Airborne measurements of Arctic aerosol and meteorological parameters using the UAV ALADINA in Ny-Ålesund during melting season in May/June 2024

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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 143 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).

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.988207
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.961812
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.947132
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.5194/ar-1-39-2023
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.988353
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.984519
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.988207
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 2026
Funding Reference German Research Foundation https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001659 Crossref Funder ID 519822612 https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/519822612?language=en Aerosol variability and interaction with ambient conditions based on small-scale vertical and horizontal distribution of Arctic measurements (AIDA)
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Representation
Resource Type Publication Series of Datasets; Collection
Format application/zip
Size 38 datasets
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (11.818W, 78.919S, 11.899E, 78.938N)
Temporal Coverage Begin 2024-05-20T18:46:12Z
Temporal Coverage End 2024-06-04T16:58:00Z