Dataset: Cassidy International Airport weather
Deployment: Cassidy_Airport_Weather_1996-2015

Cassidy International Airport weather data

Co-Principal Investigator:

Kim Cobb (Georgia Institute of Technology, GA Tech)

Ruth D Gates (Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology)

Contact:

Austin Landry Bennett (Georgia Institute of Technology, GA Tech)

Kim Cobb (Georgia Institute of Technology, GA Tech)

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

Amber D. York (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)

Project:

RAPID: Tracking coral reef impacts of the 2014/2015 El Nino event (RAPID Kiritimati)

Data URL:

https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset-deployment/660105/data

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Description

These weather data include air temperature, humidity, precipitation, wind speed, wind direction, and visibility from Cassidy International Airport (PLCH) on Kiritimati in the Northern Line Islands between 2006 to 2015.

Methods & Sampling

Dataset acquisition description

Information collected from a weather station at Cassidy International Airport, Kiritimati. Rain information collected with a splayed base rain gauge.

Data Processing Description

Dataset Processing Description

BCO-DMO Data Manager Processing Notes:
* added a conventional header with dataset name, PI name, version date
* modified parameter names to conform with BCO-DMO naming conventions
* removed unnecessary columns such as snowfall accumulation.
* removed undocumented columns such as wind_speed_high and wind_speed_low due to unknown "high" and "low" limits. wind_speed_mean is still included.
* lat/lon added for Cassidy International Airport
* parameter description source (daily data section) being verified with data contributor.

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Funding

Award Number	Funding Source
OCE-1446274	NSF Division of Ocean Sciences

Instruments

Automated Weather Station

Supplied Name: Weather station at Cassidy International Airport

Supplied Description:

Instrument Type

Generic Name: Automated Weather Station

Acronym: AWS

Community Identifier: http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L05/current/102/

Generic Description:

Land-based AWS systems are designed to record meteorological information.

Parameters

Supplied Name	Supplied description	Supplied Units	Standard Name
date	Date (local UTC+14:00) in yyyy-mm-dd	unitless	date
dew_point_high	Dew Point (max of hourly values)	degrees Celsius	weather
dew_point_low	Dew Point (min of hourly values)	degrees C	weather
humidity_fraction_high	Relative humidity expressed as a fraction (max of hourly values)	dimensionless	humidity
humidity_fraction_low	Relative humidity expressed as a fraction (min of hourly values)	dimensionless	humidity
humidity_fraction_avg	Relative humidity expressed as a fraction (average of hourly values)	dimensionless	humidity
precip_per_hour_avg	Precipitation (average of hourly values)	millimeters per hour	precip_level
precip_per_hour_sum	Precipitation (sum of hourly precipitation)	millimeters per day	precip_level
pressure_avg	Pressure (average of hourly values)	millibars (mbar)	press
temp_high	Air temperature (max of hourly values)	degrees Celsius	temp
temp_low	Air temperature (min of hourly values)	degrees Celsius	temp
visibility_avg	Visibility (average of hourly values)	kilometers (km)	weather
wind_direction	Angular mean wind direction (from hourly values)	degrees	wind_dir
wind_speed_high	Wind speed (max of hourly values)	meters per second (m/s)	wind_speed
wind_speed_low	Wind speed (min of hourly values)	meters per second (m/s)	wind_speed
wind_speed_avg	Wind speed (average of hourly values)	meters per second (m/s)	wind_speed
lat	Latitude of Cassidy International Airport	decimal degrees	lat
lon	longitude of Cassidy International Airport	decimal degrees	lon

Database

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Dataset: Cassidy International Airport weather
Deployment: Cassidy_Airport_Weather_1996-2015

Dataset acquisition description

Dataset Processing Description

Database

Contribute Data

Dataset: Cassidy International Airport weatherDeployment: Cassidy_Airport_Weather_1996-2015

Dataset acquisition description

Dataset Processing Description

Dataset: Cassidy International Airport weather
Deployment: Cassidy_Airport_Weather_1996-2015