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Daily Arctic Ocean Rawinsonde Data from Soviet Drifting Ice Stations
Entry ID: NSIDC-0060

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Summary

Abstract: This archive of daily rawinsonde measurements of wind direction and speed, atmospheric pressure, humidity, air temperature, and geopotential height as well as surface-based observation of cloud cover (amount, type and height) from Soviet North Pole drifting stations was assembled under the direction of Dr. J. Kahl, with funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Science Foundation, and the Electric Power Research Institute. Soundings were recorded from April 19, 1954 to July 31, 1990 at drifting stations located in the Arctic Ocean, north of approximately 70 degrees North. Data were obtained from several different sources. All of these data are ultimately derived from the set of bound volumes of handwritten tables kept at the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) in St. Petersburg, Russia. Data are in 21 ASCII text format files with an average size of under 10 MB. The data are available via ftp.

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Geographic Coverage

N: 90.0 S: 70.0 E: 180.0 W: -180.0

Data Set Citation

Dataset Title: Daily Arctic Ocean Rawinsonde Data from Soviet Drifting Ice Stations
Dataset Release Date: 1997-01-01
Dataset Release Place: Boulder, CO U.S.A.
Dataset Publisher: National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)
Online Resource: http://nsidc.org/data/nsi-0060.html

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 1954-04-19

Stop Date: 1990-07-31

Location Keywords

GEOGRAPHIC REGION > ARCTIC
GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR

ISO Topic Category

CLIMATOLOGY/METEOROLOGY/ATMOSPHERE
ENVIRONMENT

Platform

OCEAN WEATHER STATIONS [Information]

Instrument

RAWINSONDES [Information]

Project

EOSDIS >Earth Observing System Data Information System [Information]

ESIP >Earth Science Information Partners Program [Information]

Keywords

AARI

Arctic

Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute

Arctic Ocean

CAO

Central Aerological Observatory

Cloud Cover

Cloud Cover Amount

Cloud Cover Height

Cloud Cover Type

Dew Point Depression

Drifting Station

DRIFTING STATIONS

Moscow

Rawinsonde

Relative Humidity

Russia

Russian

Sounding

Soviet

St Petersburg

Wind Velocity

Data Set Progress

COMPLETE

Originating Center

AARI

Data Center

NSIDC Distributed Active Archive Center [Information]
Data Center URL: http://nsidc.org/daac/index.html
Dataset ID: NSIDC-0060

Data Center Personnel

Name: NSIDC USER SERVICES
Phone: +1 (303) 492-6199
Fax: +1 (303) 492-2468
Email: nsidc at nsidc.org
Contact Address:
National Snow and Ice Data Center
CIRES, 449 UCB
University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA

National Snow and Ice Data Center [Information]
Data Center URL: http://nsidc.org
Dataset ID: NSIDC-0060

Data Center Personnel

Name: NSIDC USER SERVICES
Phone: +1 (303) 492-6199
Fax: +1 (303) 492-2468
Email: nsidc at nsidc.org
Contact Address:
National Snow and Ice Data Center
CIRES, 449 UCB
University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA

Distribution

Distribution_Media: ftp
Distribution_Size: 1 MB to 24 MB
Distribution_Format: ASCII text

Personnel

JONATHAN D. W. KAHL
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Phone: 414-229-4561
Email: kahl at csd.uwm.edu
Contact Address:
Department of Geosciences
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
P.O. Box 413
City: Milwaukee
Province or State: WI
Postal Code: 53201
Country: USA

MARK C. SERREZE
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Phone: (303) 492-6199
Fax: (303) 492-2468
Email: serreze at nsidc.org
Contact Address:
National Snow and Ice Data Center
CIRES, 449 UCB
University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449

NSIDC USER SERVICES
Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT
Phone: +1 (303) 492-6199
Fax: +1 (303) 492-2468
Email: nsidc at nsidc.org
Contact Address:
National Snow and Ice Data Center
CIRES, 449 UCB
University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA

Publications/References

Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute. 1959. Observational data of the drifting scientific research stations 'North Pole-4' and 'North Pole-5' for the years 1956/57. Leningrad. Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute. 1960. Observational data of the drifting scientific research stations 'North Pole-6' and 'North Pole-7' for the years 1957/58. Leningrad. Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute. 1962. Observational data of the drifting scientific research stations 'North Pole-6' and 'North Pole-7' for the years 1958/59. Leningrad. Elliot, W. P., and D. J. Gaffen. 1991. On the utility of rawinsonde humidity archived for climate studies. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc. 72(10): 1507-20. Kahl, J. D., M. C. Serreze, R. S. Stone, S. Shiotani, M. Kisley, and R. C. Schnell. 1993. Tropospheric temperature trends in the Arctic: 1958-1986. J. Geophys. Res. 98: 12825-38. National Snow and Ice Data Center, Applied Physics Laboratory, Polar Science Center, Arctic and Antarcti
c Research Institute. 1996. Arctic Ocean snow and meteorological observations from drifting stations, 1937, 1950-1991. CD-ROM available from nsidc@kryos.colorado.edu. Boulder, Colorado: NSIDC, University of Colorado at Boulder. Serreze, M. C., J. D. Kahl and S. Shiotani. 1992. The historical arctic rawinsonde archive documentation manual. Special Report No. 2.National Snow and Ice Data Center, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado.

Creation and Review Dates

Last DIF Revision Date: 2011-07-28

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