Baseline surface radiation during the International Polar Year 2007-2009

• Main Authors: Lanconelli, Christian, Busetto, Maurizio, Dutton, Ellsworth G, König-Langlo, Gert, Maturilli, Marion, Sieger, Rainer, Vitale, Vito, Yamanouchi, Takashi
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2011
• Subjects: Alaska; USA; Antarctica; AWIPEV; AWIPEV_based; BAR; Barrow; Baseline Surface Radiation Network; BSRN; Concordia Station; Dome C; Cosmonauts Sea; DATE/TIME; DOM; Dronning Maud Land; Elevation of event; Event label; Georg von Neumayer; GVN; International Polar Year (2007-2008); IPY; Latitude of event; Longitude of event; Monitoring station; MONS; Neumayer_based; NEUMAYER III; NYA; Ny-Ålesund; Spitsbergen; Optional event label; South Pole; SPO; SYO; Syowa; Uniform resource locator/link to file; Antarc*; Antarctic; Archipelago; Cosmonaut sea; Cosmonauts sea; International Polar Year; Ny Ålesund; South pole; Svalbard
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.737668; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.737668

Downwelling and upwelling shortwave and longwave radiation components from six active polar sites, taking part of the Baseline Surface Radiation Network (BSRN), were selected for the period of the last International Polar Year (March 2007 to March 2009), and included in the BSRN-IPY dataset, along with metadata and supplementary data for some of the stations. Two sites, located at Svalbard archipelago (Ny Ålesund) and Alaska (Barrow), represent Arctic sea-level conditions. Four Antarctic stations represent both sea-level (Dronning Maud Land and Cosmonaut Sea) and high-elevation conditions (South Pole and East Antarctic Plateau). The BSRN-IPY dataset content and quality are discussed.