Upper-air measurements at King George Island, Antarctica

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Dataset description summary: the dataset presented here contains sounding measurements collected at King George Island, Antarctica (58.96°W, 62.20°S) during the Colombian scientific expedition to Antarctica, 2020 and 2022 campaigns using a Vaisala DigiCORA MW41 Sounding System. The observations were carried out between 20th January and 25th January 2020, and 14th February and 6th March 2022, launching twice-daily soundings (00 UTC and 12 UTC)during regular days, and 4 soundings per day (00 UTC, 06 UTC, 12 UTC and 18 UTC) during Intensive Observing Periods (IOPs), for a total of 53 soundings.

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Mauricio Jiménez García, Colombian Air Force, Bogota, Colombia https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3231-3218 John F. Mejia, Desert Research Institute, Reno, Nevada https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6727-5541