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Article Dans Une Revue (Data Paper) Earth System Science Data Année : 2021

Ship- and island-based atmospheric soundings from the 2020 EUREC4A field campaign

Hauke Schulz
Renaud Person
Benjamin Charpentier
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Richard Wilson
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Bjorn Stevens

Résumé

To advance the understanding of the interplay among clouds, convection, and circulation, and its role in climate change, the EUREC4A and ATOMIC field campaigns collected measurements in the western tropical Atlantic during Jan-uary and February 2020. Upper-air radiosondes were launched regularly (usually 4-hourly) from a network consisting of the Barbados Cloud Observatory (BCO) and four ships within 51–60 ◦W, 6–16 ◦N. From January 8 to February 19, a total of 812 radiosondes measured wind, temperature and relative humidity. In addition to the ascent, the descent was recorded for 82 % of the soundings. The soundings sampled changes in atmospheric pressure, winds, lifting condensation level, boundary layer depth, and vertical distribution of moisture associated with different ocean surface conditions, synoptic variability, and mesoscale convective organization. Raw (Level-0), quality-controlled 1-second (Level-1), and vertically gridded (Level-2) data in NetCDF format (Stephan et al., 2020) are available to the public at AERIS (https://doi.org/10.25326/62). The methods of data collection and post-processing for the radiosonde data set are described here.
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insu-02918594 , version 1 (20-08-2020)
insu-02918594 , version 2 (26-02-2021)

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Claudia Christine Stephan, Sabrina Schnitt, Hauke Schulz, Hugo Bellenger, Simon P. de Szoeke, et al.. Ship- and island-based atmospheric soundings from the 2020 EUREC4A field campaign. Earth System Science Data, 2021, 13 (2), pp.491-514. ⟨10.5194/essd-13-491-2021⟩. ⟨insu-02918594v1⟩
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