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Stearns, C R; Weidner, G A (2000): GISP2 Automatic Weather Station Kenton Daily Averages [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.57222

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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: GISP * 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):
#NameShort NameUnitPrincipal InvestigatorMethod/DeviceComment
1DATE/TIMEDate/TimeGeocode
2Temperature, airTTT°CStearns, C R
3Pressure, atmosphericPPPPhPaStearns, C R
4Wind directiondddegStearns, C R
5Wind speedffm/sStearns, C RAutomated weather station (AWS)
6Humidity, relativeRH%Stearns, C R
7Temperature, differencedelta T°CStearns, C Rmeasured from 3 m to 0.5 m minus the zero calibration
Size:
9182 data points

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