Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
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Articles | Volume 18, issue 3
Articles | Volume 18, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-18-749-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-18-749-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 18, issue 3
Research article
 | 
11 Feb 2025
Research article |  | 11 Feb 2025

The ASK-16 motorized glider: an airborne eddy covariance platform to measure turbulence, energy, and matter fluxes

Inge Wiekenkamp, Anna Katharina Lehmann, Alexander Bütow, Jörg Hartmann, Stefan Metzger, Thomas Ruhtz, Christian Wille, Mathias Zöllner, and Torsten Sachs

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-18-749-2025-supplement

Data sets

Airborne Wind and Eddy Covariance Dataset - Recorded with the ASK-16 EC Platform between 2017 – 2022 Inge Wiekenkamp et al. https://doi.org/10.5880/GFZ.1.4.2024.003

Model code and software

eddy4R 0.2.0: a DevOps model for community-extensible processing and analysis of eddy-covariance data based on R, Git, Docker, and HDF5 (https://github.com/NEONScience/eddy4R) Stefan Metzger et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-3189-2017

PyWingpod Inge Wiekenkamp et al. https://doi.org/10.5880/GFZ.1.4.2024.004

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Short summary
Airborne eddy covariance platforms are crucial to measure three-dimensional wind and turbulent matter and energy transport between the surface and the atmosphere at larger scales. In this study, we introduce a new airborne eddy covariance platform (Schleicher ASK-16) and demonstrate that this platform is able to accurately measure turbulent fluxes and wind vectors. Data from this platform can help to build bridges between local tower measurements and remote-sensing-based products.
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