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Alert
Location: 82.5017 N, 62.3297 W, 210 m asl (689 ft asl)
Alert is located at 82N so a webcam image of the North Pole is relatively representative of conditions at Alert (webcam from NOAA)
Governing Institution: Environment Canada, Atmospheric Environment Service
Station Contacts: Andrew Platt (andrew.platt@ec.gc.ca); Marjorie Shepherd (Marjorie.Sherpherd@ec.gc.ca)
Main Web site: There is no main web site for Alert, but informational web sites and data web sites are listed below the measurements table.
Alert Facilities: The Meteorological Service of Canada (MSC) weather station is collocated with the Canadian Forces Station (CFS) installation, while the Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW) station is about 6 km to the SSW.
Station Mission/Purpose: At 82.5º North, at the northeastern tip of Ellesmere Island, Alert is well-positioned to sample the background chemistry of the Arctic. Regular launches of meteorological and ozone radionsondes make Alert an important station among the IASOA stations.
Site News:
| Topography and History: Military listening post...last stepping stone to the North Pole...weather station...Global Atmosphere Watch station...place-holder for the northern realm of the Canadian sovereignty...Alert, Nunavut, Canada, just ~ 450 nm from the North Pole, has been all of these. Alert is a military base (Canadian Forces Station), with no town or local residents associated with it. |
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Table of Measurements
Station Identifier: 71082
Station Abbreviations: YLT, ALT, ALE, and STN18
Alert Global Atmosphere Watch - Station Information System (GAWSIS)
Data archives:
NOAA/ESRL/GMD Data site
Integrated Global Radiosonde Archive (IGRA)
Informational links:
Global Atmospheric Watch (GAW) - Alert Station Page
NOAA/ESRL/GMD station description and list of measurements
NOAA/ESRL/GMD
NOAA Aerosol Sampling
Alert, Nunavut current weather
Canadian Forces Station - Alert
Wikipedia
Canadian Ozone and Ultraviolet Measurement Program
All information on this page was gathered from the web sites listed above. We welcome your comments - if you have any additions or corrections that apply to this page, please forward them to lisa.darby@noaa.gov.
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