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Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program
IASOA Stations
Barrow
Eureka
Variables Included
- Air temperature
- Dew point
- RH
- Wind speed
- Wind direction
- Visibility
- Station pressure
The data is provided to the public free of charge. You must register with the ARM Climate Research Facility (ACRF) and will supply your e-mail address to access the data.
Baseline Surface Radiation Network (BSRN)
IASOA Stations
Alert
Barrow
Ny-Alesund
Summit
Tiksi (pending)
Variables Included
- Air temperature (2m and 10m)
- Air temperature maximum
- Air temperature minimum
- Barometric tendancy and characteristic
- Amount of cloud layers 1, 2, and 3
- Cloud base height
- Cloud layers 1, 3, and 3
- Dewpoint
- Visibility
- RH
- Past and present blowing snow
- Past weather1 and 2
- Current weather
- Station pressure
- Surface pressure
- Whiteout yes/no
- Wind direction (2m and 10m)
- Wind speed (2m and 10m)
Data is available by ftp access through the World Radiation Monitoring Center - BSRN (WRMC-BSRN). To gain access to the ftp server, an e-mail request must be sent to Gert Konig-Langlo (Gert.Koenig-Langlo@awi.de) describing the research project for which data will be used. The data release guidelines from the WRMC-BSRN must be followed by those who download data. Observations are available for varying dates depending upon the station of interest.
Cooperative Arctic Data and Information Service (CADIS) of the AON
IASOA Stations
Barrow (link to data access)
Eureka
Ny-Ålesund
Summit (link to data access)
Variables Included
Click on the links above to direct your browser to data access locations. Go to the Summit link to access AWS (1993-2000), snow accumulation (1990-2008), and fog data (1993 and 1996) for Summit, Greenland. The Barrow link contains hourly climate data for both Barrow and Atqasuk from 1998-2008. For an extensive list of all data archives at CADIS go to http://www.aoncadis.org/aon_ds/Current_AON_Dataset_Listing.html.
Global Monitoring Division (GMD) Data Archive
IASOA Stations
Barrow
Variables Included
- Air temperature (2m, 10m, and tower top)
- Wind speed (2m, 10m, and tower top)
- Wind directin (2m, 10m, and tower top)
- Station pressure
- RH at 2m
- Precipitation
Click on 'Station Meteorology' from the GMD Data Archive site, the folder labeled 'BRW' contains the Barrow data.
National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center - Interactive Snow Information (NOAA)
IASOA Stations (with station SHEF ID)
Barrow PABR
Barrow BROA2
Atqasuk MDEA2
Variables Included
- Snow water equivalent
- Snow depth
- Snow cover
- Snow Melt
- Precipitation
- Cumulative precipitation
- Snow pack temperature
- Density by layer
- Snow surface
- Mean snow pack
- Air temperature
- Sublimation
- Weather forcing
- Snow surface energy exchanges
- Snow surface radiation fluxes
Hourly plots are available from 2002-present of snow characteristics at two stations in Barrow (PABR and BROA2) and one near Atqasuk (MDEA2). Click on the link for each station ID to access the individual site's snow data.
University of Wyoming's Weather Web
IASOA Stations (with station ID)
Alert YLT
Barrow PABR (Point Barrow), PATQ (Atqasuk)
Eureka WEU
Tiksi UEST
Variables Included
- Air temperature (F)
- Dew point (F)
- Mean sea level pressure
- Altimeter in Hg
- RH
- Wind direction
- Wind speed
- Wind gusts
- Visibility
- Cloud cover
- Weather
- 12hr minimum temperature (F)
- 12hr maximum temperature (F)
- Precipitation
From the surface observations link, go to 'North Pole' under region and type in the station's ID. Data is hourly from the past month.
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