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Particle number size distribution of fluorescent, hyper-fluorescent, and total aerosol particles measured during the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition.

  • 1. Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland
  • 2. École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
  • 3. Institut für Meteorologie und Klimaforschung, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Karlsruhe, Germany; schnaiTEC GmbH, Karlsruhe, Germany
  • 1. École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
  • 2. Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland
  • 3. Institut für Meteorologie und Klimaforschung, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Karlsruhe, Germany; schnaiTEC GmbH, Karlsruhe, Germany
  • 4. Swiss Polar Institute, Switzerland

Description

Dataset abstract

This dataset consists of a 5-minute time series of particle number concentration of fluorescent and total aerosol particles that were measured by wideband integrated by aerosol sensor during the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition during the austral summer of 2016/2017. For this dataset, aerosol particles within the optical diameter range of 0.5 μm to 14.5 μm were considered. In this dataset, the time periods when samples are likely contaminated by the ship’s exhaust were removed from the time series.

Dataset contents

  • PSD_fluorescent.csv , data file, comma-separated values
  • PSD_hyper_fluorescent.csv , data file, comma-separated values
  • PSD_hyper_tot.csv , data file, comma-separated values
  • data_file_header.txt, metadata, text
  • README.txt, metadata, text

Dataset license

This particle number size distribution of fluorescent, hyper-fluorescent, and total aerosol particles 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/

Notes

The Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition was made possible by funding from the Swiss Polar Institute and Ferring Pharmaceuticals. We received funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation (project No. 169090).

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References

  • Perring, A. E., Schwarz, J. P., Baumgardner, D., Hernandez, M. T., Spracklen, D. V., Heald, C. L., et al. (2015). Airborne observations of regional variation in fluorescent aerosol across the United States. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 120(3), 1153–1170. https://doi.org/10.1002/2014JD022495