NSIDC Daily Precipitation Totals at Coastal and Island Russian Arctic Stations, 1940-1990

"This data set contains precipitation data originally recorded in log books at 65 coastal and island meteorological stations, and later digitized at the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI), St. Petersburg, Russia, under the direction of Vladimir Radionov. Records from most stations begin in 1940. Instrumentation was generally a rain gauge with Nipher shield until the early 1950s (for most stations), when the Tretyakov precipitation gauge replaced earlier instrumentation. Data have not been adjusted for gauge type or wind bias. Data from 1967 and later are corrected for wetting loss (this correction was made by observers as they recorded the station data).", quoted summary from NSIDC documentation.

The data files and associated documentation were downloaded from NSIDC to this DSS dataset in January 2007. See the dataset documentation [http://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds488.0/#!docs] for more information.

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  1936-01-01
    End:  1990-12-31

Keywords

Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 1936-01-01
Temporal Range End 1990-12-31
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat 81
Bounding Box South Lat 43
Bounding Box West Long -180
Bounding Box East Long 180
Spatial Representation N/A
Spatial Resolution N/A
Related Links

Related Resource #1 : National Snow and Ice Data Center
Additional Information N/A
Resource Format ASCII
Standardized Resource Format ASCII
Asset Size 16.00 MB
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Access Constraints None
Software Implementation Language N/A

Resource Support Name Bob Dattore
Resource Support Email dattore@ucar.edu
Resource Support Organization UCAR/NCAR - Research Data Archive
Distributor NCAR Research Data Archive
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Metadata Contact Email rdahelp@ucar.edu
Metadata Contact Organization NCAR Research Data Archive

Author NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center
/FSR/HME/AARI
Publisher Research Data Archive at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory
Publication Date 2007-01-16
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.5065/FXCA-1635
Alternate Identifier d488000
Resource Version N/A
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2024-08-04T02:11:07Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.rda::d488000
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center, /FSR/HME/AARI. (2007). NSIDC Daily Precipitation Totals at Coastal and Island Russian Arctic Stations, 1940-1990. Research Data Archive at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.5065/FXCA-1635. Accessed 20 August 2025.

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