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BALTEX: Sodankyla Surface Meteorology and Radiation Data Set

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Summary

This data set contains the Coordinated Energy and Water Cycle Observation Project (CEOP) Baltic Sea Experiment (BALTEX) Sodankyla Hourly Surface Meteorology and Radiation Data Set. This data set contains hourly data from the single station in the BALTEX reference, Sodankyla station. This dataset contains the time period 1 October 2002 through 31 December 2008.

This data set contains both ASCII data and netCDF data. The ASCII data file covers the entire time period for all stations. The netCDF data file covers the entire time period with one netCDF file for each station.

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Additional information

Homepage	https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/76.151
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Related projects	CEOP/EOP-3: Coordinated Enhanced Observing Period EOP-3 CEOP/EOP-4: Coordinated Enhanced Observing Period EOP-4 CEOP: Coordinated Energy and Water Cycle Observation Project
Spatial Type	point
Frequency	hourly
Language	English
Categories	Surface
Platforms	Weather Stations
Instruments	Anemometers Automated Weather System Barometers Photosynthetically Active Radiation Sensor Pyranometers Pyrgeometers Thermometers Wind Vanes
GCMD Science Keywords	AIR TEMPERATURE DEW POINT TEMPERATURE DEW POINT TEMPERATURE HOURLY PRECIPITATION AMOUNT LONGWAVE RADIATION NET RADIATION PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION RELATIVE HUMIDITY SHORTWAVE RADIATION SKIN TEMPERATURE SKIN TEMPERATURE SNOW DEPTH SNOW DEPTH SPECIFIC HUMIDITY SURFACE PRESSURE U/V WIND COMPONENTS WIND DIRECTION WIND SPEED Show 15 more... Expand keywords
Documentation	BALTEX_Sodankyla_ObservatorSiteA_20050101_20051231_readme.txt [5 KiB] BALTEX_Sodankyla_ObservatorSiteA_20060101_20061231_readme.txt [5 KiB] BALTEX_Sodankyla_ObservatorSiteA_20070101_20071231_readme.txt [5 KiB] BALTEX_Sodankyla_ObservatorSiteA_20080101_20081231_readme.txt [5 KiB] BALTEX_Sodankyl_ALL_sfc.txt [5 KiB]
Restrictions	user agreement required: ceop_policy.html [15 KiB]
Related links	info: CEOP ASCII Data Format Descriptions

Temporal coverage

Begin datetime	2002-10-01 00:00:00
End datetime	2008-12-31 23:59:59

Spatial coverage

Map data from IBCSO, IBCAO, and Global Topography.

Maximum (North) Latitude: 67.50, Minimum (South) Latitude: 62.00
Minimum (West) Longitude: 26.50, Maximum (East) Longitude: 27.00

Primary point of contact information

Bengt Tammelin <bengt.tammelin@fmi.fi>

Citation

Example citation following ESIP guidelines:

Tammelin, B. 2010. BALTEX: Sodankyla Surface Meteorology and Radiation Data Set. Version 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory. https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/76.151. Accessed 26 May 2022.

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