Continuous monitoring of surface water vapour isotopic compositions at Neumayer Station III, East Antarctica

Bagheri Dastgerdi, Saeid; Behrens, Melanie; Bonne, Jean-Louis; Hörhold, Maria; Lohmann, Gerrit; Schlosser, Elisabeth; Werner, Martin

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-4745-2021

Articles | Volume 15, issue 10

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-4745-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-4745-2021

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

Articles | Volume 15, issue 10

Research article

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11 Oct 2021

Research article |

| 11 Oct 2021

Continuous monitoring of surface water vapour isotopic compositions at Neumayer Station III, East Antarctica

Saeid Bagheri Dastgerdi, Melanie Behrens, Jean-Louis Bonne, Maria Hörhold, Gerrit Lohmann, Elisabeth Schlosser, and Martin Werner

Data sets

Basic and other measurements, and meteorological synoptical observations from Neumayer Station, 1992-04 to 2016-01, reference list of 572 datasets G. König-Langlo https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.874984

Continuous meteorological observations at Neumayer Station (2010-2018), reference list of 108 datasets H. Schmithüsen, G. König-Langlo, H. Müller, and H. Schulz https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.908826

Short summary

In this study, for the first time, water vapour isotope measurements in Antarctica for all seasons of a year are performed. Local temperature is identified as the main driver of δ¹⁸O and δD variability. A similar slope of the temperature–δ¹⁸O relationship in vapour and surface snow points to the water vapour isotope content as a potential key driver. This dataset can be used as a new dataset to evaluate the capability of isotope-enhanced climate models.