North Pole Environmental Observatory (NPEO) Weather and Radiation Buoy Data
Summary
This data set includes in situ air pressure, wind, temperature, longwave radiation, and shortwave radiation measurements. Data were recorded from 27 April 2002 by weather stations and radiometers on drifting buoys near the North Pole that were deployed by the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL). A lack of solar energy, which is needed to power the radiometer batteries, rendered some data useless after mid-to-late September.The North Pole Environmental Observatory (NPEO) is a year-round, automated scientific observatory, deploying various instruments each April in order to learn how the world's northernmost sea helps regulate global climate. It consists of a set of unmanned scientific platforms that record oceanographic, cryospheric, and atmospheric data throughout the year. Data are in ASCII text format.
Data access
ORDER data for delivery by FTPAdditional information
Related projects: ARCSSObservational frequency: hourly
Spatial type: point
Categories: Arctic, Oceanography
Platforms: Radiometer
Documentation:
- index.html [34 KB]
- NPEO_Weather_and_Radiation_Buoy_readme.txt [4 KB]
Related links:
Temporal coverage
Begin datetime: 2002-04-27 00:00:00, End datetime: 2009-11-20 23:59:59
Spatial coverage
Minimum latitude: 67.276000, Minimum longitude: -26.131000Maximum latitude: 89.168000, Maximum longitude: 76.476000
Point of contact
Roger AndersenUniversity of Washington - Polar Science Center
E-Mail address: roger at apl dot washington dot edu