University of Wisconsin Antarctic Surface Observations

This dataset contains daily surface observations from polar automatic weather stations on Antarctica from January 1980. Observations are available every 3 hours and include surface pressure, air temperature, humidity and wind speed and direction.

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Questions? Email Resource Support Contact:

  • Chi-Fan Shih
    chifan@ucar.edu
    UCAR/NCAR - Research Data Archive

Temporal Range

  • Begin:  1980-01-08
    End:  1996-12-31

Keywords

Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 1980-01-08
Temporal Range End 1996-12-31
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat -64
Bounding Box South Lat -90
Bounding Box West Long -180
Bounding Box East Long 180
Spatial Representation N/A
Spatial Resolution N/A
Related Links

Related Resource #1 : University of Wisconsin, The Antarctic Meteorological Research Center (AMRC) and Automatic Weather Station (AWS) program

Additional Information N/A
Resource Format ASCII
Standardized Resource Format ASCII
Asset Size 403.00 MB
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Access Constraints Registration on the RDA web site is a requirement for access to the data.
Software Implementation Language N/A

Resource Support Name Chi-Fan Shih
Resource Support Email chifan@ucar.edu
Resource Support Organization UCAR/NCAR - Research Data Archive
Distributor NCAR Research Data Archive
Metadata Contact Name N/A
Metadata Contact Email rdahelp@ucar.edu
Metadata Contact Organization NCAR Research Data Archive

Author Antarctic Meteorological Research Center, Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Publisher Research Data Archive at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory
Publication Date 1992-09-30
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.5065/DE6N-G257
Alternate Identifier ds473.0
Resource Version N/A
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2024-01-03T15:11:42-07:00
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.rda::ds473.0
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation Antarctic Meteorological Research Center, Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison. (1992). University of Wisconsin Antarctic Surface Observations. Research Data Archive at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.5065/DE6N-G257. Accessed 29 March 2024.

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