########################################################################### # 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 # # # ########################################################################### READER files filename format: climo_.dat Header: Station Argos ID: XXXX Station Name: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Year: XXXX Column 1 Month name 2 variable type T: Temperature (mean values) P: Pressure (mean values) W: Wind Speed (mean values) R: Resultant Wind C: Constancy 3 Value formed from observations at 00Z 03Z 06Z 09Z 12Z 15Z 18Z 21Z 4 percent of total observations used for column 3 5 Value formed from observations at 00Z 06Z 12Z 18Z 6 percent of total observations used for column 3 7 Value formed from observations at 00Z 8 percent of total observations used for column 5 9 Value formed from observations at 06Z 10 percent of total observations used for column 7 11 Value formed from observations at 12Z 12 percent of total observations used for column 9 13 Value formed from observations at 18Z 14 percent of total observations used for column 11 15 Value formed from observations at 18Z 16 percent of total observations used for column 13 17 if zero then 3hr data file is of the proper size