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Articles | Volume 17, issue 10
Articles | Volume 17, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-5303-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-5303-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 17, issue 10
Data description paper
 | 
13 Oct 2025
Data description paper |  | 13 Oct 2025

The complete 3-year dataset of 4STAR sky-scans from ORACLES 2016–2018

Logan T. Mitchell, Connor J. Flynn, Kristina Pistone, Samuel E. LeBlanc, K. Sebastian Schmidt, and Jens Redemann

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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-5303-2025-supplement

Data sets

ORACLES 2016-2018 4STAR Dataset, Version 4 Logan Mitchell https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16933793

Suite of Aerosol, Cloud, and Related Data Acquired Aboard P3 During ORACLES 2016, Version 3 ORACLES Science Team https://doi.org/10.5067/Suborbital/ORACLES/P3/2016_V3

Suite of Aerosol, Cloud, and Related Data Acquired Aboard P3 During ORACLES 2017, Version 3 ORACLES Science Team https://doi.org/10.5067/Suborbital/ORACLES/P3/2017_V3

Suite of Aerosol, Cloud, and Related Data Acquired Aboard P3 During ORACLES 2018, Version 3 ORACLES Science Team https://doi.org/10.5067/Suborbital/ORACLES/P3/2018_V3

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Short summary
During 2016–2018, NASA conducted an airborne field campaign over the Southeast Atlantic Ocean to study biomass burning aerosols emitted from Southern African fires. These aerosols then interact with stratocumulus clouds over the Southeast Atlantic, which is difficult for climate models to account for. Our instrument, 4STAR, determines aerosol radiative properties. A dataset was already created for 2016, but additional quality control was required to address instrument issues for 2017 and 2018.
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