Tethered balloon-borne measurements to characterise the evolution of the Arctic atmospheric boundary layer at the Villum Research Station

Dorff, Henning; Siebert, Holger; Navale, Komal; Ehrlich, André; Müller, Joshua; Schäfer, Michael; Wu, Fan; Wendisch, Manfred

doi:10.5194/essd-18-2799-2026

Articles | Volume 18, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2799-2026

© Author(s) 2026. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2799-2026

© Author(s) 2026. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 18, issue 4

Data description article

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21 Apr 2026

Data description article |

| 21 Apr 2026

Tethered balloon-borne measurements to characterise the evolution of the Arctic atmospheric boundary layer at the Villum Research Station

Henning Dorff, Holger Siebert, Komal Navale, André Ehrlich, Joshua Müller, Michael Schäfer, Fan Wu, and Manfred Wendisch

Data sets

Balloon-borne profile L2-data characterising the Arctic boundary layer and troposphere at Villum Research Station H. Dorff et al. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.986431

CARRA reanalysis height-level data at Station Nord for balloon-borne (BELUGA) campaign (March, April 2024) H. Dorff https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17660389

Arctic regional reanalysis on height levels from 1991 to present H. Schyberg et al. https://doi.org/10.24381/CDS.8679900D

Model code and software

Processing code for balloon-borne measurement data collected at the Villum Research Station (Station Nord, Greenland) during spring 2024 (24 March 2024 to 12 April 2024) H. Dorff et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18763860

Short summary

We present tethered-balloon measurements from BELUGA (Balloon-bornE moduLar Utility for profilinG the lower Atmosphere) at Villum Research Station (spring 2024), detailing instrumentation, data processing, and environmental conditions. The data stored in the PANGAEA database include instrument-separated subsets with frequent in situ profiling of thermodynamic, turbulence conditions, and thermal-infrared irradiances across the Arctic atmospheric boundary layer (ABL), supplemented by radiosondes. The data help examine transition events between Arctic ABL states.