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The data in year subdirectories of pub/aws/10min/avg contain ten-minute interval
average data of several AGO sites in Antarctica.  The data was originally
collected elsewhere, under the leadership of Steven Mendes and Jack Doolittle
and permission has been given to us by Antarctic Support Associates to freely
redistribute this meteorological data.

This data is in the same format as our regular ten-minute data, though the
way this data was put together differs.  At its peak, the data was received
every minute; thus this data, as available, is an average of five minutes
either way around the ten-minute interval marker.  Wind speed and direction
were broken up into vectors and an "average" wind was then recalculated; the
others are straight averages.  Like all data, there will be gaps in what is
available.

Specifically, the times from which averages were created are as follows:

time range  ten minute
  (min)     time (min) 
  56-05         00
  06-15         10
  16-25         20
  26-35         30
  36-45         40
  46-55         50

A brief list of stations and their locations:

     AGO-1   20655   83.86 S   129.61 E   2,865 m
     AGO-2   08073   85.67 S    46.38 W   1,860 m
     AGO-3   20654   82.76 S    28.58 E   2,912 m
     AGO-4   08864   82.01 S    96.76 E   3,565 m
     AGO-5   26620   77.23 S   123.50 E   3,084 m
     AGO-6   26621   69.51 S   130.01 E   2,560 m

Like our "standard" ten minute data, this data is "uncorrected."  A passive
effort has been made to remove obnoxious extremes of data as they occur,
though subtle errors may still exist.  More refinements of this data are
possible as use of it takes place.

If you're unfamiliar with the format or file name construction of our
"standard" ten minute data, please download the readme files in pub/aws/10min/rdr
and familiarize yourself before making use of the ten minute average data
herein.