Hydrometeor particle size distribution data collected using a snow particle counter on board the R/V Akademik Tryoshnikov in the Southern Ocean during the austral summer of 2016/17 as part of the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition (ACE).
- 1. CESAM – Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies, Department of Physics, University of Aveiro, Portugal
- 2. Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder, USA; School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland; WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Switzerland
- 3. Brown University, USA
- 4. WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Switzerland; School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
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- 1. CESAM – Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies, Department of Physics, University of Aveiro, Portugal
- 2. Brown University, USA
- 3. Swiss Polar Institute, Switzerland
- 4. Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder, USA; School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland; WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Switzerland
- 5. WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Switzerland; School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
Description
Dataset abstract
The data consist of the hydrometeor particle size distribution for particles with a size range (average diameter) from 36 to 490 μm (with the last bin including all detected particles larger than 490 μm) detecting the flux of snow, rain and other particles including sea spray passing through a photo-electric snow particle counter (SPC-95) installed on board the R/V Akademik Tryoshnikov as part of the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition (ACE). Data were recorded from January to March 2017 in the Southern Ocean. Here we present the raw data set, generated by the SPC-95 Data Processing Device, which consists of the number of particles, classified into 64 size bins, passing through the snow particle counter with a time resolution of one second. Data are presented in daily files and have undergone some pre-processing. The data were collected as part of ACE project 18 aiming to estimate freshwater fluxes (particularly precipitation and blowing snow) and understand their contribution to surface freshening in the Southern Ocean.
Dataset contents
- UYYMMDD_hhmmssSnow-XXX-1sec-org-YYYY.csv, data files, comma-separated values
- data_file_header.txt, metadata, text
- README.txt, metadata, text
where XXX is the sensor code number and YYY is the CF serial number.
Dataset license
This pre-processed hydrometeor particle flux dataset from ACE 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/
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ace_spc_horizontal_particle_flux_raw.zip
Additional details
Related works
- Is supplemented by
- Report: 10.5281/zenodo.1443511 (DOI)
- Dataset: 10.5281/zenodo.3483166 (DOI)
Funding
- Swiss National Science Foundation
- Antarctic precipitation, snow accumulation processes, and ice-ocean interactions PZ00P2_142684
References
- Thomas, Jenny, & Pina Estany, Carles. (2019). Quality-checked, one-minute resolution cruise track of the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition (ACE) undertaken during the austral summer of 2016/2017. (Version 1,0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3483166
- 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. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1443511
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