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Arctic Cloud Summer Expedition (ACSE): turbulence wind and sonic temperature measurements from the University of Leeds Metek USA-100 sonic anemometer on board Icebreaker Oden

This dataset contains turbulent winds and sonic temperature measurements by the University of Leeds' Metek USA-100 sonic anemometer during the Arctic Cloud Summer Expedition (ACSE). The ACSE cruise took place in the Arctic during summer 2014. These data were obtained to complement a suite of other observations taken during the cruise. Those of the UK contribution, as well as selected other data, are available within the associated data collection in the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) archives. Other cruise data may be available in the NOAA ACSE and The Bolin Centre for Climate Research SWERUS (SWEdish-Russian-US) holdings - see online resources linked to this record.

Measurements were made at 20Hz from which 20-minute average fluxes were then derived.

The sonic anemometer was located on the foremast of the Icebreaker Oden ship at 20.58 m above the waterline. Data here includes the raw measurements and fully corrected turbulent winds (motion correction, flow distortion correction, etc), along with sonic temperature. For details of motion and flow distortion see the linked documentation.

Note that while the Metek anemometer uses a left-handed reference frame, all measurements have been transformed to a right-handed frame here. The anemometer x-axis was rotated 30 deg anticlockwise from ship bow.

The Arctic Cloud Summer Expedition (ACSE) was a collaboration between the University of Leeds, the University of Stockholm, and NOAA-CIRES. ACSE aimed to study the response of Arctic boundary layer cloud to changes in surface conditions in the Arctic Ocean as a working package of the larger Swedish-Russian-US Investigation of Climate, Cryosphere and Carbon interaction (SWERUS-C3) Expedition in Summer 2014. This expedition was a core component to the overall SWERUS-C3 programme and was supported by the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat.

ACSE took place during a 3-month cruise of the Swedish Icebreaker Oden from Tromso, Norway to Barrow, Alaska and back over the summer of 2014. During this cruise ACSE scientists measured surface turbulent exchange, boundary layer structure, and cloud properties. Many of the measurements used remote sensing approaches - radar, lidar, and microwave radiometers - to retrieve vertical profiles of the dynamic and microphysical properties of the lower atmosphere and cloud.

The UK participation of ACSE was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC, grant: NE/K011820/1) and involved instrumentation from the Atmospheric Measurement Facility of the UK's National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS AMF). This dataset collection contains data mainy from the UK contribution with some additional data from other institutes also archived to complement the suite of meteorological measurements.

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Metadata Language
English (en)
Dataset Reference Date ()
2018-04-14T12:47:43
Dataset Reference Date ()
2018-04-14T12:47:43
Identifier
http://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/bfa8b9457e1a4cb6aa506316295564b2
Identifier
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / bfa8b9457e1a4cb6aa506316295564b2
Identifier
doi / http://dx.doi.org/10.5285/bfa8b9457e1a4cb6aa506316295564b2
  Unavailable - Prytherch, John ( author )
  Unavailable - Brooks, Ian M. ( author )
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - custodian
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - distributor
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - point_of_contact
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
  Unavailable - Brooks, Ian M. ( point_of_contact )
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - publisher
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
Maintenance and update frequency
notPlanned
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dataset
Keywords
  • turbulence
  • turbulent winds
  • sonic anemometer
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  • atmospheric conditions
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Use of these data is covered by the following licence: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ . When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.
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Topic category
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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Begin date
2014-07-10T13:02:00
End date
2014-10-02T22:57:59
 
Code
WGS 84

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Moat, B. I., M. J. Yelland, and I. M. Brooks, 2015: Airflow distortion at instrument sites on the ODEN during the ACSE project, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK Internal Document No. 17

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Prytherch, J., M. J. Yelland, I. M. Brooks, D. J. Tupman, R. W. Pascal, B. I. Moat, S. J. Norris. 2015: Motion-correlated flow distortion and wave-induced biases in air-sea flux measurements from ships. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 15, 10619<96>10629, doi:10.5194/acp-15-10619-2015

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Prytherch, J., I. M. Brooks, P. Crill, B. Thornton, D. J. Salisbury, M. Tjernstr▒m, L. Anderson, M. C. Geibel, C. Humborg, 2017: Direct determination of the air-sea CO2 gas transfer velocity in Arctic sea ice regions, Geophys. Res. Letts, 44, doi:10.1002/2017GL073593

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Moat, B. I., M. J. Yelland, and I. M. Brooks, 2015: Airflow distortion at instrument sites on the ODEN during the ACSE project, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK Internal Document No. 17

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Prytherch, J., M. J. Yelland, I. M. Brooks, D. J. Tupman, R. W. Pascal, B. I. Moat, S. J. Norris. 2015: Motion-correlated flow distortion and wave-induced biases in air-sea flux measurements from ships. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 15, 10619<96>10629, doi:10.5194/acp-15-10619-2015

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Prytherch, J., I. M. Brooks, P. Crill, B. Thornton, D. J. Salisbury, M. Tjernstr▒m, L. Anderson, M. C. Geibel, C. Humborg, 2017: Direct determination of the air-sea CO2 gas transfer velocity in Arctic sea ice regions, Geophys. Res. Letts, 44, doi:10.1002/2017GL073593

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Dataset Reference Date ()
2010-12-08
Statement
Data were collected, quality controlled and prepared for archiving by the instrument scientists before upload to the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) for long term archiving.

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English (en)
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8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646
Parent identifier
Arctic Cloud Summer Expedition (ACSE): surface and boundary layer meteorological measurements on board the Icebreaker Oden e75e1e57932d4b95831fa7b56a2016e1
Resource type
dataset
Metadata Date
2022-05-26T00:28:03
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version
2.3
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
 
 

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