Evaporation from the Southern Ocean estimated on the basis of AIRS satellite data

Autonomous sea ice mass balance buoy data on air temperature, humidity, and wind speed from 15 January 2016 to 1 March 2017 were obtained from http://www.meereisportal.de (grant: REKLIM‐2013‐04). AIRS data can be obtained at airs.jpl.nasa.gov. MERRA‐2 data can be obtained from https://gmao.gsfc.nasa.gov/reanalysis/MERRA‐2/data_access/. Ice concentration can be obtained from www.nsidc.org. The work of Linette Boisvert was funded by NASA GSFC Cryospheric Science Lab. The work of Timo Vihma was funded by the Academy of Finland (contract 304345).Chung‐Lin Shie is a research faculty member at the Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology (JCET).