########################################################################### # 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) 265-4816 # # 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 # # Google+: https://plus.google.com/115034961929701598493/posts?hl=en # # 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: 5 Mar 2020 # # # ########################################################################### The *.100, *txt, and *.PRN files can be viewed using a text editor, such as notepad. --Added S. Knuth Mar. 02, 2005 ___________________________________________________________________________ For Palmer Station monthly climatology reports: "We get 3 daily temperatures (1200 1800 2400) from reading the manual thermometer. The fourth (0600 GMT) reading we get off the PALMOS electronic thermometer. Those four points are averaged which is the number which reported in the monthly report." PALMOS is the new automated weather station at Palmer Station Please Note: Beginning October 2003, winds are being reported from the PALMOS wind monitor. PALMOS gives higher resolution data than the previous wind monitor, records digitally and is more recently calibrated. The format of this report has been slightly altered to reflect the new instrument. Instead of one 'maximum wind speed' field for each day, there are two. The first wind speed field (Peak 5-Sec Wind) is the maximum 5-second sustained gust in a given day. The second Wind Field (Peak 2-min Wind) is obtained by taking the wind measurements for the day, breaking them into two minute pieces, averaging all of the readings in a given piece to get a series of 2-minute averages, and then taking the maximum of these 2-minute average values. The Wind Direction field is associated with the Peak 2-minute average reading for a given day. Average wind speed is given by averaging each of the 2-minute average readings for a day. Prevailing wind direction is given by removing all of the readings with zero wind speed, then sorting the remaining finite wind speed measurements into eight bins (N, NE, E, SE, S, SW, W and NW), according to which direction they are closest to. Whichever direction has the most readings associated with it is the Prevailing Wind direction for that day. Please contact Kathie Hill (hillka@usap.gov) with any questions. The *.100 files are no longer available starting October 2017. There are 4 new files that have been transmitted that provide the daily Palmer observations: AWS1, AWS2, AWS3 and BASE files. AWS1 and the BASE files are available starting November 2015. AWS2 files are available starting March 2016 and AWS3 files are available starting August 2016. The automated weather station at Palmer Station has the following instrumentation: Type Manufacturer Model Temperature Rotronic HC2S3 Wind Speed RM Young 05108-45 Wind Direction RM Young 05108-45 Solar Radiation Licor LI 200 Precipitation Tipping Bucket / Mesotech P/N 29000098 Ceilometer Eliasson CBME80A Visibility Optical Scientific Inc OWI-430 WIVIS Pressure Honeywell HPA200 Quantum Licor LI 190 The remote stations have the same wind sensors and temperature sensors, but they are not in aspirated enclosures. -Palmer Research Associate ------------------------------------Updates------------------------------------- 07/15/03 -- M. Lazzara -- File created. 11/11/03 -- M. Lazzara -- Updated for notice on wind measurements 01/04/21 -- T. Norton -- Added instrumentation information