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Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station Annual Climate Data 40-year Climatology
MMMCLIM.DAT Monthly files containing daily extremes and averages for temperature, wind, sunshine, cloud cover and pressure from 1957-1997. -
Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station Monthly Climate Summary
MmmSum.mgr (2003-present) Monthly summaries of high/low values for temperature, wind, station pressure, physio-altitude, sky cover, sunshine, visibility, snowfall, balloon flights, and monthly records. -
Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station Preliminary Local Climatological Data
MmmLoc.xlsx (2003-present) Lists daily maximum, minimum, and averages for temperature, precipitation, wind speed and direction, peak wind speed and direction for the day, sunshine hours, sky cover, station pressure, and weather -
Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station Climatological Report
NZSP_Report_YYYY-MM.pdf (2010-present) Annual report on the average and extreme values for temperature, pressure, physiological altitude, visibility and wind as well as records. Other notes related to the data, instrumentation and South Pole office are included. -
Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station Annual Climate Summaries
AnnualClimSumYY.txt (2022-present) Annual summaries of high and low values for temperature, wind, station pressure, physio-altitude, sky cover, sunshine, visibility, balloon flights and annual records. -
Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station Annual Weather Summaries
AnnualWeatherSumYY.docx (2022-present) A text document with a written summary of each month throughout the year noting any particular monthly records, trends, and general overview of the month’s weather -
Palmer Station Automated Tide Data System, 1993-present (ongoing).
Each data file follows the naming convention YYMMDDTHHMMSS.txt where YY = Year MM = Month DD = Day T = Tide HH = Hour (UTC) MM = Minute SS = Second There are few times over the history of this data where order of the columns change. These correspond with when instruments were changed out for the... -
Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station Runway Observations
File name convention: NZSPMMYY.txt (2001-present), NZIRMMYY.txt (2002-2003) The column labels are: Day Time Temperature (Temp;DegC) Pressure (Pres; mb) Altimeter (Alt;inHg) Sea level pressure (Sea;mb) Wind speed (Speed;kts) Wind direction (Dir;T) Wind gust (Gust;kts) Peak wind (Peak;kts) Minimum... -
Palmer Station Waterwall data, 2016-present (ongoing).
These data should not be used for scientific analyses. The pump system that carries seawater to the waterwall instrument has had multiple intakes at different depths which can cause unexpected variations in the data that are not representative of the environment. These issues are under evaluation... -
Automatic Weather Station climat surface messages, 2006 - present (ongoing).
These files are CLIMAT surface messages, created from a subset of AWS sites from the UW-Madison AWS network. The filenames are named [III]-[YYYY]-[MM].txt, where III is the three-letter code to indicate the station, YYYY is the year, and MM is the month. These files are formatted per the World... -
Palmer Station climatology summary data, 1989-present (ongoing).
For the period 1999 on, summaries were checked for math errors, transcription errors, typos, misread graphs, and coding and data entry inconsistencies. For the period before 1999, a much more cursory review was performed. Suspicious values were investigated and corrected by, if possible,... -
Palmer Station CLIMAT surface observational data, 2007-present (ongoing).
Each yearly directory contains monthly CLIMAT messages in ASCII text format. Wind speeds and gusts had to be corrected between 2/28/2019 17:56 UTC - 11/20/2019 16:17 UTC due to the wrong propeller being installed on the BASE wind sensor. All files with "_fix" appended to them have been corrected.... -
Princess Elisabeth Station radiosonde data, 2014-present (ongoing).
Each year contains monthly directories, which in turn contain various data files in .txt, .jpg and .bufr format. Labels include: BUFR Temp Hodograph PE Radiosonde Skew -
USAP Antarctic Field Camp Observations, 1999-present (ongoing).
The following files are climatology data from years 1998 to present for several field camps around the continent. The data includes temperature (degrees C), visibility (hours), weather situation and duration (in hours for each event category), precipitation amount (in), IFR (hours), wind speed... -
Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station climatology data, 1957-present (ongoing).
This dataset contains the local climatological data (LCD) files for Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. These files are available for the period of record of January 1957 until present. The datafiles contain daily and monthly summary measurements in plain text format. Each yearly zip file contains... -
Palmer Station monthly weather reports, 2022-present (ongoing).
Palmer Station is Station 89061 in the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Worldwide Network. Automated surface synoptic observations are made 8 times each day and emailed to the National Atmospheric and Oceanographic Administration (NOAA) for entry into the Global Telecommunication System... -
Dome C Automatic Weather Station, 1988 Reader format three-hour observational data.
The Reader three-hourly observation data are composed of the nearest valid instantaneous observation within 40 minutes of the synoptic reporting times (i.e., 00, 03, 06, 09, 12, 15, 18, and 21). These data are uncorrected for the years 1980-1990, gross error checked for 1991-2000, and quality... -
Marble Point Automatic Weather Station, 1984 quality-controlled observational data.
These files contain monthly observational data that have been quality-controlled using semi-automated computer programs as well as oversight by our staff. The filenames are prefixed with a label identifying one of three different observation intervals - ten minute (10min), one hour (1hr), and... -
Marble Point Automatic Weather Station, 1984 Reader format three-hour observational data.
The Reader three-hourly observation data are composed of the nearest valid instantaneous observation within 40 minutes of the synoptic reporting times (i.e., 00, 03, 06, 09, 12, 15, 18, and 21). These data are uncorrected for the years 1980-1990, gross error checked for 1991-2000, and quality... -
Nancy Automatic Weather Station, 1983 Reader format three-hour observational data.
The Reader three-hourly observation data are composed of the nearest valid instantaneous observation within 40 minutes of the synoptic reporting times (i.e., 00, 03, 06, 09, 12, 15, 18, and 21). These data are uncorrected for the years 1980-1990, gross error checked for 1991-2000, and quality...