Schmithüsen, Holger; Otte, Frank; Elsäßer, Antje; Wenzel, Julia (2025): Radiosonde raw data measured during POLARSTERN cruise PS130/1, links to files [dataset]. Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, PANGAEA, https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.987951 (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; Elsäßer, Antje; Wenzel, Julia (2025): Radiosonde measurements during POLARSTERN cruise PS130/1 [dataset]. Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.974542
Project(s):
Meteorological Long-Term Observations @ AWI (AWI_Meteo)
Coverage:
Median Latitude: -13.236000 * Median Longitude: -34.599400 * South-bound Latitude: -50.365000 * West-bound Longitude: -63.143000 * North-bound Latitude: 25.951000 * East-bound Longitude: -18.016000
Date/Time Start: 2022-05-01T10:58:00 * Date/Time End: 2022-05-21T10:55:00
Event(s):
PS130/1_42844 * Latitude: -50.365480 * Longitude: -63.142830 * Date/Time: 2022-05-01T10:58:05 * Campaign: PS130/1 (AtlanticTransit) * Basis: Polarstern * Method/Device: Radiosonde (RADIO)
PS130/1_42845 * Latitude: -46.506000 * Longitude: -58.969420 * Date/Time: 2022-05-02T10:55:08 * Campaign: PS130/1 (AtlanticTransit) * Basis: Polarstern * Method/Device: Radiosonde (RADIO)
PS130/1_42846 * Latitude: -43.201920 * Longitude: -53.761920 * Date/Time: 2022-05-03T10:56:11 * Campaign: PS130/1 (AtlanticTransit) * 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:
20 data points
Data
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| 1 Event | 2 Date/Time | 3 Latitude | 4 Longitude | 5 Binary (Size) [Bytes] | 6 Binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PS130/1_42844 | 2022-05-01T10:58 | -50.365 | -63.143 | 13283785 | DBLK_20220501_105805.mwx |
| PS130/1_42845 | 2022-05-02T10:55 | -46.506 | -58.969 | 14041986 | DBLK_20220502_105508.mwx |
| PS130/1_42846 | 2022-05-03T10:56 | -43.202 | -53.762 | 13732294 | DBLK_20220503_105611.mwx |
| PS130/1_42847 | 2022-05-04T10:56 | -39.832 | -49.219 | 13310155 | DBLK_20220504_105612.mwx |
| PS130/1_42848 | 2022-05-05T10:56 | -36.373 | -45.094 | 12586935 | DBLK_20220505_105620.mwx |
| PS130/1_42849 | 2022-05-06T10:55 | -33.098 | -41.145 | 14513949 | DBLK_20220506_105536.mwx |
| PS130/1_42850 | 2022-05-07T10:56 | -29.386 | -38.063 | 14199660 | DBLK_20220507_105611.mwx |
| PS130/1_42851 | 2022-05-08T10:56 | -24.744 | -35.795 | 13282517 | DBLK_20220508_105624.mwx |
| PS130/1_42852 | 2022-05-09T10:56 | -20.627 | -33.978 | 13885893 | DBLK_20220509_105634.mwx |
| PS130/1_42853 | 2022-05-10T10:55 | -16.721 | -32.308 | 13886635 | DBLK_20220510_105557.mwx |
| PS130/1_42854 | 2022-05-11T10:56 | -13.344 | -30.892 | 11488277 | DBLK_20220511_105620.mwx |
| PS130/1_42855 | 2022-05-12T10:59 | -9.155 | -29.016 | 12942968 | DBLK_20220512_105933.mwx |
| PS130/1_42856 | 2022-05-13T10:56 | -5.063 | -27.501 | 13872001 | DBLK_20220513_105620.mwx |
| PS130/1_42857 | 2022-05-15T10:55 | 3.322 | -24.628 | 13990341 | DBLK_20220515_105524.mwx |
| PS130/1_42858 | 2022-05-16T10:55 | 7.045 | -23.651 | 13349286 | DBLK_20220516_105523.mwx |
| PS130/1_42859 | 2022-05-17T10:57 | 10.821 | -22.675 | 14618354 | DBLK_20220517_105702.mwx |
| PS130/1_42860 | 2022-05-18T10:57 | 14.761 | -21.924 | 14897141 | DBLK_20220518_105718.mwx |
| PS130/1_42861 | 2022-05-19T10:56 | 18.964 | -21.418 | 13683943 | DBLK_20220519_105615.mwx |
| PS130/1_42862 | 2022-05-20T10:59 | 22.832 | -20.791 | 13057036 | DBLK_20220520_105922.mwx |
| PS130/1_42863 | 2022-05-21T10:55 | 25.951 | -18.016 | 12039552 | DBLK_20220521_105512.mwx |