Macquarie Island meteorological data at 30 minutes resolution from 2016-11-19 to 2018-03-14

The air is free of dust and pollution, and the surface is governed by strong winds, large waves and heavy sea spray. These conditions lead to the greatest fractional cloud cover over any place on the globe.

Much of these biases are a direct consequence of a poor understanding of the structure and dynamics of the SO atmospheric boundary layer, which in turn is a consequence of the sparse observations being available due to the harsh conditions. This proposals call for employing unmanned aerial vehicles/systems from Macquarie Island to make unprecedented observations of the boundary layer processes over the SO. These observations will be used to both model the boundary layer dynamics and clouds and evaluate satellite products and numerical simulations of surface fluxes, cloud properties and sea spray.