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University of Wisconsin Greenland Surface Observations, daily 1987-1998Jun

This dataset contains daily surface observations from polar automatic weather stations on Greenland for January 1987 to October 1991. Observations are reported every 3 hours and are archived for 8 stations.

Data for 18 automatic weather stations in Greenland are available starting in 1999 from the Greenland Climate Network

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PERIODS:

1987 to 1988-06

VARIABLES:

Air Temperature

Humidity

Surface Pressure

Surface Winds

LEVELS:

Ground or water surface

TIMES:

Every 3 hours

TYPES:

Platform Observation

COVERAGE:

SOURCES:

UWI-MAD/AOS

Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison

PUBLICATIONS:

Stearns, C.R., and G.A. Weidner, 1991: The polar automatic weather station project of the University of Wisconsin. Proceedings of the Int. Conf. on the Role of the Polar Regions in Global Change, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK, 58-62.

VOLUME:

35.00 MBytes

FORMATS:

ASCII (see dataset documentation), Binary (see dataset documentation)

CONTACT:

For assistance with this dataset, please contact Joey Comeaux (303-497-1256) . If the specialist is unavailable, please contact Data Help.

RELATED DATASETS:

ds464.1 - NMC ADP Global Surface Observations Subsets

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