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Atmospheric Datasets

Name

Variables

Temporal Coverage

Spatial Coverage

Person/Org

Alaska Climate Research Center

climate

1905-2004

Alaska Stations

Geophysical Institute, UAF

Annular Modes

Arctic and Antarctic indices

1965-present

Northern and Southern hemispheres

David Thompson/ Colorado State University

Arctic Oscillation time-series sea-level pressure; precipitation and surface/air anomalies 1889-2002

Arctic

Todd Mitchell/UW   

Circumarctic Environmental Observatory Network (CEON)

TBD

TBD

 

TBD

C. Tweedie, Michigan State Univ.

International Arctic Buoy Program (IABP)

sea-level pressure, ice motion, ocean salinity & temperature

real-time 1997-present

 

drifting throughout Arctic and subarctic

Ignatius Rigor, UW/PSC

International Tundra Experiment (ITEX)

TBD

TBD

TBD

TBD

NCEP Arctic Oscillation Index

daily

hemispheric

NCEP

North Pole Environmental Observatory (NPEO)

ocean salinity, sea ice thickness and temperature

2000-present

North Pole environs

Jamie Morison, UW/PSC

Polar Exchange at the Sea Surface (POLES)

surface air temperature     Arctic  Drew Rothrock, UW/PSC  

SHEBA

cloud properties, radiation,surface winds, cloud boundaries, radar reflectivity, meteorological balloons, spectral light

1997-98: 24,48 & 72 surface forecasts; 12 hr. radar reflectivity readings

icebreaker frozen in Arctic pack ice and allowed to drift

Richard Moritz, UW/PSC

 

World Ozone and Ultraviolet Radiation Data Center (WOUDC)

6 ozone categories and and 3 UV radiation archives

1960-present

400 stations

various/WOUDC

 

Last update: September 21, 2004

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