Dataset: Surface meteorological data from Kirkwood Island off the Antarctic Peninsula from the Autonomous Weather station from 2001-2003 (SOGLOBEC project)

SO GLOBEC Moored Array, Drifter, and Float Component

PIs: Bob Beardsley, Dick Limeburner, Breck Owen

Surface meteorological data collected at Kirkwood Island

Location 68.34S - 69.01W, elev 30m (source http://amrc.ssec.wisc.edu/aws/)

Fieldname descriptions

Date of submission: 12/07/04

Source File: SOG_aws_rawNEW2.mat (from Mike Caruso)

Processing by Beardsley group:
Edit barometric pressure, air temp., relative humidity, and wind speed by:
(a) removing values outside bounds,
(b) convert wind speed and direction (met convention) into east and north wind components u,v (ocean convention),
(c) removing wild points, (csub1) average resulting edited data in 1 hr time bins to create uniform hourly time series,
(d) truncating each variable into common time base,
(e) compute wind stress, sensible heat flux and latent heat flux using COARE26, with SST set to 0 and sensor height 12 m).
Save times tuv0 when raw wind speed = 0 (prop stuck due to icing, etc). [edit_aws_rawD.m, awsintA.m, coare26v.m] (not served)

Sample Rate: 1 hr

Records: 16993

Period: Start: 05/22/2001 00 GMT
Stop: 04/30/2003 00 GMT

Last updated March 1, 2006