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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 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 Daily Climate Summaries
daily_sum_DDMMYY.txt (2020-present) Daily summaries of high and low values for temperature, wind, station pressure, physio-altitude, sky cover, sunshine, visibility, and daily records. -
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 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 Surface CLIMAT Messages
Each yearly directory contains monthly CLIMAT messages in ASCII text format. File name conventions: sp-YYYY-MM.txt (1957-2007) climat-YYYY-MM.msg 2007-present) -
Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station Synoptic Observations
Synoptic observations were made at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. A document referencing cloud and observation formats in synoptic messages is included. The following files are ASCII text with slight variations in their convention over the record: MMDD.SYN (1992-1999) MMDD.syn (1999-present) -
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 -
Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station Raw Surface Observations
Monthly 3 hourly (.prn) (1957-2006) and daily 1 hourly data (.csv) (1957-2007) are available. The column labels are: Station ID (Station_ID), Date and time (Date_Obs), temperature (T;DegC), maximum temperature (Tmax;DegC), minimum temperature (Tmin;DegC), Sea level pressure (PPPP), Station... -
Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station Upper Air CLIMAT Messages
Each yearly directory contains monthly CLIMAT messages in ASCII text format. File name conventions: MMM YYY UA CLIMAT.txt (2004-2009) MMM YYY UA CLIMAT.TXT (2004-2009) MMM_YYYY_UA_CLIMAT.txt (2009-present) -
Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station One-minute Data
South Pole Station's one-minute surface observations that contain wind direction, wind speed, temperature, dew point, altimeter reading, and sea level pressure data. These are produced on a minute by minute basis. The file naming scheme is OMO MM-DD-YY.txt where OMO denotes one-minute... -
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... -
Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station Hourly Surface Observations
An automated system (currently FMQ-23) is utilized, but all of the visual observation elements (visibility, present weather/precipitation, and sky cover) are taken manually. All automatic data from the two FMQ towers, located at the skiway and the Clean Air Sector, is received via Mesotech’s... -
Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station Weekly Summaries
weekly_sum_DDMMYY.txt (2019-present) Weekly summaries of high and low values for temperature, wind, station pressure, physio-altitude, sky cover, sunshine, visibility, balloon flights and weekly records. -
Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station Radiosonde Data
Radiosonde data is available from Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. The following files are ASCII text with slight variations in their convention over the record: aYYMM.1st (1977-1990) MMYY.aud (1991-2004) MMDDTTTT.dat/DAT (1993-2004) MMDDTTTT.gps/dat, and a few MMYY.aud (2002-2004)... -
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... -
Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, 1957-2011 quality-controlled surface observational data.
Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station was established by the United States Navy in the austral summer of 1956–1957. This dataset contains the complete record of meteorological observations from the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station, February 1957 through February 2011 as reported in the local climate... -
Amundsen-Scott South Pole (NZSP) Campbell-Stokes Sunshine Recorder Cards, 2014 - 2023.
Sunshine cards serve as a physical measure of the sun’s position and strength for a given time and location on Earth. Sunshine cards from South Pole are created with two Campbell-Stokes recorders. Around most of the world, only one recorder is used at a location. However, south of the Antarctic...