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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Temporal Range

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

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Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 1980-01-08
Temporal Range End 1996-12-31
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat N/A
Bounding Box South Lat N/A
Bounding Box West Long N/A
Bounding Box East Long N/A
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
Binary
Standardized Resource Format ASCII
Binary
Asset Size 403.345 MB
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Software Implementation Language N/A

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Author Antarctic Meteorological Research Center, Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Publisher NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research
Publication Date 1992-09-30
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.5065/DE6N-G257
Alternate Identifier d473000
Resource Version N/A
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2025-10-09T01:25:03Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.gdex::d473000
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. NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research. https://doi.org/10.5065/DE6N-G257. Accessed 12 October 2025.

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