Five-minute average horizontal wind velocity data combined from both sensors (which has been corrected for air-flow distortion) from the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition (ACE) 2016/2017 legs 0 to 4.

Dataset abstract

The horizontal wind velocity data from the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition (ACE) 2016/2017 legs 0 to 4 has been corrected for air-flow distortion. The measurements from both the port and starboad side anemometer were averaged to five-minute resolution and have been combined via vector averaging of the data. The ten meter neutral wind speed (U10N) has been estimated using ERA-5 surface heat fluxes, which were interpolated onto the ship's track, and the COARE 3.5 drag coefficient. This data set provides a continous and high-resolution record of the wind speed and direction near to the ship's location.

Dataset contents

• wind-observations-port-stbd-corrected-combined-5min-legs0-4.csv, data file, comma-separated values
• data_file_header, metadata, text format
• README.txt, metadata, text format

Dataset license

This five-minute averaged wind velocity dataset 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/