AWS and AMRC Data Archive

[AWS/AMRC Data Archive]

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The Automatic Weather Stations' Project and the Antarctic Meteorological Research Center archive many forms of meteorological data available for use by the scientific community and the public, free of charge. Users of the data are asked only to acknowledge the AWS or AMRC project appropriately, for anything produced or published that uses the data. Much of the AWS's and AMRC's data is provided online - via ftp or web, but some data has yet to be added to the Web, so feel free to ask for other types of data not listed below. To request data from the AWS project or the AMRC, please contact us at the AWS and AMRC projects.

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NOAA Polar Orbiting AVHRR HRPT GAC and LAC images

At the AMRC offices in the Crary Science and Engineering Center at McMurdo Station, the AMRC collects and archives the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) polar orbiting Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) High Resolution Picture Transmission (HRPT) images from the earth station there. This data is archived on tape and the tapes are periodically flown in from McMurdo to be added to the archive at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. This data includes all five channels of the AVHRR instrument, and is at 1-kilometer resolution since the images are from the HRPT signal. The AMRC has been archiving the NOAA polar orbiting data since 30 October 1992. Have a look at a sample image. (83 Kb) We do have some data voids from 25 August 1993 to 23 Febuary 1994 and 2 November 1995 to October 1996.

The AMRC also collected a set of NOAA Polar Orbiting AVHRR Global Area Coverage (GAC) images from 7 December 1994 through August 1995, with scattered coverage to 26 March 1996. This lower resolution data set (three kilometers by five kilometers) is available from AMRC, though only the infrared window channel was archived. This is a sample GAC image. (69 Kb)

The AMRC has been collecting Local Area Coverage (LAC) images from 17 October 1998 to present of the Ronne Ice Shelf Iceberg (scattered coverage when there is partially or totally clear fields of view). This data is much like the HRPT data, in that it is 1 km resolution with all five channels of the AVHRR instrument. Beginning 30 March 1999, AMRC began archiving all available LAC images over the Antarctic continent.

Antarctic Projects Archived Data

Archived AWS Data
Satellite Composites
NOAA Polar Orbiting GAC and LAC Images
NCEP MRF Gridded Model Output
NCEP Wind & Wave Forecast Model

Ship Reports
Radiosonde Observations
Synoptic and METAR Observations
Satellite Derived Winds

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grants Nos. OPP-0537827, OPP-0338147, and OPP-0230028. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the National Science Foundation.