Continuous Subdaily Meteorological Records at Signy Station, the South Orkney Islands 1947 - 1994

The data consists of a CSV file of mean sea level pressure (MSLP, in hPa), 1.25 m temperature (in celsius), 10 m wind speed (in knots), 10 m wind direction (in degrees), and relative humidity (in percent) measured at Signy Station (Latitude 60 degress 43'0"S, Longitude 45 degrees 36'0"W) for the period of 1947 - 1994. These data were used by Lu et al. (2023) to study extreme high temperature events in the South Orkney Islands (SOIs).

Funding was provided by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) to the Atmosphere, Ice and Climate Programme of British Antarctic Survey (BAS), NERC National Capability International grant SURface FluxEs In AnTarctica (NE/X009319/1) and the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation framework programme under Grant agreement no. 101003590 (PolarRES).

Date (Creation): 2023-07-25

Date (Revision): 2023-07-25

Date (Publication): 2023-07-25

Date (released): 2023-07-25

Edition: 1.0

Unique resource identifier: https://doi.org/10.5285/d74b142c-7981-4a6a-9321-cf904a5668e6

Codespace: doi

Unique resource identifier: GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01767

Codespace: https://data.bas.ac.uk/

Unique resource identifier: NE/X009319/1

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Other citation details: Please cite this item as: Colwell, S., & Lu, H. (2023). Continuous Subdaily Meteorological Records at Signy Station, the South Orkney Islands 1947 - 1994 (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/d74b142c-7981-4a6a-9321-cf904a5668e6

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Status: Completed

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Antarctic Survey	Colwell, Steve		Author
British Antarctic Survey	Lu, Hua		Author
NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre		PDCServiceDesk@bas.ac.uk	Point of contact

Maintenance and update frequency: As needed

Maintenance note: Completed

Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords

EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Temperature

Theme

Signy station
meteorological data

Place

Signy Station

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Language: English

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Topic category

Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 1947-03-22

End date: 1994-12-31

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Minimum value: 6.0

Maximum value: 6.0

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Supplemental Information: It is recommended that careful attention be paid to the contents of any data, and that the author be contacted with any questions regarding appropriate use. If you find any errors or omissions, please report them to polardatacentre@bas.ac.uk.

Title: European Petroleum Survey Group (EPSG) Geodetic Parameter Registry

Date (Publication): 2008-11-12

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European Petroleum Survey Group		EPSGadministrator@iogp.org	Publisher

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Version: 6.18.3

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NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre		PDCServiceDesk@bas.ac.uk	Distributor

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Statement: Methodology:

Signy Station was established by the United Kingdom in 1944 on Signy Island and operated as a year-round meteorological station from 1947 to 1995. A description of the station can be found at https://www.bas.ac.uk/polar-operations/sites-and-facilities/facility/signy/.

For the first time, the Signy meteorological record is made available continuously from 1947 to 1994. Paper-based historical weather observations collected at Signy Station during 1947 - 1954 and 1970 - 1981 have recently been digitized by a team at the British Antarctic Survey. The team developed an automated deep-learning Optical Character Recognition (OCR) model which extracts the records from scanned versions of the paper copies automatically. The OCR model output was then put through a series of quality control procedures including human examination of the outputs. Records outside these periods that already existed in electronic form have also been quality controlled

Data collection:

More about how the data were collected and the instrumentation can be found at https://legacy.bas.ac.uk/met/READER/metadata/Signy.html.

Data quality:

Early observations at Signy Station were taken at the standard synoptic hours (i.e., 00, 06, 12, 18 UTC) during 1947 - 1949 and then every three hours during 1950 - 1974. The records became twice daily (at 00 and 12 UTC) during 1975 - 1983 but mostly only one observation per day (at 12 UTC) during 1976 - 1981. The collection interval returned to the standard synoptic hours during 1984 - 1987. Automated collection of data then started around late 1988, which provided hourly data during 1989 - 1994.

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File identifier: d74b142c-7981-4a6a-9321-cf904a5668e6 XML

Metadata language: English

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Date stamp: 2023-07-25

Metadata standard name: ISO 19115 Geographic Information - Metadata

Metadata standard version: ISO 19115:2003(E)

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre		polardatacentre@bas.ac.uk	Point of contact

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