NYTEFOX – The NY-Ålesund TurbulencE Fiber Optic eXperiment investigating the Arctic boundary layer, Svalbard

Abstract

Abstract. The NY-Alesund TurbulencE Fiber Optic eXperiment, NYTEFOX, was a field experiment at the Arctic site Ny-Alesund (11.9° E, 78.9° N) and yielded a unique meteorological data set. These data describe the distribution of heat, airflows, and exchange in the Arctic boundary layer for a period of 14 days from 26 February to 10 March 2020. NYTEFOX is the first field experiment to investigate the heterogeneity of airflow and its transport in temperatures, wind, and kinetic energy in the Arctic environment using the Fiber-Optic Distributed Sensing (FODS) technique for horizontal and vertical observations. FODS air temperature and wind speed were observed at a spatial resolution of 0.127 m and 9 s in time along a horizontal array of 700 m at 1 m height above ground level (agl) and along three 7 m vertical profiles. Ancillary data were collected from three sonic anemometers and an acoustic profiler (miniSodar, SOund Detection And Ranging) yielding turbulent flow statistics and vertical profiles in the lowest 300 m agl, respectively. The observations from this field campaign are publicly available on Zenodo ( https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4335461 ) and supplement the data set operationally collected by the Basic Surface Radiation Network (BSRN) meteorological data set at Ny-Alesund, Svalbard.