Preprocessing Antarctic Weather Station (AWS) data in python ...

• Main Authors: Gerber, Franziska, Lehning, Michael
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: EnviDat 2022
• Subjects: ANTARCTICA; AWS; CONSISTENT; CRYOWRF; PYTHON; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre; Antarctica; Australian Antarctic Division; British Antarctic Survey
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.16904/envidat.340; https://envidat.ch/#/metadata/preprocessing-antarctic-weather-station-aws-data-in-python

There are many sources providing atmospheric weather station data for the Antarctic continent. However, variable naming, timestamps and data types are highly variable between the different sources. The published python code intends to make processing of different AWS sources from Antarctica easier. For all datasets that are taken into account variables are renamed in a consistent way. Data from different sources can then be handled in one consistent python dictionary. The following data sources are taken into account: * AAD: Australian Antarctic Division (https://data.aad.gov.au/aws) * ACECRC: Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre by the Australian Antarctic Division * AMRC: Antarctic Meteorological Research Center (ftp://amrc.ssec.wisc.edu/pub/aws/q1h/) * BAS: British Antarctic Survey (ftp://ftp.bas.ac.uk/src/ANTARCTIC_METEOROLOGICAL_DATA/AWS/; https://legacy.bas.ac.uk/met/READER/ANTARCTIC_METEOROLOGICAL_DATA/) * CLIMANTARTIDE: Antarctic Meteo-Climatological Observatory by the italian ...