PANGAEA_996247 Height dependent aerosol optical depth in the spectral range from 350 nm - 1050 nm in August 2010 during TIFAX 2010 Herber, Andreas Height dependent aerosol optical depth in the spectral range from 350 nm - 1050 nm in August 2010 during TIFAX 2010 2026-07-31 PANGAEA Dataset https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.996247 Investigator Andreas Herber andreas.herber@awi.de Earth Science Event label Identification DATE/TIME ALTITUDE LATITUDE LONGITUDE Aerosol optical thickness at 414 nm Aerosol optical thickness at 500 nm Aerosol optical thickness at 861 nm Aerosol optical thickness at 1026 nm Spectral slope Aerosol optical thickness at 1000 nm Sun elevation Comment geoscientificInformation aerosol optical depth Airborne Sun photometer Aircraft TIFAX_1008170101 TIFAX_1008190301 TIFAX_1008200401 TIFAX_1008210501 TIFAX_1008220601 TIFAX_1008230701 TIFAX_2010 Airborne Sun Photometer, Dr. Schulz & Partner GmbH, SP1A POLAR 5 2010-08-17 2010-08-23 Complete 69.662 86.789 -64.422 19.034 46.0 m (ALTITUDE) 7000.0 m (ALTITUDE) access rights needed CC-BY-4.0: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (License comes into effect after moratorium ends) English PANGAEA Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science https://www.pangaea.de/ Data Center Contact Michael Diepenbroek info@pangaea.de

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Bremen Bremen 28359 Germany online 243 data points text/tab-separated-values Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung (2016): Polar aircraft Polar5 and Polar6 operated by the Alfred Wegener Institute. Journal of large-scale research facilities JLSRF, 2, A87, https://doi.org/10.17815/jlsrf-2-153 Stone, Robert S; Herber, Andreas; Vitale, Vito; Mazzola, Mauro; Lupi, Angelo; Schnell, R C; Dutton, Ellsworth G; Liu, P S K; Li, Shao-Meng; Dethloff, Klaus; Lampert, Astrid; Ritter, Christoph; Stock, M; Neuber, Roland; Maturilli, Marion (2010): A three-dimensional characterization of Arctic aerosols from airborne Sun photometer observations: PAM-ARCMIP, April 2009. Journal of Geophysical Research, 115(D13), D13203, https://doi.org/10.1029/2009JD013605

During the TIFAX 2010 ((Thick Ice Feeding Arctic Export) campaign, conducted in August 2010 over Greenland height dependent aerosol optical depth (AOD) in the spectral range from 350 nm to 1050 nm with the airborne Sun photometer SPTA were measured. Observations were performed on board of the Alfred-Wegener-Institute research aircraft Polar 5 during 6 flights between the 17 August 2010 up to 23 August 2010 with the operation base Station Nord (81° 36′ N, 16° 40′ W). Based on the height dependent aerosol optical depth for four selected wavelengths (414 nm, 500 nm, 861 nm, 1026 nm) and the Ångström parameter Alpha (spectral slope) and Beta (AOD at 1000 nm) between 46 m and 4975 m the extinction coefficient (AOD per kilometer) can be calculated for selected wavelengths, for example for LIDAR or satellite comparison and validation. For special comparison is also the height angle of the Sun included. ** For all details see the full metadata description at "https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.996247"!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altitude ALTITUDE http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_6709 LATITUDE http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_6709 LONGITUDE http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 DATE/TIME https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/information/glossary?title=Aerosol%20Optical%20Thickness Aerosol optical thickness at 414 nm https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/information/glossary?title=Aerosol%20Optical%20Thickness Aerosol optical thickness at 500 nm https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/information/glossary?title=Aerosol%20Optical%20Thickness Aerosol optical thickness at 861 nm https://doi.org/10.1029/2009JD013605 A three-dimensional characterization of Arctic aerosols from airborne Sun photometer observations: PAM-ARCMIP, April 2009 https://doi.org/10.17815/jlsrf-2-153 POLAR 5 https://doi.org/10.17815/jlsrf-2-153 Polar aircraft Polar5 and Polar6 operated by the Alfred Wegener Institute https://www.awi.de/en/about-us/organisation/staff/single-view/andreas-herber.html DIF 9.4 2026-07-31 2026-07-31