10 years of temperature and wind observation on a 45&thinsp;m tower at Dome C, East Antarctic plateau

Genthon, Christophe; Veron, Dana; Vignon, Etienne; Six, Delphine; Dufresne, Jean-Louis; Madeleine, Jean-Baptiste; Sultan, Emmanuelle; Forget, François

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-5731-2021

Articles | Volume 13, issue 12

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-5731-2021

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

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-5731-2021

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

Articles | Volume 13, issue 12

Data description paper

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10 Dec 2021

Data description paper |

| 10 Dec 2021

10 years of temperature and wind observation on a 45 m tower at Dome C, East Antarctic plateau

Christophe Genthon, Dana Veron, Etienne Vignon, Delphine Six, Jean-Louis Dufresne, Jean-Baptiste Madeleine, Emmanuelle Sultan, and François Forget

Data sets

Ten years of shielded ventilated atmospheric temperature observation on a 45-m tower at Dome C, East Antarctic plateau C. Genthon, D. Veron, E. Vignon, D. Six, J.-L. Dufresnes, E. Sultan, and F. Forget https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.932512

Ten years of wind speed observation on a 45-m tower at Dome C, East Antarctic plateau C. Genthon, D. Veron, E. Vignon, D. Six, J.-L. Dufresnes, E. Sultan, and F. Forget https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.932513

Short summary

A 10-year dataset of observation in the atmospheric boundary layer at Dome C on the high Antarctic plateau is presented. This is obtained with sensors at six levels along a tower higher than 40 m. The temperature inversion can reach more than 25 °C along the tower in winter, while full mixing by convection can occur in summer. Different amplitudes of variability for wind and temperature at the different levels reflect different signatures of solar vs. synoptic forcing of the boundary layer.