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Abstract:
During a 4-week measurement campaign (ISLAS2022) in March and April 2022, we collected a comprehensive dataset characterizing the atmospheric water vapour and precipitation isotope composition within weather systems in the European Arctic and sub-Arctic. Focusing on an area covering the Nordic Seas and Northern Scandinavia, stable water isotope measurements with cavity ring-down spectrometers (CRDS) were taken from a research aircraft stationed at Kiruna, Sweden; from a Research Vessel going from Tromsø to the western ice edge in Greenland, and from measurements at supersites at Andenes on the Lofoten archipelago, Abisko, and Kiruna. Water vapour and precipitation isotope measurements from different sites and platforms were complemented by additional instrumentation to characterize the atmospheric conditions. Advanced instrumentation included wind LIDAR, ground-based vertical-pointing rain radar, and aerosol measurements at Andenes, two-directional depolarising aerosol LIDAR and horizontal cloud RADAR on the aircraft. Controlled meteorological balloons were launched from Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard into cold-air outbreak conditions. Surface precipitation samples were collected from a surface network including Abisko, Andenes, Kiruna, Longyearbyen, Ny-Ålesund, Jan Mayen, Bjørnøya, Tarfala, Ålesund, and Bergen. Surface snow was repeatedly sampled along a detailed transect from Kiruna to Lofoten archipelago. Citizen science snow sampling contributed to distributed surface snow sampling in Northern Scandinavia. All stable water isotope measurements have been calibrated onto the VSMOW-SLAP scale. The data from the ISLAS2022 measurement campaign enables the comprehensive assessment of air mass transformation and water turnover during cold-air outbreak conditions using stable water isotopes as a constraint.
This dataset contains measurements of precipitation amount, visibility, weather code, particle fall speed distribution, and precipitation size distribution for the site Andenes (69.298°N, 16.048°E), Norway, during the ISLAS2022 field campaign. Distribution of particle size and particle speed were classified into 32 range bins. The primary purpose of this dataset is to report precipitation characteristics at high time resolution. These measurements of precipitation characteristics were obtained from an OTT Parsivel 2 disdrometer that was installed on a measurement container near the shoreline south of Andenes. All variables are available at 60s time resolution.
Keyword(s):
ISLAS; Norway; precipitation
Coverage:
Latitude: 69.298000 * Longitude: 16.048000
Date/Time Start: 2022-03-01T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2022-04-30T00:00:00
Event(s):
IS22_Andenes * Latitude: 69.298000 * Longitude: 16.048000 * Date/Time Start: 2022-03-01T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2022-04-30T00:00:00 * Location: Sweden * Campaign: ISLAS2022 * Basis: Multiple platforms * Method/Device: Multiple investigations (MULT)
License:
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0) (License comes into effect after moratorium ends)
Status:
Curation Level: Enhanced curation (CurationLevelC)
Size:
10.1 MBytes

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