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NSIDC Daily Precipitation Sums 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. Please properly cite this data by referring to ' DS DOCUMENTATION'.


PERIODS: 1936-01-01 to 1990-12-31
VARIABLES:
Precipitation Amount
TYPES: Platform Observation
COVERAGE: See the detailed metadata for coverage information
SOURCES: NSIDC
National Snow and Ice Data Center
RU/AARI
Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, Russia
RELATED SITES: National Snow and Ice Data Center
PUBLICATIONS: Recommended acknowledgement for this dataset:
"The data for this study are from the Research Data Archive (RDA) which is maintained by the Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). NCAR is sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The original data are available from the RDA (http://dss.ucar.edu) in dataset number ds488.0."
VOLUME: 16.94 MBytes
DATA FORMATS: ASCII (see dataset documentation)
RELATED DATASETS: ds489.0 - NSIDC Meteorological Data from the Russian Arctic, 1961-2000
ds524.0 - Russian Summary of Day, 1881-1989
ds577.5 - NCDC's TD3720 USSR Monthly Precipitation For 622 Stations 1891-1999

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