Published April 17, 2020 | Version 1.0
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Decoded 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.

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

Description

Dataset abstract

This dataset contains decoded 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 sent as telegrams encoded with World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) FM 13 code form. Posteriorly, the telegrams were decoded to produce this dataset.

The telegrams were recorded on a 3-hourly basis and 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; etc. For more information on this type of report, please see the WMO Manual on Codes (WMO-No.306), Volume I.1, Part A. The original encoded files have been published separately (Veledin and Gorodetskaya, 2020; DOI 10.5281/zenodo.3734884).

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. Quality-checked meteorological data collected during ACE have been published separately (Landwehr et al., 2019; DOI 10.5281/zenodo.3379590).

Dataset contents

  • ACE_telegram_decoded_YYYY_MM_DD_HHh.txt, data file, ASCII comma-separated
  • README.txt, metadata, text file
  • data_file_header.txt, metadata, text file
  • Telegram_code_format.pdf, metadata, portable document format

Dataset license

This set of decoded 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 compiled by
Software: 10.5281/zenodo.3735028 (DOI)
Is derived from
Dataset: 10.5281/zenodo.3734884 (DOI)
Is supplemented by
Dataset: 10.5281/zenodo.3734884 (DOI)
References
Report: 10.5281/zenodo.1443511 (DOI)
Book: 978-92-63-10306-2 (ISBN)

References

  • David W H Walton, & Jenny Thomas. (2018, November 22). Cruise Report - Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition (ACE) 20th December 2016 - 19th March 2017 (Version 1.0). Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1443511
  • World Meteorological Organization (2018). Manual on Codes - International Codes, Volume I.1: Part A - Alphanumeric Codes. (2018: 2011 edition updated). Geneva, Switzerland, WMO, 466pp. (WMO-No. 306: I.1.A). https://library.wmo.int/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=13617
  • Veledin, V. and Gorodetskaya, I. (2020). Original telegrams of surface weather, ocean and ice state 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. (Version 1.0) [Data set]. Zenodo.
  • Diogo, L. and Gorodetskaya, I. (2020, April 17). Python script to decode WMO FM13 SHIP telegram data recorded during the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition (ACE) (Version 0.1.0). Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3735028