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Automatic Weather Station 10 minute Observation data for Antarctica, Greenland, and Peru
Entry ID: SSEC-AWS-AWS_10minute

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Summary

Abstract: The AWS Project involves collecting meteorological data from an array of Automatic Weather Stations in Antarctica, Greenland, and Peru. This data is freely available on our ftp site in a couple of different formats for our clients. Though this data is free for use, we do ask that you acknowledge our Project in any published work within which you use the data. We receive our grants via NSF's Office of Polar Programs.

We have data for Antarctica dating back to 1980, Greenland back to 1987, and Peru back to 1992. The data can be found in both raw and "corrected" formats; more information about this data and the specific locations of our stations can be found in the files "readme.faq" and "biglist" on our ftp site. The raw data is much easier to produce and is run monthly within 7-10 days of the first of the month for the previous months data.

Our data is in a tabular ASCII text format, easily ingestible into programs or spreadsheets alike. For more information, please contact us at aws@ice.ssec.wisc.edu.

AWS station data is located via anonymous FTP at

"ftp://ice.ssec.wisc.edu/pub/"

and WWW:

"http://amrc.ssec.wisc.edu/aws.html"

Related URL

Link: GET DATA
Description: Access data.

Link: VIEW RELATED INFORMATION
Description: NSF Award #0944018 Abstract

Link: VIEW RELATED INFORMATION
Description: NSF Award #0636873 Abstract

Geographic Coverage

N: -61.0 S: -90.0 E: 180.0 W: -180.0

N: -0.0 S: -18.0 E: -68.0 W: -82.0

N: 85.0 S: 60.0 E: -19.0 W: -71.0

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 1980-01-01

Location Keywords

CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > GREENLAND
CONTINENT > SOUTH AMERICA > PERU
CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA
GEOGRAPHIC REGION > ARCTIC
GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR

ISO Topic Category

CLIMATOLOGY/METEOROLOGY/ATMOSPHERE
GEOSCIENTIFIC INFORMATION
INLAND WATERS

Platform

FIXED OBSERVATION STATIONS [Information]

Instrument

ADG >Acoustic Depth Gauge    [Information]

ANEMOMETERS    [Information]

BAROMETERS    [Information]

HUMIDITY SENSORS    [Information]

SNOWPACK TEMPERATURE PROBE    [Information]

TEMPERATURE SENSORS    [Information]

THERMISTORS    [Information]

ARGOS >ARGOS Data Collection and Position Location System    [Information]

Project

NSF/OPP >Office of Polar Programs, National Science Foundation [Information]

Quality

The ten-minute data is provided as is. Little effort was made to correct the data from the raw information retrieved from the weather stations. The data is readily available due to the minimal pre-processing.

Access Constraints

None

Use Constraints

None - the only request is that the Automatic Weather Station project,
Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison
be given credit as the source of the data.

Keywords

10 MINUTE

ANTARCTICA

AUTOMATIC WEATHER STATION

AWS

Data Set Progress

IN WORK

Data Center

Antarctic Meteorological Research Center, Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison [Information]
Data Center URL: http://amrc.ssec.wisc.edu/
Dataset ID: AWS 10 minute data

Data Center Personnel

Name: MATTHEW A. LAZZARA
Phone: (608) 262-0436
Fax: (608) 263-6738
Email: amrc at ssec.wisc.edu
Email: mattl at ssec.wisc.edu
Contact Address:
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Antarctic Meteorological Research Center
Space Science and Engineering Center
901 Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Science Building
1225 West Dayton Street
City: Madison
Province or State: WI
Postal Code: 53706
Country: USA

Distribution

Distribution_Media: FTP
Distribution_Size: Various
Distribution_Format: ASCII Text
Fees: Free

Personnel

MATTHEW A. LAZZARA
Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Phone: (608) 262-0436
Fax: (608) 263-6738
Email: amrc at ssec.wisc.edu
Email: mattl at ssec.wisc.edu
Contact Address:
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Antarctic Meteorological Research Center
Space Science and Engineering Center
901 Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Science Building
1225 West Dayton Street
City: Madison
Province or State: WI
Postal Code: 53706
Country: USA

JOEY R SNARSKI
Role: DIF AUTHOR
Email: joey.snarski at ssec.wisc.edu
Contact Address:
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Space Science and Engineering Center
Antarctic Meteorological Research Center
947 Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Science Building
1225 West Dayton Street
City: Madison
Province or State: WI
Postal Code: 53706
Country: USA

Creation and Review Dates

DIF Creation Date: 2007-06-28

Last DIF Revision Date: 2012-07-25

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