Dataset: Autonomous Weather Station - AWS-Kirkwood Is.

Name: Surface meteorological data from Kirkwood Island off the Antarctic Peninsula from the Autonomous Weather station from 2001-2003 (SOGLOBEC project)
Published: 2010-01-01
Keywords: oceans

Cite This Dataset

DOI:10.1575/1912/bco-dmo.2347.1

Temporal Extent: 2001-05-22 - 2003-04-30

Project:

U.S. GLOBEC Southern Ocean (SOGLOBEC)

Program:

U.S. GLOBal ocean ECosystems dynamics (U.S. GLOBEC)

Co-Principal Investigator:

Robert C. Beardsley (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI)

Richard Limeburner (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI)

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

Ms Dicky Allison (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)

Version:

Version Date:

2010-01-01

Restricted:

Validated:

Yes

Current State:

Final no updates expected

Surface meteorological data from Kirkwood Island off the Antarctic Peninsula from the Autonomous Weather station from 2001-2003 (SOGLOBEC project)

Abstract:

Surface meteorological data from Kirkwood Island off the Antarctic Peninsula from the Autonomous Weather station from 2001-2003 (SOGLOBEC project)

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Archival Copy

Version Date	Archive	Persistent Identifier (PID)	Date PID Issued
2010-01-01	Marine Biological Laboratory/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Library (MBLWHOI DLA)	10.1575/1912/bco-dmo.2347.1	2019-02-28

Description

SO GLOBEC Moored Array, Drifter, and Float Component

PIs: Bob Beardsley, Dick Limeburner, Breck Owen

Surface meteorological data collected at Kirkwood Island

Location 68.34S - 69.01W, elev 30m (source http://amrc.ssec.wisc.edu/aws/)

Fieldname descriptions

Date of submission: 12/07/04

Source File: SOG_aws_rawNEW2.mat (from Mike Caruso)

Processing by Beardsley group:
Edit barometric pressure, air temp., relative humidity, and wind speed by:
(a) removing values outside bounds,
(b) convert wind speed and direction (met convention) into east and north wind components u,v (ocean convention),
(c) removing wild points, (csub1) average resulting edited data in 1 hr time bins to create uniform hourly time series,
(d) truncating each variable into common time base,
(e) compute wind stress, sensible heat flux and latent heat flux using COARE26, with SST set to 0 and sensor height 12 m).
Save times tuv0 when raw wind speed = 0 (prop stuck due to icing, etc). [edit_aws_rawD.m, awsintA.m, coare26v.m] (not served)

Sample Rate: 1 hr

Records: 16993

Period: Start: 05/22/2001 00 GMT
Stop: 04/30/2003 00 GMT

Last updated March 1, 2006

Methods & Sampling

Surface meteorological data collected at Kirkwood Island.
Location 68.34S - 69.01W, elev 30m (source http://amrc.ssec.wisc.edu/aws/)

Data Processing Description

Data Files

File
awsK.csv (Comma Separated Values (.csv), 2.19 MB) MD5:b54cd43e46106232d96bd7816a19bc95 Primary data file for dataset ID 2347

More Information about this dataset

Funding Sources

Funding Source	Award Number
NSF Antarctic Sciences	ANT-0230028
NSF Antarctic Sciences	ANT-0338147
NSF Antarctic Sciences	ANT-0537827

Deployments

Deployment	Synonyms	Start Date	Platform	Investigator
Kirkwood_Island		2001-05-22	Autonomous Weather station	Robert C. Beardsley (Chief Scientist)	data info

Instruments

Automated Weather Station

Supplied Name: Automatic Weather Station

Supplied Description:

Automated Weather Station

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

Date and time formats are described in python strftime() syntax.

Supplied Name	Supplied description	Supplied Units	Standard Name
year	year		year
month_gmt	month of year, GMT		month_gmt
day_gmt	day of month, GMT		day_gmt
hour_gmt	time, GMT 24 hour clock, whole hours		time_gmt
press_bar	barometric pressure	millibars	press_bar
julian_day	Julian day (decimal day) as a reference, Julian day 2440000 begins at 0000 hours, May 23, 1968.	dec. day	julian_day
wind_speed	wind speed	meters/second	wind_speed
wind_dir_e	wind direction with reference to East (deg wrt E)reported in the meteorological convention (winds from) as:positive 0-180 degrees, counter clockwise from Eastnegative 0-180 degrees, clockwise from East	deg wrt E	wind_dir_e
wind_vel_u	east component of wind velocity, reported in the oceanographic convention (winds to)	m/sec	wind_vel_u
wind_vel_v	north component of wind velocity, reported in the oceanographic convention (winds to)	m/sec	wind_vel_v
temp_air	air temperature	degrees C.	temp_air
humidity	relative humidity	percent	humidity
wind_tau_n	wind stress	Newtons/m<sup>2</sup>	no_bcodmo_term
wind_taux_n	east component of wind stress	Newtons/m<sup>2</sup>	wind_taux_n
wind_tauy_n	north component of wind stress	Newtons/m<sup>2</sup>	wind_tauy_n
heat_flux_sens	sensible heat flux	watts/m<sup>2</sup>	heat_flux_sens
heat_flux_lat	latent heat flux	watts/m<sup>2</sup>	heat_flux_lat