Daily averaged weather timeseries (air temperature, pressure, wind speed, wind direction, precipitation, sky cover) at Palmer Station, Antarctica combining manual observations (1989 - Dec 12, 2003) and PALMOS automatic weather station measurements (Dec 13, 2003 - March 2019). ...

• Main Authors: LTER, Palmer Station Antarctica, Information Manager, PAL
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Environmental Data Initiative 2019
• Subjects: Antarctic; Palmer Station; Palmer-Station; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.6073/pasta/cddd3985350334b876cd7d6d1a5bc7bf; https://portal.edirepository.org/nis/mapbrowse?packageid=knb-lter-pal.28.8

Weather data acquisition was originally by manual observation and continued with an automated system installed in Nov 2001. Measurements began shifting from manual to automated observations in June 2003 until the manual observations were ended on December 12, 2003. Data are collected, compiled, and distributed by the US Antarctic polar contractor. Electronic distributed occurs monthly from Palmer station via internet and are available at University of Wisconsin weather archive: ftp://amrc.ssec.wisc.edu/pub/palmer/climatology/ ...