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ICECAPS-ACE: Integrated Characterization of Energy, Clouds, Atmospheric state, and Precipitation at Summit, Greenland - Aerosol Cloud Experiment measurements
This dataset collection contains in situ atmospheric and aerosol measurements collected at Summit Station, Greenland.
These data were collected as part of the joint Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC) and US National Science Foundation (NSF) -funded Integrated Characterisation of Energy, Clouds, Atmospheric state, and Precipitation at Summit - Aerosol Cloud Experiment (ICECAPS-ACE) project. Since 2010, the ICECAPS project has been monitoring cloud-atmosphere-energy interactions at Summit Station, in the centre of the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS), using a comprehensive suite of ground-based remote sensing instruments and twice daily radiosonde profiles. In 2018, the Aerosol Cloud Experiment (ACE) expansion of ICECAPS saw the addition of a new series of instruments to measure surface aerosol concentrations and turbulent heat fluxes over the ice sheet. Combined with the original ICECAPS instrumentation, the ACE instruments allow for the study of cloud-aerosol-energy interactions over the central GrIS.
This dataset collection contains the measurements collected as part of the ACE component of ICECAPS-ACE, which includes the following:
1) Surface-temperature-profile: A near surface temperature profile from four temperature/ humidity sensors distributed on the 15 m tower at Summit.
2) Surface-moisture-profile: A near surface moisture profile from four temperature/ humidity sensors distributed on the 15 m tower at Summit.
3) Surface-winds-profile: A near surface wind profile from four sonic anemometers distributed on the 15 m tower at Summit.
4) Snow-height: The distance to the snow surface from the lowest level of instruments on the 15 m tower at Summit, detected by a sonic-ranging sensor.
5) Skin-temperature: The brightness temperature of the snow surface as detected by an infrared radiation thermometer.
6) Aerosol-concentration: The concentration of condensation nuclei (> 5nm diameter) measured at the surface using a Condensation Particle Counter.
7) Aerosol-size-distribution: The size-resolved concentration of surface aerosol particles between 0.25 and 6.5 um in diameter measured using an Optical Particle Counter.
8) Flux-components: High resolution temperature, humidity and wind fluctuations that can be used to estimate turbulent fluxes using eddy covariance, located at two levels on the 15 m tower at Summit.
9) Flux-estimates: Estimates of turbulent heat and momentum fluxes by applying the eddy covariance technique to flux-components.
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- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2020-07-03T10:32:43
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2020-07-03T10:32:43
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- Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / f06c6aa727404ca788ee3dd0515ea61a
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- series
- Keywords
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- ICECAPS-ACE
- aerosol
- boundary layer
- sensible heat flux
- latent heat flux
- turbulence
- temperature
- wind
- snow height
- snow surface temperature
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- atmospheric conditions
- Limitations on Public Access
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- Other constraints
- All data within this dataset collection are available to any registered CEDA user.
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- Usage limitations for the data within this collection is set at the individual dataset level. Please refer to the licence details of each underlying dataset.
- Spatial representation type
- grid
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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- Begin date
- 2019-02-09T00:00:00
- Code
- WGS 84
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
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Historical and complementary ICECAPS Data
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Information about Summit station
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List of publications
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Data processing scripts
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
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Historical and complementary ICECAPS Data
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Information about Summit station
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List of publications
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Data processing scripts
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- Quality Scope
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- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- Please see data lineage statements for each dataset within this collection for data lineage details.
Metadata
- File identifier
- f06c6aa727404ca788ee3dd0515ea61a XML
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Character set
- 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646
- Resource type
- series
- Hierarchy level name
- series
- Metadata Date
- 2022-08-18T01:09:34
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
