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Abisko Scientific Research Station
IASOA Stations
Abisko
Variables Included
- Air temperature
- Station pressure
- Precipitation
- Wind speed
- Wind direction
- Air humidity
Requests for data access must be sent to the webmaster at annika.kristoffersson@ans.kiruna.se.
University of Alaska Fairbanks/Arctic Observatory Network (AON)
IASOA Stations
Abisko
Barrow
Cherskii
Ny-Ålesund
Variables Included
- Air temperature
- Precipitation
- Wind direction
- Wind speed
- RH
- Pressure
Includes daily, weekly, and monthly plots of surface meteorological variables for the Cherskii site. These data are under the 'Pleistocene Park' tab.
Arctic Research Centre of Finnish Meteorological Institute
IASOA Stations
Pallas and Sodankylä
Variables Included
- RH
- Air temperature
- Total cloudiness
- Dewpoint
- Wetbulb temperature
- Visibility
- Sea level pressure
- Present weather
- Past weather
- Amount of lowest clouds
- Lowest cloud height
- Type of middle and high clouds
- Wind direction
- Wind speed
- State of the ground
- Precipitation (6hr, 12hr, or 24hr totals)
Go to the Arctic Research Centre's website and click on 'Synop Data'. From there, followe the 'Synop observations/AWS' link to surface meteorological observations dating from October, 2006. 'Maws data' includes snow depth observations from 2007-2009 and 'SMS data' to 'SMS Aws' has further automatic weather station measurements from 2007-2009. Historical synoptic observations can be acquired by e-mailing a data request to Pauli.Heikkinen@fmi.fi.
Canadian Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Change (CANDAC)
IASOA Stations
Eureka (PEARL weather station)
Variables Included
- Air temperature
- Station pressure
- Wind speed
- Max. 10min. wind speed
- Wind direction
- Precipitation
The CANDAC link and the precipitation link go to a page with current surface meteorological conditions at Eureka.
Cooperative Arctic Data and Information Service (CADIS) of the AON
IASOA Stations
Barrow
Eureka
Ny-Ålesund
Summit
Variables Included
- Air temperature (Barrow, Summit)
- Cloud occurence and layering (Atqasuk and Barrow, Eureka, Ny-Ålesund, Summit)
- Wind direction (Summit)
- Wind speed (Barrow, Summit)
- Snow accumulation (Summit)
- Current weather (Summit)
- Fog (Summit)
- Visibility (Summit)
- Precipitation (Barrow)
- Light intensity (Barrow)
- NCEP ADP Global Surface Observations (February 1975-present)
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.
Environment Canada's National Climate Data and Information Archive
IASOA Stations
Alert
Eureka
Variables Included
- Air temperature (C) (climatological max. and min.)
- Dew point (C)
- RH
- Wind direction
- Wind speed
- Visibility
- Station pressure
- Precipitation
- Snow depth
- Humidity index
- Wind chill
- Weather
Canadian Daily Climate Data (CDCD) - ftp site that houses one large file for download free of charge, includes daily temperature, precipitation, and snow on the ground, software to access the data is provided within the .zip file
Climate Data Online - contains hourly data for each day in a tabular format
Almanac Data - daily climate data including maxima and minima
Climate Normals and Averages - information about climate and extremes
Climate Summary - entirety of Canada monthly climate summaries
Rainfall Intensity-Duration-Frequency (IDF) files - ftp site containing .zip files for download, NU.zip includes the Alert and Eureka stations
Global Monitoring Division (GMD) Data Archive
IASOA Stations
Barrow
Summit
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 and the folder labeled 'SUM' has the Summit data.
Greenland Climate Monitoring Network (GC-Net)
IASOA Stations
Summit
Variables Included
- Air temperature
- Wind speed
- Wind direction
- Snow height
- Snow temperature
- Peak wind speed
After going to the GC-Net link, fill in the form at the bottom of the page with your data request making sure to check the 'Summit' box when prompted to choose a station. You will be e-mailed a ftp site to access the information you requested.
National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center - Interactive Snow Information (NOAA)
IASOA Stations (with station SHEF ID)
Barrow PABR (Post Rogers Memorial Airport)
Barrow BROA2 (Barrow ENE)
Atqasuk MDEA2 (Meade River at Atqasuk)
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.
Roshydromet - Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) (Use Google Translate to see the page in English)
IASOA Stations
Tiksi
Variables Included
- Air temperature (C)
- Daily maximum temperature (C)
- Daily minimum temperature (C)
- RH
- Total and low cloudiness
- Visibility
- Precipitation
- Surface air pressure
- Wind direction
- Wind speed
- Snow thickness
- Surface state
From the AARI link, go to 'Historical Data' located on the left-hand menu. Historical surface meteorological data from 1932-present is under 'Archive of observations at Tiksi'.
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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