Brief description
From the project summary:Both satellite products and climate models have large biases in the energy and water budgets over the Southern Ocean (SO), which is not surprising given this environment's unique nature. The air is free of dust and pollution, and the surface is governed by strong winds, large waves and heavy sea spray. These conditions lead to the greatest fractional cloud cover over any place on the globe. Much of these biases are a direct consequence of a poor understanding of the structure and dynamics of the SO atmospheric boundary layer, which in turn is a consequence of the sparse observations being available due to the harsh conditions. This proposals call for employing unmanned aerial vehicles/systems from Macquarie Island to make unprecedented observations of the boundary layer processes over the SO. These observations will be used to both model the boundary layer dynamics and clouds and evaluate satellite products and numerical simulations of surface fluxes, cloud properties and sea spray.
The data was recorded at lat: -54.5, lon:158.935. The observations include measurements of Absolute Humidity, Carbon Concentration, 3D wind, pressure, and ambient temperature.
The data is in netcdf4 format with medium compression, and have all available information in the attributes of each variable. The data can be easily previewed with an application like Panoply (https://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/panoply/).
The variable names are:
Ah_7500
Cc_7500
Diag_7500
Diag_CSAT
Ta_HMP
Tv_CSAT
Ux_CSAT
Uy_CSAT
Uz_CSAT
e_HMP
ps_7500
time
Issued: 2020-02-05
Data time period: 2016-11-07 to 2017-01-04
Data time period: 2018-01-17 to 2018-03-16
text: northlimit=-54.5; southlimit=-54.5001; westlimit=158.935; eastLimit=158.9351; projection=WGS84
User Contributed Tags
Login to tag this record with meaningful keywords to make it easier to discover
AU-ANL:PEAU :
http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-617536
- global : aacc95cd-b8f8-4460-a00f-b4cfb5f0fc8e
- DOI : 10.26179/5e43860e343f0
- Local : AAS_4340_macquarie_flux_10Hz_2016-2018_1
- URI : https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/AAS_4340_macquarie_flux_10Hz_2016-2018_1
- URI : https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/AAS_4340_macquarie_flux_10Hz_2016-2018_1