Water vapor profiles from Raman Lidar at Neumayer Station III in 2023

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The dataset contains vertical profiles of atmospheric water vapor mixing ratio, including its errors. The measurements were performed with the Raman lidar PollyXT Arielle inside the Oceanet container. The platform was deployed approximately 380m south of Neumayer Station III, Antarctica (70.67°S, 8.27°W), from 16 January 2023 till 31 December 2023. The raw profiles were accumulated over 30 s and 7.5 m. For the retrieval of the humidity profiles, the data was additionally smoothed with a sliding average over 10 min and 5 vertical bins (bin-width is 7.5 m; lidar pointing direction is 5° off-zenith). The data is retrieved with the traditional Raman method for water vapour profiles (Whiteman et al., 1992) neglecting the difference of AOD (Aerosol Optical Depth) between 387 nm and 407 nm. Additionally, signal-to-noise (SNR) ratios of the two signals (at 407 nm for water vapour, and at 387 nm for nitrogen) and a quality mask (QM) are provided. The quality mask QM is equal to 1 (invalid) if the SNR at the 387 nm channel is <1 or the SNR of the 407 channel is <5.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.991540
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-22-0285.1
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1364/AO.31.003068
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.991540
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Creator Jakob, Friederike; Radenz, Martin (ORCID: 0000-0002-7771-033X); Baars, Holger ORCID logo; Engelmann, Ronny ORCID logo; Hengst, Rico ORCID logo; Klamt, Andi; Seifert, Patric ORCID logo; Foth, Andreas
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2026
Funding Reference Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven https://doi.org/10.13039/501100003207 Crossref Funder ID AWI_ANT_22 COALA; Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven https://doi.org/10.13039/501100003207 Crossref Funder ID AWI_NM_2023 Neumayer III; German Research Foundation https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001659 Crossref Funder ID 5472008 https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/5472008 Priority Programme 1158 Antarctic Research with Comparable Investigations in Arctic Sea Ice Areas
Rights Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 363 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-8.285W, -70.665S, -8.284E, -70.664N)
Temporal Coverage Begin 2023-01-16T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2023-12-31T00:00:00Z