Coverage:
Median Latitude: 75.802310 * Median Longitude: 3.281310 * South-bound Latitude: 57.317000 * West-bound Longitude: -5.536000 * North-bound Latitude: 79.936000 * East-bound Longitude: 6.956000
Date/Time Start: 2021-05-25T10:56:00 * Date/Time End: 2021-06-25T10:56:00
Event(s):
PS126_42660 * Latitude: 57.316870 * Longitude: 5.219200 * Date/Time: 2021-05-25T10:56:55 * Campaign: PS126 (GPF 20-1_021) * Basis: Polarstern * Method/Device: Radiosonde (RADIO)
PS126_42661 * Latitude: 61.269200 * Longitude: 3.107760 * Date/Time: 2021-05-26T10:59:53 * Campaign: PS126 (GPF 20-1_021) * Basis: Polarstern * Method/Device: Radiosonde (RADIO)
PS126_42662 * Latitude: 65.213180 * Longitude: 3.383500 * Date/Time: 2021-05-27T10:56:06 * Campaign: PS126 (GPF 20-1_021) * Basis: Polarstern * Method/Device: Radiosonde (RADIO)
Comment:
Data files were produced by a proprietary radiosounding system from Vaisala. The format is referred to as "mwx". Technically, the files are zip files comprising several xml-documents.
Parameter(s):
| # | Name | Short Name | Unit | Principal Investigator | Method/Device | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Event label | Event | Schmithüsen, Holger | |||
| 2 | DATE/TIME | Date/Time | Schmithüsen, Holger | Geocode | ||
| 3 | LATITUDE | Latitude | Schmithüsen, Holger | Geocode | ||
| 4 | LONGITUDE | Longitude | Schmithüsen, Holger | Geocode | ||
| 5 | Binary Object (File Size) | Binary (Size) | Bytes | Schmithüsen, Holger | Radiosonde, Vaisala, DigiCora | |
| 6 | Binary Object | Binary | Schmithüsen, Holger | Radiosonde, Vaisala, DigiCora |
License:
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0)
Status:
Curation Level: Enhanced curation (CurationLevelC) * Processing Level: PANGAEA data processing level 1 (ProcLevel1)
Size:
29 data points
Data
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| 1 Event | 2 Date/Time | 3 Latitude | 4 Longitude | 5 Binary (Size) [Bytes] | 6 Binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PS126_42660 | 2021-05-25T10:56 | 57.317 | 5.219 | 14979378 | DBLK_20210525_105655.mwx |
| PS126_42661 | 2021-05-26T10:59 | 61.269 | 3.108 | 15417805 | DBLK_20210526_105953.mwx |
| PS126_42662 | 2021-05-27T10:56 | 65.213 | 3.384 | 14515720 | DBLK_20210527_105606.mwx |
| PS126_42663 | 2021-05-29T10:58 | 74.852 | 4.449 | 13624934 | DBLK_20210529_105833.mwx |
| PS126_42664 | 2021-05-30T10:57 | 78.622 | 6.801 | 15044473 | DBLK_20210530_105727.mwx |
| PS126_42665 | 2021-05-31T10:55 | 78.574 | 5.255 | 13809348 | DBLK_20210531_105555.mwx |
| PS126_42666 | 2021-06-01T10:55 | 79.073 | 4.430 | 15448179 | DBLK_20210601_105551.mwx |
| PS126_42667 | 2021-06-02T10:55 | 79.065 | 4.181 | 13644981 | DBLK_20210602_105550.mwx |
| PS126_42668 | 2021-06-03T11:02 | 79.000 | 4.332 | 13904458 | DBLK_20210603_110203.mwx |
| PS126_42669 | 2021-06-04T10:56 | 79.070 | 4.184 | 15344696 | DBLK_20210604_105644.mwx |
| PS126_42670 | 2021-06-05T10:55 | 79.132 | 6.104 | 15766602 | DBLK_20210605_105505.mwx |
| PS126_42671 | 2021-06-07T10:55 | 79.027 | 6.956 | 13701924 | DBLK_20210607_105543.mwx |
| PS126_42672 | 2021-06-09T10:57 | 79.206 | 4.681 | 15850223 | DBLK_20210609_105707.mwx |
| PS126_42673 | 2021-06-10T10:56 | 79.708 | 4.267 | 14335342 | DBLK_20210610_105615.mwx |
| PS126_42674 | 2021-06-11T10:56 | 79.708 | 4.230 | 14770391 | DBLK_20210611_105627.mwx |
| PS126_42675 | 2021-06-12T10:55 | 79.936 | 3.051 | 14607453 | DBLK_20210612_105557.mwx |
| PS126_42676 | 2021-06-13T10:56 | 78.816 | -2.790 | 13644141 | DBLK_20210613_105602.mwx |
| PS126_42677 | 2021-06-14T10:55 | 78.742 | -2.857 | 14859819 | DBLK_20210614_105553.mwx |
| PS126_42678 | 2021-06-15T10:55 | 78.995 | -5.536 | 14573121 | DBLK_20210615_105555.mwx |
| PS126_42679 | 2021-06-16T10:55 | 78.916 | -4.479 | 14060029 | DBLK_20210616_105548.mwx |
| PS126_42680 | 2021-06-17T10:55 | 79.133 | 2.763 | 15618456 | DBLK_20210617_105545.mwx |
| PS126_42681 | 2021-06-18T10:56 | 79.044 | 3.491 | 16319016 | DBLK_20210618_105614.mwx |
| PS126_42682 | 2021-06-19T10:55 | 79.057 | 4.175 | 16183827 | DBLK_20210619_105533.mwx |
| PS126_42683 | 2021-06-20T10:56 | 79.308 | 4.794 | 15254748 | DBLK_20210620_105618.mwx |
| PS126_42684 | 2021-06-21T10:56 | 79.099 | 4.540 | 14316593 | DBLK_20210621_105646.mwx |
| PS126_42685 | 2021-06-22T10:56 | 76.430 | 5.597 | 15851131 | DBLK_20210622_105616.mwx |
| PS126_42686 | 2021-06-23T10:56 | 71.838 | 4.076 | 14976196 | DBLK_20210623_105602.mwx |
| PS126_42687 | 2021-06-24T10:56 | 67.351 | 3.574 | 14704332 | DBLK_20210624_105603.mwx |
| PS126_42688 | 2021-06-25T10:56 | 62.766 | 3.178 | 13822560 | DBLK_20210625_105608.mwx |