North Pole Environmental Observatory (NPEO) Weather and Radiation Buoy Data

This data set includes in situ air pressure, wind, temperature, longwave radiation, and shortwave radiation measurements. Data were recorded from 27 April 2002 by weather stations and radiometers on drifting buoys near the North Pole that were deployed by the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL). A lack of solar energy, which is needed to power the radiometer batteries, rendered some data useless after mid-to-late September. The North Pole Environmental Observatory (NPEO) is a year-round, automated scientific observatory, deploying various instruments each April in order to learn how the world's northernmost sea helps regulate global climate. It consists of a set of unmanned scientific platforms that record oceanographic, cryospheric, and atmospheric data throughout the year. Data are in ASCII text format.

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  2002-04-27T00:00:00Z
    End:  2009-11-20T23:59:59Z

Keywords

Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 2002-04-27T00:00:00Z
Temporal Range End 2009-11-20T23:59:59Z
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat 89.16800
Bounding Box South Lat 67.27600
Bounding Box West Long -26.13100
Bounding Box East Long 76.47600
Spatial Representation grid
Spatial Resolution N/A
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Documentation #1 : index.html

Documentation #2 : NPEO_Weather_and_Radiation_Buoy_readme.txt
Additional Information N/A
Resource Format ZIP: PKZIP (application/zip)
Standardized Resource Format Archive
Asset Size 1 MB
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Resource Support Name EOL Data Support
Resource Support Email datahelp@eol.ucar.edu
Resource Support Organization NSF NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory
Distributor NSF NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory
Metadata Contact Name EOL Data Support
Metadata Contact Email datahelp@eol.ucar.edu
Metadata Contact Organization NSF NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory

Author James H. Morison ORCID icon
Dr. Knut Aagaard ORCID icon
Richard Moritz
Miles McPhee
Andreas Heiberg
Michael Steele ORCID icon
Roger Andersen ORCID icon
Publisher NSF NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory
Publication Date 2010-07-12T14:33:38
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) Not Assigned
Alternate Identifier 106.ARCSS127
Resource Version 1.0
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2025-08-01T18:02:06Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.eol::106.ARCSS127
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation James H. Morison, Dr. Knut Aagaard, Richard Moritz, Miles McPhee, Andreas Heiberg, Michael Steele, Roger Andersen. (2010). North Pole Environmental Observatory (NPEO) Weather and Radiation Buoy Data. 1.0. NSF NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory. https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/106.ARCSS127. Accessed 22 January 2026.

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