Schmithüsen, Holger; Rohleder, Christian; Eifried, Markus (2025): Radiosonde raw data measured during POLARSTERN cruise PS128, links to files [dataset]. Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, PANGAEA, https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.987948 (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; Rohleder, Christian; Eifried, Markus (2025): Radiosonde measurements during POLARSTERN cruise PS128 [dataset]. Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.974540
Project(s):
Meteorological Long-Term Observations @ AWI (AWI_Meteo)
Coverage:
Median Latitude: -64.430164 * Median Longitude: 23.296356 * South-bound Latitude: -70.605000 * West-bound Longitude: -9.384000 * North-bound Latitude: -36.645000 * East-bound Longitude: 66.230000
Date/Time Start: 2022-01-07T10:55:00 * Date/Time End: 2022-02-27T10:54:00
Event(s):
PS128_42719 * Latitude: -36.645180 * Longitude: 16.927690 * Date/Time: 2022-01-07T10:55:29 * Campaign: PS128 (EASI-1) * Basis: Polarstern * Method/Device: Radiosonde (RADIO)
PS128_42720 * Latitude: -40.549110 * Longitude: 14.939610 * Date/Time: 2022-01-08T10:55:21 * Campaign: PS128 (EASI-1) * Basis: Polarstern * Method/Device: Radiosonde (RADIO)
PS128_42721 * Latitude: -44.415220 * Longitude: 12.852060 * Date/Time: 2022-01-09T10:55:23 * Campaign: PS128 (EASI-1) * 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:
73 data points