The new BELUGA setup for collocated turbulence and radiation measurements using a tethered balloon: first applications in the cloudy Arctic boundary layer

Egerer, Ulrike; Gottschalk, Matthias; Siebert, Holger; Ehrlich, André; Wendisch, Manfred

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-4019-2019

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22 Jul 2019

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| 22 Jul 2019

The new BELUGA setup for collocated turbulence and radiation measurements using a tethered balloon: first applications in the cloudy Arctic boundary layer

Ulrike Egerer, Matthias Gottschalk, Holger Siebert, André Ehrlich, and Manfred Wendisch

Data sets

Tethered balloon-borne measurements of turbulence and radiation during the Arctic field campaign PASCAL in June 2017 U. Egerer, M. Gottschalk, H. Siebert, M. Wendisch, and A. Ehrlich https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.899803

Measurements on the 10m meteorological and turbulence mast during the Arctic field campaign PASCAL in June 2017 U. Egerer and H. Siebert https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.899233

Short summary

In this study, we introduce the new tethered balloon system BELUGA, which includes different modular instrument packages for measuring turbulence and radiation in the atmospheric boundary layer. BELUGA was deployed in an Arctic field campaign in 2017, providing details of boundary layer processes in combination with low-level clouds. Those processes are still not fully understood and in situ measurements in the Arctic improve our understanding of the Arctic response in terms of global warming.