JOANNE: Joint dropsonde Observations of the Atmosphere in tropical North atlaNtic meso-scale Environments

George, Geet; Stevens, Bjorn; Bony, Sandrine; Pincus, Robert; Fairall, Chris; Schulz, Hauke; Kölling, Tobias; Kalen, Quinn T.; Klingebiel, Marcus; Konow, Heike; Lundry, Ashley; Prange, Marc; Radtke, Jule

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-5253-2021

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Data description paper

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11 Nov 2021

Data description paper |

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JOANNE: Joint dropsonde Observations of the Atmosphere in tropical North atlaNtic meso-scale Environments

Geet George, Bjorn Stevens, Sandrine Bony, Robert Pincus, Chris Fairall, Hauke Schulz, Tobias Kölling, Quinn T. Kalen, Marcus Klingebiel, Heike Konow, Ashley Lundry, Marc Prange, and Jule Radtke

Data sets

JOANNE: Joint dropsonde Observations of the Atmosphere in tropical North atlaNtic meso-scale Environments (v2.0.0) Geet George, Bjorn Stevens, Sandrine Bony, Robert Pincus, Chris Fairall, Hauke Schulz, Tobias Kölling, Quinn T. Kalen, Marcus Klingebiel, Heike Konow, Ashley Lundry, Marc Prange, and Jule Radtke https://doi.org/10.25326/246

Model code and software

JOANNE (Joint dropsonde Observations of the Atmosphere in tropical North atlaNtic meso-scale Environments) software Geet George https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4746312

Short summary

Dropsondes measure atmospheric parameters such as temperature, pressure, humidity and horizontal winds. The EUREC⁴A field campaign deployed 1215 dropsondes during January–February 2020 in the north Atlantic trade-wind region in order to characterize the thermodynamic and the dynamic structure of the atmosphere, primarily at horizontal scales of ~ 200 km. We present JOANNE, the dataset that provides these dropsonde measurements and thereby a rich characterization of the trade-wind atmosphere.