Daily Arctic Ocean Rawinsonde Data from Soviet Drifting Ice Stations  View Catalog Page Entry ID
NSIDC-0060
Summary
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.
Geographic Coverage
Spatial Coordinates:
N: 90°
S: 70°
E: 180°
W: -180°
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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
Science Keywords
- Atmosphere Altitude Geopotential Height
- Atmosphere Atmospheric Pressure Atmospheric Pressure Measurements
- Atmosphere Atmospheric Temperature Air Temperature
- Atmosphere Atmospheric Water Vapor Dew Point Temperature
- Atmosphere Atmospheric Winds Surface Winds
- Atmosphere Atmospheric Winds Upper Level Winds
- Atmosphere Clouds Cloud Amount/Frequency
- Atmosphere Clouds Cloud Height
- Atmosphere Clouds Cloud Types
Ancillary 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
Platform
Instrument
Project
- EOSDIS Earth Observing System Data Information System
- ESIP Earth Science Information Partners Program
Data Set Progress
COMPLETE
Originating Center
AARI
Data Center
National Snow and Ice Data Center
Data Center URL: http://nsidc.org
Data Set ID: NSIDC-0060
Data Center Personnel
Name: NSIDC User Services
Phone: +1 (303) 492-6199
Fax: +1 (303) 492-2468
Email: nsidc@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
NSIDC Distributed Active Archive Center
Data Center URL: http://nsidc.org/daac/index.html
Data Set ID: NSIDC-0060
Data Center Personnel
Name: NSIDC DAAC User Services
Phone: +1 (303) 492-6199
Fax: +1 (303) 492-2468
Email: nsidc@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@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
MARK C. SERREZE
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Phone: (303) 492-6199
Fax: (303) 492-2468
Email: serreze@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@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
Reference
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 Antarctic 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.
Metadata Name and Version
Metadata Name: CEOS IDN DIF
Metadata Version: 9.7
Creation and Review Dates
Last DIF Revision Date: 2000-09-08
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