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    term: oai:nsidc/NSIDC-0097
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  - display_name: 'Data Archive : National Snow & Ice Data Center '
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    id: 12316
    organization:
      country_code: US
      display_name: National Snow & Ice Data Center
      identifier: national-snow-ice-data-center
      name: National Snow & Ice Data Center
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      url: http://nsidc.org
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description: 'This data set includes daily, monthly, and yearly mean surface air temperatures for four interior West Antarctic sites between 1978 and 1997. Data include air surface temperatures measured at the Byrd, Lettau, Lynn, and Siple Station automatic weather stations. In addition, because weather stations in Antarctica are difficult to maintain, and resulting multi-decade records are often incomplete, the investigators also calculated surface temperatures from satellite passive microwave brightness temperatures. Calibration of 37-GHz vertically polarized brightness temperature data during periods of known air temperature, using emissivity modeling, allowed the investigators to replace data gaps with calibrated brightness temperatures. MS Excel data files and GIF images derived from the data are available via ftp from the National Snow and Ice Data Center.'
description_attribution: http://nsidc.org/data/nsidc-0001.html
display_name: Decadal-Length Composite West Antarctic Air Temperature Records
doi: 10.7265/N55D8PS0
end_time: 1997-12-31T00:00:00
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identifier: nsidc-0097
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lat_max: -74.21
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lon_max: 160.41
lon_min: 160.41
name: Decadal-Length Composite West Antarctic Air Temperature Records
native_id: NSIDC-0097
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references: []
release_dt: 2006-11-28T00:00:00
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start_time: 1978-10-25T00:00:00
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