JATAC/CAVA-AW Aeolus Cal/Val airborne campaign dataset

DOI

10.60621/cava-aw.campaign.2021.2022.caboverde

Publisher

ESA Atmospheric Validation Data Center

Creators

Mocnik, Grisa

Yus-Diez, Jesus

Publication Year

2023

Resource Type

Dataset

Subject

Atmospheric Science: CAVA-AW campaign incorporates the dataset collected from 7 instruments during the Joint Aeolus Tropical Atlantic Campaign (JATAC) in Cabo Verde 2021 and 2022. The dataset is available at the EVDC Data Handling Facilities.

Contributors

Mocnik, Grisa (ProjectLeader)

Yus-Diez, Jesus (DataCurator)

Bervida Macak, Marija (DataCurator)

Drinovec, Luka (DataCurator)

Zibert, Blaz (DataCurator)

Uros, Jagodic (DataCurator)

Lenarcic, Matevz (DataCurator)

Dates

Created: 2023-09-21

Issued: 2023

Data Format

netCDF

Data Policy

Creative Commons Attribution-4.0 International (CC-BY 4.0)

In addition to the CC BY license, the EVDC and JATAC Data Use Agreements including publication co-authorship policy must always be respected see https://protocol.evdc.nilu.no/ and https://jatac-protocol.evdc.nilu.no/

Descriptions

Light aircraft (WT10 - experimental) with position and windspeed variables provided by onboard GPS, as well as additional meteorological sensors. The aircraft was mounted with a: a sunshine pyranometer type SPN1 (Delta-T Devices Ltd), a polar integrating nephelometer AURORA 4000 (Ecotech Pty Ltd), and had a dual sampling line aircraft for measurements at the fine and coarse fraction of the absorption by two Continuous Light Absorption Photometer (CLAPS, by Haze Instruments d.o.o.) and the particle size distribution by two optical particle counters (OPC, model 11D, GRIMM Technologies). The pyranometer provides measurements of the global, direct and diffuse irradiance for a radiation spectrum range between 400 and 2700nm with a 1s time resolution. The polar integrating nephelometer measures the scattering coefficients of particles at three wavelengths (450, 525 and 635 nm) and multiple angles (two selected for the campaign: 0, 90deg) with a 5s time resolution. The CLAP photometers measure the absorption coefficient by aerosol particles at three wavelengths (467, 529 and 653 nm) with a 1s time resolution. The OPC measurements provide the number and mass concentration of aerosol particles for 31 bins in the size range between 0.253 and 35.15 micrometers with a 6s time resolution.

Locations

Location: Mindelo, Cabo Verde

Latitude: 16.890

Longitude: -24.980

Funding

Funding provided by the European Space Agency (ESA) CAVA-AW project (no. 4000131931/20/NL/FF/an)

Download Data

https://secondary-data-archive.nilu.no/evdc/aeolus/cava-aw_campaign_2021_2022_caboverde/