These are the 3-hourly Automatic Weather Station observational files used for Costanza et al. 2016, "The Surface Climatology of the Ross Ice Shelf Antarctica." The full citation for the published paper is:
Costanza, C.A., Lazzara, M.A., Keller, L.M. and Cassano, J.J. (2016), The surface climatology of the Ross Ice Shelf Antarctica. International Journal of Climatology., 36: 4929-4941. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.4681.
Funding and support for this project was provided by the National Science Foundation (Grant Numbers: ANT-0944018, ANT-1141908, ANT-1245663, ANT-1245737), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Grant Number: EAR-0735156), and the US Antarctic AWS Program.
List of years for each included AWS:
- Elaine: 1986 - 1988; 1993; 2003; 2005 - 2013
- Eric: 2005 - 2013
- Gill: 1985 - 1989; 1991 - 2013
- Lettau: 1986 - 2011
- Marilyn: 1984, 1987 - 2013
- Martha I: 1984 - 1987
- Martha II: 1987 - 1992
- Margaret: 2008 - 2013
- Mary: 2005; 2006 - 2011
- Meeley: 1981 - 1985
- Sabrina: 2009 - 2013
- Schwerdtfeger: 1985 - 2013
- Vito: 2004 - 2013
