Airborne measurements of Arctic aerosol and meteorological parameters using the UAV ALADINA in Ny-Ålesund during flight AIDA_ALADINA_20240531_21

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The influence of aerosol particles on the Arctic climate system and their role in the Arctic amplification remains uncertain. Further research is required to gain a broader understanding of the processes that drive or suppress new particle formation along with transport and spatial distribution of aerosol particles, especially in the atmospheric boundary layer. This dataset provides airborne measurements of the aerosol particle number concentration in different size classes alongside meteorological parameters. During the field campaign, the uncrewed aerial system (UAV) ALADINA (Application of Lightweight Aircraft for Detecting In-situ Aerosols) operated from the airport in Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard, between 20 May and 4 June. The 38 measurement flights consist of 145 vertical profiles up to 930 m altitude above mean sea level (MSL) and 62 horizontal flight legs above land and the Kongsfjord at multiple constant altitudes. A detailed description of the AIDA campaign (Aerosol variability and Interaction with ambient conditions based on small-scale vertical and horizontal Distribution of Arctic measurements), the ALADINA system and the applied methods during the post-processing will be provided by Schuchard et al. (in preparation).

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DOI https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.988251
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Provenance
Creator Schuchard, Malte ORCID logo; Bärfuss, Konrad ORCID logo; Bretschneider, Lutz ORCID logo; Käthner, Ralf; Lampert, Astrid ORCID logo; Pilz, Christian ORCID logo; Schlerf, Andreas ORCID logo; Harm-Altstädter, Barbara (ORCID: 0000-0002-3216-550X)
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2025
Funding Reference German Research Foundation https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001659 Crossref Funder ID 519822612 https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/519822612 Aerosol-Variabilität und Interaktion mit Umgebungsbedingungen basierend auf der kleinskaligen vertikalen und horizontalen Verteilung bei Messungen in der Arktis (AIDA)
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; Data access is restricted (moratorium, sensitive data, license constraints); https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 2281927 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (11.825W, 78.922S, 11.898E, 78.931N); Ny-Ålesund, Spitsbergen
Temporal Coverage Begin 2024-05-31T08:30:54Z
Temporal Coverage End 2024-05-31T09:10:22Z