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Long-term dataset of mean surface and upper air meteorological measurements from a selection of Antarctic stations and automatic weather stations - READER (REference Antarctic Data for Environmental Research) project
READER (REference Antarctic Data for Environmental Research) is a project of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR http://www.scar.org/) and has the goal of creating a high quality, long term dataset of mean surface and upper air meteorological measurements from in-situ Antarctic observing systems. These data will be of value in climate research and climate change investigations.
The primary sources of data are the Antarctic research stations and automatic weather stations. Data from mobile platforms, such as ships and drifting buoys are not being collected since our goal is to derive time series of data at fixed locations.
Surface and upper air data are being collected and the principal statistics derived are monthly and annual means. Daily data will not be provided in order to keep the data set to a manageable size. With the resources available to the project, it is clearly not possible to collect all the information that could be required by the whole range of investigations into change in the Antarctic. Instead a key set of meteorological variables (surface temperature, mean sea level pressure and surface wind speed, and upper air temperature, geopotential height and wind speed at standard levels) are being assembled and a definitive set of measurements presented for use by researchers.
A lot of stations have been operated in the Antarctic over the years; many for quite short periods. However, our goal here is to provide information on the long time series that can provide insight into change in the Antarctic. So to be included, the record from a station must extend for 25 years, although not necessarily in a continuous period, or be currently in operation and have operated for the last 10 years. In READER we have chosen to use only data from year-round stations.
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- Date (Creation)
- 2007-06-01
- Date (Revision)
- 2007-06-01
- Date (Publication)
- 2007-06-01
- Date (released)
- 2007-06-01
- Edition
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1
- Unique resource identifier
- f6f69041-907e-4ba3-a8ca-4c78b8cd32a8
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uuid
- Unique resource identifier
- GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/00248
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Please cite this item as: None
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No credit.
- Status
- Completed
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre Point of contact
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
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- Completed
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Atmospheric conditions
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Meteorological geographical features
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geopotential height
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mean sea level pressure
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meteorology
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surface temperature
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surface wind speed
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upper air temperature
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Antarctica
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- no limitations to public access
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- no limitations
- Use constraints
- License
- Other constraints
- This dataset is supplied under the Open Government Licence v3.0: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/
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url
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url
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url
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- Text, table
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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- Begin date
- 1905-01-01
- End date
- 1905-01-01
- Supplemental Information
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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.
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European Petroleum Survey Group (EPSG) Geodetic Parameter Registry
- Date (Publication)
- 2008-11-12
- Cited responsible party
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role European Petroleum Survey Group
Publisher
- Unique resource identifier
- urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::3031
- Version
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6.18.3
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- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre Distributor
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- Transfer size
- 1
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Protocol Linkage Name WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/met/READER/data.html Get Data
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Methodology:
It is important when using mean data to know the number of observations that were used in computing the means. As discussed in the data section, the READER mean monthly values are therefore colour coded to indicate the percentage of possible observations used in computing each mean.
Metadata are being provided, where possible, to indicate the type of observing systems used to make the measurements, changes of observing site, changes of observing practice etc. The structure of the metadata is deliberately flexible and will vary considerable between stations, depending on what information is available.
The READER data set is being disseminated via CD-ROM and through the World Wide Web at http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/met/READER/. The first release of the data set covers the period up to the end of 2000 and contains all the data collected so far. However, there are still a number of significant gaps and it is hoped that these can be filled over the coming years. In particular, we still require more upper air data .
The data set will be kept up to date on a regular basis via the web site and new versions of the CD released periodically.
Metadata
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- f6f69041-907e-4ba3-a8ca-4c78b8cd32a8 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Hierarchy level name
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dataset
- Date stamp
- 2007-06-01
- Metadata standard name
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ISO 19115 Geographic Information - Metadata
- Metadata standard version
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ISO 19115:2003(E)
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre Point of contact
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