Citation:

PANGAEA.57222

Name: GISP2 Automatic Weather Station Kenton Daily Averages
Published: 2000-08-23
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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Published: 2000-08-23 • DOI registered: 2005-04-08

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Related to:

GRIP/GISP (1997): The Greenland Summit Ice Cores CD-ROM GISP2/GRIP. National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado at Boulder, and World Data Center for Paleoclimatology, National Geophysical Data Center, Boulder Colorado, CD-ROM, grip-gisp.iso

Stearns, C R; Weidner, G A (1990): Snow temperature profiles and heat fluxes measured on the Greenland crest by automatic weather stations. Proceedings of the International Conference on the Role of Polar Regions on climate Change, June 11-15, Fairbanks, Alaska, 1, 223-226

Stearns, C R; Weidner, G A (1990): The polar automatic weather station project of the University of Wisconsin. Proceedings of the International Conference on the Role of Polar Regions on climate Change, June 11-15, Fairbanks, Alaska, 1, 58-62

Project(s):

Greenland Ice Core Projects (GRIP/GISP/NGRIP)

Coverage:

Latitude: 72.280000 * Longitude: -38.800000

Date/Time Start: 1989-06-10T12:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1995-01-28T12:00:00

Event(s):

Kenton (ARGOS8922) * Latitude: 72.280000 * Longitude: -38.800000 * Date/Time Start: 1989-06-01T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1995-01-31T00:00:00 * Location: Greenland * Campaign: * Basis: Sampling/drilling ice * Method/Device: Monitoring (MON) * Comment: 8922 from June 1989 to Jan 1995. Kenton move 0.02 degrees in Jan 1991

Comment:

AWS data from 1987-1995 for stations distributed on and around GISP2. Data received by satellite and accumulated by ARGOS before being transmitted to Univ of Wisconsin-Madison for processing. Daily averages created from the original 3 hour files.

Parameter(s):

#	Name	Short Name	Unit	Principal Investigator	Method/Device	Comment
1	DATE/TIME	Date/Time				Geocode
2	Temperature, air	TTT	°C	Stearns, C R
3	Pressure, atmospheric	PPPP	hPa	Stearns, C R
4	Wind direction	dd	deg	Stearns, C R
5	Wind speed	ff	m/s	Stearns, C R	Automated weather station (AWS)
6	Humidity, relative	RH	%	Stearns, C R
7	Temperature, difference	delta T	°C	Stearns, C R		measured from 3 m to 0.5 m minus the zero calibration

License:

Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-3.0)

Size:

9182 data points

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