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Main Authors: Krause, Reinhard A, Grobe, Hannes, Sieger, Rainer
Format: Dataset Open Access
Language:en
Published: PANGAEA 2010
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.761657
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author Krause, Reinhard A
Grobe, Hannes
Sieger, Rainer
author_facet Krause, Reinhard A
Grobe, Hannes
Sieger, Rainer
collection Datos científicos de ciencias marinas y ambientales
contents The first International Polar Year (IPY) was an international effort to perform continous meteorological and geophysical observations over a time period of two years (1882-1883). Eleven nations established twelve research stations in the Arctic along with thirteen auxilary stations. Two stations were operated on the southern hemisphere (South Georgia and Tierra del Fuego). The data were published in 26 volumes on 8700+ pages of reports, descriptions, tables and graphs in total. The list of meteorological parameters includes temperature, wind, pressure, clouds, precipitation, evaporation, humidity and radiation. In the light of Global Change and the intensification of observations and continous measurements in both polar regions, long-time series increase in importance. The observations of the first IPY from the 19th century enable us to extend the data from the 20th century even more back into the past. In the occasion of the fourth IPY (2007-2009) WDC-MARE decided to digitize the complete set of meteorological data in full hourly resolution and publish it in its reports and make it available in Open Access via the data library PANGAEA.
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spellingShingle International Polar Year 1882-1883 the digitized meteorological data legacy
Krause, Reinhard A
Grobe, Hannes
Sieger, Rainer

The first International Polar Year (IPY) was an international effort to perform continous meteorological and geophysical observations over a time period of two years (1882-1883). Eleven nations established twelve research stations in the Arctic along with thirteen auxilary stations. Two stations were operated on the southern hemisphere (South Georgia and Tierra del Fuego). The data were published in 26 volumes on 8700+ pages of reports, descriptions, tables and graphs in total. The list of meteorological parameters includes temperature, wind, pressure, clouds, precipitation, evaporation, humidity and radiation. In the light of Global Change and the intensification of observations and continous measurements in both polar regions, long-time series increase in importance. The observations of the first IPY from the 19th century enable us to extend the data from the 20th century even more back into the past. In the occasion of the fourth IPY (2007-2009) WDC-MARE decided to digitize the complete set of meteorological data in full hourly resolution and publish it in its reports and make it available in Open Access via the data library PANGAEA.
title International Polar Year 1882-1883 the digitized meteorological data legacy
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url https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.761657