Dataset
MOSAiC: Wind profiles and acoustic backscatter from a Scintec MFAS Sodar on Icebreaker Polarstern -version 1.0
Update Frequency: Not Planned
Latest Data Update: 2022-12-08
Status: Completed
Online Status: ONLINE
Publication State: Citable
Publication Date: 2022-12-12
DOI Publication Date: 2022-12-13
Download Stats: last 12 months
Dataset Size: 477 Files | 857MB
Abstract
Wind profiles and acoustic backscatter from a Scintec Flat Array Sodar (MFAS) Sodar deployed on the sea ice during for the international Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate
(MOSAiC). Variables include vertical backscatter, intensity, mean wind speed and direction, wind components, and standard deviations of the wind variables - in the instrument reference frame - along with wind speed and direction in the earth frame, and quality control variables at 10 minute intervals. Also vertical backscatter only at 5 minute intervals.
The University of Leeds participation in the project- MOSAiC Boundary Layer -was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC, grant: NE/S002472/1) and involved instrumentation from the Atmospheric Measurement and Observations Facility of the UK's National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS AMOF). This was a year-long project on the German icebreaker Polarstern to study Arctic climate focused on measurements of atmospheric boundary layer dynamics and turbulent structure.
Citable as: Brooks, I.M. (2022): MOSAiC: Wind profiles and acoustic backscatter from a Scintec MFAS Sodar on Icebreaker Polarstern -version 1.0. NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, 13 December 2022. doi:10.5285/93f2cf31702d4cf3a35f35f899fc0c6b. https://dx.doi.org/10.5285/93f2cf31702d4cf3a35f35f899fc0c6b
Abbreviation: Not defined
Keywords: MOSAiC, NE/S002472/1, AMOF, Arctic Ocean
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Process overview
This dataset was generated by instruments deployed on platforms as listed below.
Instrument/Platform pairings
| NCAS Sodar 1 - Scintec MFAS sodar | Deployed on: Research Vessel Polarstern |
| Output Description | None |
- units: 1
- var_id: Bavg
- long_name: Average (1 hour) acoustic backscatter intensity
- units: 1
- var_id: Bbg
- long_name: Background backscatter intensity
- units: 1
- var_id: B
- long_name: Total acoustic backscatter intensity
- units: 1
- var_id: conf
- long_name: data confidence [0:4], 0=error, 1=low, 2=medium, 3=high, 4=very high
- units: 1
- var_id: confu
- long_name: data confidence in u component [0:4], 0=error, 1=low, 2=medium, 3=high, 4=very high
- units: 1
- var_id: confv
- long_name: data confidence in v component [0:4], 0=error, 1=low, 2=medium, 3=high, 4=very high
- units: 1
- var_id: confw
- long_name: data confidence in w component [0:4], 0=error, 1=low, 2=medium, 3=high, 4=very high
- units: degrees
- standard_name: wind_from_direction
- var_id: winddirection_true
- long_name: direction ice-relative wind is from (degrees from north)
- units: degrees
- var_id: winddirection_instrument_relative
- long_name: direction wind is from (deg) relative to instrument reference frame
- units: 1
- var_id: errorcode
- long_name: error code
- units: 1
- var_id: errorcode
- long_name: error code for total wind values
- units: 1
- var_id: erru
- long_name: error code for u wind component
- units: 1
- var_id: errv
- long_name: error code for v wind component
- units: 1
- var_id: errw
- long_name: error code for w wind component
- var_id: baddirections_flag
- long_name: flag for bad wind directions from signal processing unit, 0=good, 1=bad
- units: 1
- var_id: fcsu
- long_name: frequency concensus score for u wind component. [0-1] higher values -> better concensus
- units: 1
- var_id: fcsv
- long_name: frequency concensus score for v wind component. [0-1] higher values -> better concensus
- units: 1
- var_id: fcsw
- long_name: frequency concensus score for w wind component. [0-1] higher values -> better concensus
- var_id: height
- long_name: measurement altitude (m)
- units: 1
- var_id: plsu
- long_name: number of pulses used for u wind component
- units: 1
- var_id: plsv
- long_name: number of pulses used for v wind component
- units: 1
- var_id: plsw
- long_name: number of pulses used for w wind component
- units: 1
- var_id: sgnu
- long_name: significance score for u wind component. [0-1] higher values -> better quality
- units: 1
- var_id: sgnv
- long_name: significance score for v wind component. [0-1] higher values -> better quality
- units: 1
- var_id: sgnw
- long_name: significance score for w wind component. [0-1] higher values -> better quality
- units: m/s
- var_id: sigu
- long_name: standard deviation of wind component (m/s) along instrument x-axis
- units: m/s
- var_id: sigv
- long_name: standard deviation of wind component (m/s) along instrument y-axis
- units: m/s
- var_id: sigw
- long_name: standard deviation of wind component (m/s) in vertical
- units: degrees
- var_id: sigdir
- long_name: standard deviation of wind direction
- var_id: time
- units: seconds
- long_name: time in seconds since 1970-1-1 00:00:00
- standard_name: wind_speed
- units: m/s
- var_id: windspeed_true
- long_name: true wind speed (horizontal) (m/s)
- units: s-1
- var_id: shear
- standard_name: wind_speed_shear
- long_name: wind component (m/s) along instrument x-axis
- units: m/s
- var_id: v
- long_name: wind component (m/s) along instrument y-axis
- standard_name: eastward_wind
- units: m/s
- var_id: u_true
- long_name: wind component (m/s) to east
- standard_name: northward_wind
- units: m/s
- var_id: v_true
- long_name: wind component (m/s) to north
- standard_name: upward_air_velocity
- units: m/s
- var_id: w
- long_name: wind component (m/s) vertically upward
- units: m/s
- var_id: windspeed_instrument_relative
- long_name: wind speed (horizontal) (m/s) relative to instrument and ice-surface
Co-ordinate Variables
Coverage
Temporal Range
Start time:
2019-10-16T00:00:00
End time:
2020-09-19T00:00:00
Geographic Extent
89.9900° |
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-165.0700° |
148.3800° |
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78.3400° |
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