ERA5, CARRA and MODIS subsets and flight-leg table for evaluating sensible heat flux over Arctic sea ice (BACSAM-II, April 2024)
Year: 2026
Type: dataset
Abstract: Input data for the analysis code of Müller et al. (submitted to AMT). The paper evaluates sensible heat flux estimates over Arctic sea ice, driven by reanalysis and satellite data, against airborne eddy-covariance measurements of the towed T-Bird below the research aircraft Polar 6 (BACSAM-II, Svalbard, 13–23 April 2024). The record holds regional subsets of ERA5 and CARRA, the MODIS/Aqua daily ice surface temperature, the merged MODIS–AMSR2 sea-ice concentration, the NASA GIBS images used in Fig. 5, and the table of straight flight legs. With the measurements on PANGAEA (doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.995979) and the code (github.com/FranzFlink/bacsam2-flux-analysis), these files reproduce every number, table and figure of the paper. The code downloads them and checks the SHA-256 checksums in SHA256SUMS.txt. Third-party data remain under the terms of their providers (Copernicus C3S, NASA, University of Bremen); the leg table is released under CC BY 4.0. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information (2026).
Author: Müller, Joshua Jeremias
Institution: Leipzig University
Language: English
Subfield: Atmospheric Science
Field: Earth and Planetary Sciences
Domain: Physical Sciences
SDG: Climate action
Open Access status: green
Funder: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
OpenAlex ID: W7224100917