STAR Automatic Surface Weather Stations
https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/251.004

Summary
A small mesonet of 10 automatic weather stations, within a 100 km radius of
Iqaluit were installed at the end of September 2007 . The weather stations
were positioned over various forms of topography to assess storm influences on
surface weather. By collaborating with the local northern groups, Indian and
Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) and Qulliq Energy Corp., four of the mesonet
weather stations provided real-time weather data. Nine of these stations
measured 3m wind velocity, pressure, 2m temperature, and 2m humidity every
10-minutes. One of the ten stations was a 10-m tower installation at the
Environment Canada site in Iqaluit. This 10-m tower was equipped with similar
instrumentation as the other mesonet stations, but also included anemometers
sampling at 10 m, 4 m, 3 m, 2 m and 1 m and a visibility sensor. The Sentry
visibility sensor has a maximum range up to 16 km, and was set to record data
at one-minute sampling intervals. In addition to the ten southern Baffin
Island weather station sites, an additional automatic weather station was
setup in the community of Pangnirtung, October 13 – November 18, 2007. In
addition, a MAWS201 automatic weather station produced by Vaisala was set up
~100 m west of the weather station at the Pangnirtung airport on Oct 13, 2007.
This weather station was only operational between the dates of October 13 –
November 18, 2007, during the time periods were STAR personal were in
Pangnirtung.

Identifiers
 * Local archive identifier: 251.004
 * doi:10.26023/831V-NYVM-ZV0J
   https://doi.org/10.26023/831V-NYVM-ZV0J

Versions
  1.0

Citation
 Hanesiak, J., et al. 2020. STAR Automatic Surface Weather Stations. Version
 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory.
 https://doi.org/10.26023/831V-NYVM-ZV0J Accessed 19 Apr 2024.

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please acknowledge NCAR/EOL in your publications with text such as:

  Data provided by NCAR/EOL under the sponsorship of
  the National Science Foundation.
  https://data.eol.ucar.edu/

Related projects
 * STAR: Storm Studies in the Arctic
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project/STAR

Additional information
 * Spatial Type: point
 * Frequency: continuous
 * Language: English

Platforms
 * Mesoscale Meteorological Network - Mesonet
 * Weather Stations

Instruments
 * Automated Weather System

GCMD Science Keywords
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR INDICATORS > HUMIDITY > RELATIVE HUMIDITY
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE > SURFACE PRESSURE
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS > WIND SPEED
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > SURFACE TEMPERATURE > AIR TEMPERATURE
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > AIR QUALITY > VISIBILITY

Documentation
 * Metadata_AWS_Mesonet_YFB.pdf [70 KiB]
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/file/download/549B4D5180240/Metadata_AWS_Mesonet_YFB.pdf
 * Metadata_AWS_YXP.pdf [70 KiB]
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/file/download/549B4D5180242/Metadata_AWS_YXP.pdf
 * STAR_Data_Report_Final2011.pdf [12 MiB]
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/file/download/549B4D54FC456/STAR_Data_Report_Final2011.pdf

Related links
 * homepage: STAR Project Homepage
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/field_projects/star

Temporal coverage
 * Begin datetime: 2007-10-01 00:00:00 
 * End datetime: 2007-12-01 00:00:00 

Spatial coverage
 * Maximum (North) Latitude: 66.50
 * Minimum (South) Latitude: 63.13
 * Minimum (West) Longitude: -70.14
 * Maximum (East) Longitude: -62.16

Primary contact information
 * pointOfContact: EOL Data Support <datahelp@eol.ucar.edu>
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/1

Additional contact information
 * author: John Hanesiak <john_hanesiak@umanitoba.ca>
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/2026
 * author: Ron Stewart <ronald.stewart@umanitoba.ca>
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/2563
 * author: Kent Moore <gwk.moore@utoronto.ca>
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/1287
 * author: Peter Taylor <pat@yorku.ca>
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/2564
 * author: Walter Strapp
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/2565
 * author: Mengistu Wolde <mengistu.wolde@nrc.gc.ca>
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/2495

Alternate metadata formats
 * DataCite: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/251.004?format=datacite
 * ISO/TC 211: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/251.004?format=isotc211