########################################################################### # Notice on the use of Antarctic Meteorological Research Center data sets # ########################################################################### # The Antarctic Meteorological Research Center (AMRC) collects, archives # # and provides Antarctic meteorological observational data to the # # community and public for research, logistic, and educational activities.# # The AMRC requests acknowledgement for use of the data in any published # # work. See http://amrc.ssec.wisc.edu/acknowledgement.html for details on # # how to acknowledge AMRC data, displays or information. # # If the AMRC data are critical to the work, co-authorship may be # # appropriate. Please contact the AMRC in such a case. # # # # AMRC Contact Information: # # Address: 947 Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences Building # # 1225 West Dayton Street # # Madison, Wisconsin, USA 53706 # # Telephone: +1 (608) 262-0436 # # Fax: +1 (608) 263-6738 # # E-mail: amrc@ssec.wisc.edu # # Web: http://amrc.ssec.wisc.edu/ # # FTP: ftp://amrc.ssec.wisc.edu/ # # McIDAS ADDE: Group AMRC and ARCHIVE on aws.ssec.wisc.edu # # RAMADDA: https://amrc.ssec.wisc.edu/repository/ # # Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/AMRCAWS # # Twitter: http://twitter.com/antmet # # YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/AMRCantmet # # Wikipedia: # # http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctic_Meteorological_Research_Center # # http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctic_Automatic_Weather_Stations_Project # # # Updated: 16 July 2013 # # # ########################################################################### Port Martin, Cape Denison, and Penguin Point now have pressure corrections made to account for decrease in pressure in the electronics box during high wind speeds. This is a generalized fix using pressure, temperature and wind speed. If anyone comes up with a better scheme, we would be happy to use it. Butler Island has a faulty pressure report. The oscillator is causing jumps up or down on the order of 13.4 hPa or multiples of that interval. We are attempting to compensate for that by adding or subtracting the appropriate value for the pressure. The wind directions on Port Martin have been corrected for 2000. There was confusion over the direction that the boom was installed. Starting in 1992, station 8912 became Bonaparte Point, and the vertical temperature difference column was replaced with a column indicating water temperature. The water temperature column stayed with the station when it became 8923. Similarly, Santa Claus Island (8910 & 21364) also shows water temperature instead of vertical temperature difference as appropriate. At times, a couple of stations had the same ARGOS ID #, so to differentiate between them, the leading 9 was dropped off the file name for one station. Files for from 1980-1983 have no columns for relative humidity or vertical temperature difference. Starting with November 1994, there are a set of stations located on the Siple Coast, with five digit ID numbers beginning with 213. Names for these have been shortened to "13xx" where xx are the last two digits of the site's ID. Whereas with the 89xx series of stations the leading 8 is dropped, the leading 1 is dropped here, so that, for example, November of 1994 for station 21355 is 3551194h.dat.