Schmithüsen, Holger; Otte, Frank; Suter, Patrick (2025): Radiosonde raw data measured during POLARSTERN cruise PS129, links to files [dataset]. Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, PANGAEA, https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.987950 (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; Suter, Patrick (2025): Radiosonde measurements during POLARSTERN cruise PS129 [dataset]. Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.974541
Project(s):
Meteorological Long-Term Observations @ AWI (AWI_Meteo)
Coverage:
Median Latitude: -64.315491 * Median Longitude: -19.200698 * South-bound Latitude: -70.994000 * West-bound Longitude: -62.847000 * North-bound Latitude: -37.195000 * East-bound Longitude: 16.489000
Date/Time Start: 2022-03-05T10:58:00 * Date/Time End: 2022-04-26T10:54:00
Event(s):
PS129_42792 * Latitude: -37.195120 * Longitude: 16.489220 * Date/Time: 2022-03-05T10:58:28 * Campaign: PS129 (HAFOS) * Basis: Polarstern * Method/Device: Radiosonde (RADIO)
PS129_42793 * Latitude: -40.451400 * Longitude: 14.475570 * Date/Time: 2022-03-06T10:55:07 * Campaign: PS129 (HAFOS) * Basis: Polarstern * Method/Device: Radiosonde (RADIO)
PS129_42794 * Latitude: -43.593070 * Longitude: 12.396570 * Date/Time: 2022-03-07T10:56:11 * Campaign: PS129 (HAFOS) * 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:
53 data points