Published April 2, 2020 | Version 1.0
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­Calibrated data of stable water isotope measurements in water vapour at 13.5 m a.s.l., made in the austral summer of 2016/2017 around the Southern Ocean during the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition (ACE).

  • 1. Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
  • 1. ETH Zurich, Switzerland
  • 2. University of Bergen, Norway
  • 3. Swiss Polar Institute, Lausanne, Switzerland
  • 4. University of Berlin, Germany

Description

Dataset abstract

This data set includes the calibrated data of stable water vapour isotope (δ18O, δ2H, deuterium excess) and water vapour mixing ratio measurements at approximately 13.5 m a.s.l. taken around the Southern Ocean during the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition (ACE) from November 2016 to April 2017 using a Picarro laser spectrometer L2130. The data provides continuous timelines of atmospheric water vapour properties in the marine boundary layer for studies of the atmospheric water cycle.

The raw data from which this calibrated dataset originates has been published separately (Thurnherr and Aemisegger, 2019; DOI 10.5281/zenodo.3664177).

Two other calibrated stable water isotope measurement datasets were also collected during ACE. They differ by the location of measurement on the ship: 8 m a.s.l on the starboard (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3739335) and port sides (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3739354).

Dataset contents

  • ACE_watervapour_isotopes_SWI13_1h.csv, data file, comma-separated values
  • ACE_watervapour_isotopes_SWI13_5min.csv, data file, comma-separated values
  • cal_runs_SWI13.csv, metadata, comma-separated values
  • data_file_header.txt, metadata, text format
  • README.txt, metadata, text format

NaN values denote missing values which occur because of e.g., maintenance, instrument calibration, large cavity variations.

Dataset license

This calibrated stable water isotope measurements in water vapour is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0) whose full text can be found at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Notes

The Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition was made possible by funding from the Swiss Polar Institute and Ferring Pharmaceuticals.

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References

  • Thurnherr, I., Kozachek, A., Graf, P., Weng, Y., Bolshiyanov, D., Landwehr, S. J., Pfahl, S., Schmale, J., Sodemann, H., Steen-Larsen, H. C., Toffoli, A., Wernli, H. and Aemisegger, F. (2020). Meridional and vertical variations of the marine boundary layer water vapour isotope composition in the Atlantic and the Southern Ocean. Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-2019-782, accepted.
  • IAEA: Reference Sheet for VSMOW2 and SLAP2 international measurement standards, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), 2009
  • David W H Walton, & Jenny Thomas. (2018, November 22). Cruise Report - Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition (ACE) 20th December 2016 - 19th March 2017 (Version 1.0). Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1443511