Mission: SOUTHWAVE
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Description

Full mission name: SOUTHWAVE

Description:

The goal of this campaign is to undertake high-resolution soundings of mountain waves in the worlds' gravity wave hot spot region in Tierra del Fuego. The CORAL lidar was deployed to EARG station in Rio Grande, Argentina in November 2017. This is in direct vicinity to the SAAMER meteor radar and further instrumentation for mesospheric soundings. The SOUTHWAVE campaign is supported by project PD-206 by the Helmholtz association and the ARISE2 project of the H2020 programme of the European Union. Combined measurements with HALO aircraft soundings during the SouthTRAC campaign in autumn 2019 were also undertaken.

Realtime weather forecasts and instrument status is available at https://www.kaifler.net/coral. A measurement calender and instrument and campaign descriptions are available at http://extern05.pa.op.dlr.de/coral/.

Below you find datasets as supplements to the publications:

• High cadence lidar observations of middle atmospheric temperature and gravity waves above Tierra del Fuego by Reichert et al., submitted November 2020

• Lidar observations of large-amplitude mountain waves in the stratosphere above Tierra del Fuego, Argentina by Kaifler et al., Scientific Reports, 2020

Datasets for the publication

• Temperature profiles from two close lidars and a satellite to infer the structure of a dominant gravity wave by Alexander et al., Earth and Space Science, 2020

are found here.

Map of the measuring area

Data Protocol

No Data Protocol available.

Mission Info

• Start: 2017-11-24
• Stop: 2025-12-31
• Region:
  • South America › Argentina
• Begin free data access: 2018-12-31
• Website: extern05.pa.op.dlr.de/coral/

Data Origin

Genesis of the data (see glossary).

Instruments

1. Platform HALO
   • Instrument not specified.
2. Platform Groundbased Lidar
   • Instrument CORAL

Models

1. Model type GCM
   • Model ECMWF IFS

Available datasets