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Airways Solar Radiation (DSI-3281)

Entry ID: gov.noaa.ncdc.C00044

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Summary

Abstract: Airways Solar Radiation is historical digital data set DSI-3281, archived at the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). This is meteorological and solar radiation data. The meteorological data is a small historical subset of the larger, ongoing NCDC data set, US Global Surface Airways Hourly Observations (DSI-3280) (C00215). DSI-3281 contains meteorological data from only 31 of the many DSI-3280 ... stations, and only from the years 1988-95. These 31 stations also reported direct and global solar radiation data, which is found in DSI-3281 but not DSI-3280. The 31 stations included in this historical data set are located in the US and Guam. The stations are: Albuquerque, NM; Lander, WY; Bismarck, ND; Las Vegas, NV; Boise, ID; Long Beach, CA; Boulder, CO; Madison, WI; Brownsville, TX; Midland, TX; Burlington, VT; Montgomery, AL; Caribou, ME; Nashville, TN; Columbia, MO; Omaha, NE; Dodge City, KS; Phoenix, AZ; El Paso, TX; Pittsburgh, PA; Ely, NV; Raleigh, NC; Fresno, CA; Salt Lake City, UT; Grand Junction, CO; Seattle, WA; Great Falls MT; Sterling, VA; Guam, PI; Tallahassee, FL; and Lake Charles, LA. This data set contains hourly or 3-hourly surface weather observations that are taken primarily at major airports and military bases. Observations are made by trained personnel, or by automated equipment that has been tested by the controlling agency. Stations are usually fully instrumented and therefore record a complete range of meteorological parameters. Observations are generally recorded for the 24-hour period midnight to midnight. Basically, the major parameters are clouds, visibility, winds, air temperature, sky cover, relative humidity, air pressure, direct and global radiation and present weather. However, there have been several historical changes in the way observations have been recorded, including the advent of the Automated Surface Observing System (ASOS) in 1992. The detailed parameters, allowing for such changes, are: sky condition in tenths and height per layer; sky condition in eighths and height per layer; altimeter setting; sky condition in tenths and cloud coverage by layer; sky condition in eighths and cloud coverage by layer; ceiling height; cloud type and height by layer; total amount of sky cover by the first two cloud layers and by the first three cloud layers; dew point temperature in tenths Celsius; dew point temperature in Fahrenheit; horizontal visibility; station pressure; direct and global radiation; present weather code; present weather between 5 and 10 statute miles in vicinity; relative humidity; sea level pressure; air temperature in tenths Celsius; air temperature in Fahrenheit; wet bulb temperature in tenths Fahrenheit; total sky cover in eighths; total sky cover and total opaque sky cover measured in tenths; wind direction and speed to 16 points; wind direction and speed; and wind direction and speed from ASOS. All parameters are not reported by all stations.

Purpose: To make a wide range of climatic data available to researchers and the public.

SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION: data set

CURRENTNESS REFERENCE: Ground Condition

Related URL

Link: VIEW EXTENDED METADATA

Description: View Source Metadata document from the Metadata Manager and Repository (NMMR).

Geographic Coverage

(Click for Interactive Map)

Spatial coordinates

N: 49.0

S: 10.0

E: -65.0

W: 140.0

Data Set Citation

Dataset Originator/Creator: National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce

Dataset Title: Airways Solar Radiation (DSI-3281)

Dataset Release Date: Unknown

Data Presentation Form: tabular digital data

Online Resource: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 1988-01-01

Stop Date: 1995-12-31

Location Keywords

OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > WESTERN PACIFIC OCEAN > GUAM

Science Keywords

ATMOSPHERE > AIR QUALITY > VISIBILITY

ATMOSPHERE > ALTITUDE > BAROMETRIC ALTITUDE

ISO Topic Category

IMAGERY/BASE MAPS/EARTH COVER

Platform

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS

Instrument

CAMERAS

Quality A series of photographs covering the coastline of Heard Island were captured using a Linhof camera during 1987. Some smaller scale photography were also captured using a Hasselblad camera during 1980.

Dr Jenny Scott visited Heard Island during 2000 to conduct vegetation surveys. Dr Scott used the photography as a base for her mapping and also used a global positioning system to ...

Access Constraints The data are available on a CD or DVD. Contact the Technical Contact at the AADC for details. The centre points for each image are available for download at the url given below.

Use Constraints This data set conforms to the PICCCBY Attribution License
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).

Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference provided at the URL below when using these data.

Ancillary Keywords

HEARD ISLAND

IMAGE

Data Set Progress

COMPLETE

Originating Center

Data Center

Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia

Data Center URL: http://data.aad.gov.au

Data Center Personnel
Name: DATA OFFICER AADC Phone: +61 3 6232 3244 Fax: +61 3 6232 3351 Email: metadata at aad.gov.au Contact Address: Australian Antarctic Division 203 Channel Highway City: Kingston Province or State: Tasmania Postal Code: 7050 Country: Australia

Distribution

Distribution Media: DVD

Distribution Size: 11.4 GB

Distribution Format: tiff

Fees: free

Personnel

URSULA HARRIS

Role: INVESTIGATOR

Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT

Role: DIF AUTHOR

Phone: +61 3 6232 3519

Fax: +61 3 6232 3351

Email: metadata at aad.gov.au

Contact Address:

Australian Antarctic Division

203 Channel Highway

City: Kingston

Province or State: Tasmania

Postal Code: 7050

Country: Australia

Creation and Review Dates

DIF Creation Date: 2003-04-02

Last DIF Revision Date: 2008-11-12

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