A Two-Year Record of the Climate on the Greenland Crest from an Automatic Weather Station

• Main Authors: Weidner, George A., Stearns, Charles R.
• Other Authors: WISCONSIN UNIV-MADISON DEPT OF METEOROLOGY
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1992
• Subjects: Meteorology; Information Science; Unmanned Spacecraft; *METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITES; *WEATHER STATIONS; *CLIMATE; *METEOROLOGICAL DATA; AIR PRESSURE; GREENLAND; HEAT FLUX; HUMIDITY; LATENT HEAT; SNOW; TEMPERATURE; TRANSITIONS; VELOCITY; WIND; WINTER; *Global climate change; Component Reports; Automatic weather stations; Eismitte; Fairbanks; Greenland; Alaska
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADP007290; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADP007290

An automatic weather station (AWS) was installed on the Greenland Summit (72.30 N, 38.00 W, 3210 m) in May 1987. The AWS unit operated for two years until May 1989 when it was moved to Fresh Air Site (72.82 N, 38.82 W, 3185 m), an air sampling site, where it is still operating. The AWS data were tra...