Full Record - Automatic Weather Station (AWS) data collected from Rothschild, Latady and Smyley Islands, Antarctic Peninsula, 2005

Automatic Weather Station (AWS) data collected from Rothschild, Latady and Smyley Islands, Antarctic Peninsula, 2005

GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/00293

Abstract:
Three micro-power Automatic Weather Stations (AWS) with two sonic ranging sensors were deployed at field-sites situated at Rothschild Island, Latady Island and Smyley Island in January 2005. The AWS instruments included a wind vane and two humicaps on the mast and two sonic ranging sensors mounted on separate horizontal scaffold poles.

The AWS data collected contributed to a project concerned with understanding how air mass origin and meteorology affect the mass accumulation of snow in areas of the Antarctic Peninsula, and how the atmosphere's properties are preserved in the snow.

Access Data

Access:	Requests for data can be made via the UK Polar Data Centre (UK PDC) at BAS.

Authors

Name	Dr Gareth Marshall
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	British Antarctic Survey

Name	Dr Georgina Miles
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	British Antarctic Survey

Name	UK PDC
Role(s)	Metadata Author
Organisation	British Antarctic Survey

Name	Dr John Turner
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	British Antarctic Survey

Name	Dr Thomas Lachlan-Cope
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	British Antarctic Survey

Name	Dr Robert Mulvaney
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	British Antarctic Survey

Basic Information

Creation Date:	2007-11-20
Dataset Progress:	Complete
Dataset Language:	English
ISO Topic Categories:	Climatology/Meteorology/Atmosphere
Parameters:	Atmosphere > Atmospheric Winds Atmosphere > Precipitation > Precipitation Amount Atmosphere > Precipitation > Snow Cryosphere > Snow/Ice > Snow Depth Hydrosphere > Snow/Ice > Snow Depth

Additional Information

Reference:	Published references: Miles GM, Marshall GJ, McConnell JR, Aristarain AJ. 2008. Recent accumulation variability and change on the Antarctic Peninsula from the ERA40 reanalysis. International Journal of Climatology 28: 1409-1422. Miles, G., Marshall, G., Turner, J., Mulvaney, R., & Lachlan-Cope, T. 2006. Improving Ice Core Interpretation: The Role of Storm-Track Changes on Sub-Annual Peninsula Precipitation Variability. Antarctic Funding Initiative, Fifth Workshop, New Hall, Cambridge, 20-21 September 2006 Miles, G., Marshall, G., Turner, J., Mulvaney, R., & Lachlan-Cope, T. 2005. Improving Ice Core Interpretation: The Role of Storm Track Changes on the Sub-Annual Peninsula Precipitation Variability. Antarctic Funding Initiative, Fourth Workshop, New Hall, Cambridge, 27-28th September 2005. Unpublished references: AFI4-09_Marshall_field_report (BAS Archives) Project reference: AFI project 04/09. Improving ice-core interpretation.
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Extent

Temporal Coverage:
Start Date	2005-01-08
End Date	2006-02-11

Spatial Coverage:
Latitude
Southernmost	-73
Northernmost	-69.5
Longitude
Westernmost	-79
Easternmost	-72.5
Altitude
Min Altitude	N/A
Max Altitude	N/A
Depth
Min Depth	N/A
Max Depth	N/A

Location:
Location	Antarctica
Detailed Location	Rothschild Island
Location	Antarctica
Detailed Location	Latady Island
Location	Antarctica
Detailed Location	Smyley Island

Instrumentation

Sensor(s):	ANEMOMETERS AWS > Automated Weather System HUMIDITY SENSORS WIND VANES

Storage

Distribution:
Distribution Media	Online FTP
Distribution Size	700 Mb
Distribution Format	N/A
Fees	See Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Data Policy

Data Storage:	This data is managed by the UK Polar Data Centre (UK PDC) Physical Sciences Data Manager at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). The data for both GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/00293 and GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/00294 is 700 MB and consist of Text files; MS Excel files, MS Word files, Postscript, Encapsulated Postscript, PDF, IDL files The data is held on the BAS Storage Area Network (SAN).

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