Tethered balloon-borne broadband thermal-infrared irradiance profile measurement data characterising the Arctic atmospheric boundary layer at Villum Research Station

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The tethered balloon system BELUGA (Balloon-bornE moduLar Utility for profilinG the lower Atmosphere) was operated during a collaborative measurement campaign at Villum Research Station (Greenland) in spring 2024 (2024-03-19 to 2024-04-18). BELUGA performed frequent profiling of the Arctic atmospheric boundary layer to examine transitions between typical states of the Arctic atmospheric boundary layer. The balloon payload included a combined turbulence meteorological probe (TMP), containing a radiosonde-based meteorological package and a hot-wire anemometer package for turbulence, as well as a broadband radiation probe (BP). The present dataset contains the processed up- and downward thermal near-infrared irradiances measured by the BP specified for each of the 28 flights from 24 March to 12 April 2024. The BP data is published with the TMP measurement data.

Each of the netCDF files provides the balloon-borne BELUGA broadband package L2 measurements at Villum Research Station (Greenland) for individual flights, in particular upward and downward thermal-infrared irradiance measurements. Quicklooks for each file are provided as PNGs files.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.987001
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.986431
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2025-651
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02423-5
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2021.00060
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.987001
Provenance
Creator Dorff, Henning ORCID logo; Schäfer, Michael ORCID logo; Siebert, Holger; Müller, Joshua ORCID logo; Navale, Komal; Wu, Fan; Ehrlich, André ORCID logo; Wendisch, Manfred ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2026
Funding Reference German Research Foundation https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001659 Crossref Funder ID 268020496 https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/268020496 TRR 172: ArctiC Amplification: Climate Relevant Atmospheric and SurfaCe Processes, and Feedback Mechanisms
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 108 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-16.670 LON, 81.602 LAT)
Temporal Coverage Begin 2024-03-24T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2024-04-12T00:00:00Z