International Polar Year 1882-1883 the digitized meteorological data legacy ...

The first International Polar Year (IPY) was an international effort to perform continous meteorological and geophysical observations over a time period of two years (1882-1883). Eleven nations established twelve research stations in the Arctic along with thirteen auxilary stations. Two stations wer...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Krause, Reinhard A, Grobe, Hannes, Sieger, Rainer
Format: Dataset
Language:English
Published: PANGAEA 2010
Subjects:
IPY
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.761657
https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.761657
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Summary:The first International Polar Year (IPY) was an international effort to perform continous meteorological and geophysical observations over a time period of two years (1882-1883). Eleven nations established twelve research stations in the Arctic along with thirteen auxilary stations. Two stations were operated on the southern hemisphere (South Georgia and Tierra del Fuego). The data were published in 26 volumes on 8700+ pages of reports, descriptions, tables and graphs in total. The list of meteorological parameters includes temperature, wind, pressure, clouds, precipitation, evaporation, humidity and radiation.In the light of Global Change and the intensification of observations and continous measurements in both polar regions, long-time series increase in importance. The observations of the first IPY from the 19th century enable us to extend the data from the 20th century even more back into the past. In the occasion of the fourth IPY (2007-2009) WDC-MARE decided to digitize the complete set of ... : The "download dataset" link will load an iso-image (703 MB) to burn the data CD on a local computer. ...