National Snow & Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center

nasa-nsidcdaac-0190

Historical Arctic and Antarctic Surface Observational Data

This product consists of meteorological data from 105 Arctic weather stations and 137 Antarctic stations, extracted from the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC)'s Integrated Surface Hourly (ISH) database. Variables include wind direction, wind speed, visibility, air temperature, dew point temperature, and sea level pressure. Temporal coverage varies by station, with the earliest record in 1913 and the latest in 2002. Data are in tab-delimited ASCII text format, with one file per station and year. Graphs of meteorological variables throughout the time series accompany the ASCII data. Data are available via FTP.

http://nsidc.org/data/NSIDC-0190

Identified by : NSIDC-0190

This dataset was released on January 07, 2004.

The time range for this dataset is January 01, 1913 to December 31, 2002.

The spatial range for this dataset is -90° to -60.717° latitude, and 0° to 178.72° longitude. map (center)

DOI : 10.5067/4DIN375AWFIO
Also known as :

• dataset oai:nsidc/NSIDC-0190 (nsidc lexicon)