Daily Precipitation Sums at Coastal and Island Russian Arctic Stations, 1940-1990

Data Contributors RADIONOV, VLADIMIR F ALEKSANDROV, YE. I. SVYASHCHENNIKOV, P. N. FETTERER, FLORENCE Parameters PRECIPITATION > PRECIPITATION AMOUNT Instruments RAIN GAUGES

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This data set contains precipitation data originally recorded in log books at 65 coastal and island meteorological stations, and later digitized at the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI), St. Petersburg, Russia, under the direction of Vladimir Radionov. Records from most stations begin in 1940. Instrumentation was generally a rain gauge with Nipher shield until the early 1950s (for most stations), when the Tretyakov precipitation gauge replaced earlier instrumentation. Data have not been adjusted for gauge type or wind bias. Observers corrected the data from 1967-1990 for wetting loss as they recorded the station data.

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Radionov, V. F., Y. I. Aleksandrov, P. N. Svyashchennikov, and F. Fetterer. 2004. Daily Precipitation Sums at Coastal and Island Russian Arctic Stations, 1940-1990. [indicate subset used]. Boulder, Colorado USA: National Snow and Ice Data Center. http://dx.doi.org/10.7265/N5JS9NCS.

See Also

• Environmental Working Group Arctic Meteorology and Climate Atlas
• Meteorological Data from the Russian Arctic, 1961-2000
• Global Precipitation Climatology Centre (GPCC)
• Monthly Mean Precipitation Sums at Russian Arctic Stations, 1966-1990
• Precipitation Data Set Station Lists and Overlap Analysis
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