Wind data from Concordia Station, Antarctica (2017 to 2022)

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This dataset contains wind measurements recorded by three Young A05103 anemometers located approximately 800 m from Concordia Station, East Antarctica, as well as derived parameters calculated from these measurements. The dataset includes date with UTC time (TIMESTAMP), wind speed [m s⁻¹] and wind direction (degrees, 0 = North, +90 = East) for each anemometer (wsp_0_WVc(1), wsp_1_WVc(1), wsp_2_WVc(1)), the height of each instrument (z0, z1, z2) [cm], snow flux [kg/m/s ] calculated for a threshold wind speed of 6 m s⁻¹ following the formula of Schmidt, R. A. (1982), with an air density of 0.95 kg/m3 and aerodynamic roughness of 1mm (flux_flat), and the resultant drift direction (RDD). The observations were collected as part of a long-term study of snow surface evolution aimed at quantifying the role of snow in Antarctica climate. The primary purpose of this dataset is to provide standardized quantitative descriptors of snow barchan migration and geometry for use in studies of surface processes, wind-driven sediment transport, and landscape evolution in polar environments.

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DOI https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.990228
Related Identifier IsPartOf https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.990219
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1029/RG020i001p00039
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.990228
Provenance
Creator Poizat, Marine ORCID logo; Alkalla, Jeanne; Picard, Ghislain ORCID logo; Arnaud, Laurent ORCID logo; Lefebvre, Eric; Narteau, Clément
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2026
Funding Reference Agence Nationale de la Recherche https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001665 Crossref Funder ID ANR-18-IDEX-0001 ; Agence Nationale de la Recherche https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001665 Crossref Funder ID ANR-23-CE56-0008 ; Institut Polaire Français Paul Émile Victor https://doi.org/10.13039/501100004796 Crossref Funder ID NIVO-1110 https://institut-polaire.fr/en/programmes_soutenus/snow-properties-evolution-in-a-changing-climate-in-antarctica/ Snow properties evolution in a changing climate in Antarctica
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 421536 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (123.298 LON, -75.098 LAT); Dome C
Temporal Coverage Begin 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2023-01-10T04:00:00Z