Swiss Polar Institute: Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition (ACE)
Published April 17, 2020 | Version 1.0
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Original telegrams of surface weather observations in the Southern Ocean on board the R/V Akademik Tryoshnikov during the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition (ACE) in the austral summer of 2016/2017.

Creators

  • 1. Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, Russia
  • 2. Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies, Department of Physics, University of Aveiro, Portugal

Contributors

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Data collector:

  • 1. Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, Russia
  • 2. Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies, Department of Physics, University of Aveiro, Portugal
  • 3. Swiss Polar Institute, Switzerland

Description

Dataset abstract

This dataset contains original reports of surface weather observations in the Southern Ocean made aboard the R/V Akademik Tryoshnikov during the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition (ACE), in the austral summer of 2016/2017. The observations were made by a meteorologist on board the ship and encoded with FM 13–XIV Ext. SHIP code form (Report of surface observation from a sea station). The encoded telegrams were sent to the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) and archived on the ship.

The telegrams were usually recorded on a 3-hourly basis (at 0000, 0300, 0600, 0900, 1200, 1500, 1800, 2100 UTC) and on some dates on a 6-hourly basis. They contain information about present and past weather; latitude, longitude, speed and direction of the ship; visibility; type, height and amount of clouds; speed and direction of wind; air, dew-point and sea-surface temperatures; barometric pressure; period, height and direction of waves; concentration of sea ice; information about land ice. Data coverage is from November 2016 until April 2017, with some data missing from February and March.

For more information on this type of report, please see the WMO Manual on Codes (WMO-No.306), Volume I.1, Part A:
https://library.wmo.int/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=13617#.XoHf4oW3Ih4

Data files have undergone no processing or quality-checking, therefore, if the variable you need is available in another ACE dataset, it is recommended to use the quality-checked data. These telegrams have been decoded and are available in another related dataset.

Dataset contents

  • UBXH3mmdd.HHh, data file, text file
  • README.txt, metadata, text file

Dataset license

This set of original meteorological telegrams are made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0) whose full description can be found at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Notes

The Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition was made possible by funding from the Swiss Polar Institute and Ferring Pharmaceuticals. Special thanks to the R/V Akademik Tryoshnikov crew and Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (St Petersburg, Russia). I.G. thanks FCT/MCTES for the financial support to CESAM (UID/AMB/50017/2019) through national funds. This project has received funding from EPFL, Swiss Polar Institute and from Ferring Pharmaceuticals.

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Additional details

Related works

Is supplemented by
Report: 10.5281/zenodo.1443511 (DOI)
References
Book: 978-92-63-10306-2 (ISBN)

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