Meteorological and cloud conditions during the Arctic Ocean 2018 expedition

Vüllers, Jutta; Achtert, Peggy; Brooks, Ian M.; Tjernström, Michael; Prytherch, John; Burzik, Annika; Neely III, Ryan

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-289-2021

Articles | Volume 21, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-289-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-289-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 21, issue 1

Research article

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13 Jan 2021

Research article |

| 13 Jan 2021

Meteorological and cloud conditions during the Arctic Ocean 2018 expedition

Jutta Vüllers, Peggy Achtert, Ian M. Brooks, Michael Tjernström, John Prytherch, Annika Burzik, and Ryan Neely III

Data sets

Cloudnet remote sensing retrievals of cloud properties during the Arctic Ocean 2018 expedition Jutta Vüllers, Peggy Achtert, Ian Brooks, Ryan Neely III, and Barbara Brooks https://doi.org/10.17043/ao2018-cloudnet-3

Radiosonde data from the Arctic Ocean 2018 expedition John Prytherch, Michael Tjernström, Jutta Vüllers, Peggy Achtert, Ian Brooks, Grace Porter, and Mike Adams https://doi.org/10.17043/ao2018-radiosonde-2

Present weather sensor visibility and precipitation data from the Arctic Ocean 2018 expedition John Prytherch https://doi.org/10.17043/ao2018-present-weather

Weather data from MISU weather station during the Arctic Ocean 2018 expedition John Prytherch https://doi.org/10.17043/ao2018-misu-weather-2

Micrometeorological data from icebreaker Oden’s foremast during the Arctic Ocean 2018 expedition. John Prytherch and Michael Tjernström https://doi.org/10.17043/ao2018-micromet-oden-3

Short summary

This paper provides interesting new results on the thermodynamic structure of the boundary layer, cloud conditions, and fog characteristics in the Arctic during the Arctic Ocean 2018 campaign. It provides information for interpreting further process studies on aerosol–cloud interactions and shows substantial differences in thermodynamic conditions and cloud characteristics based on comparison with previous campaigns. This certainly raises the question of whether it is just an exceptional year.