A 40-year High Arctic climatological dataset of the Polish Polar Station Hornsund (SW Spitsbergen, Svalbard)

A consistent long-term (1979-2018) dataset from the Arctic meteorological site the Polish Polar Station Hornsund (77°00'N 15°33'E), located in the SW part of Spitsbergen. The Station is managed by the Institute of Geophysics Polish Academy of Sciences. The data series includes daily, monthly and annual air temperature (TA), PDD, NDD, the sum of precipitation (Precip), air humidity (RH), atmospheric pressure (PA), wind speed (WS) and direction (WD), sunshine duration (SD), cloudiness, and visibility (VV). This rich dataset, now available online, is a valuable source for documenting the state of the climate in SW Spitsbergen that represents the Atlantic sector of the Arctic. Nowhere on the planet is climate warming faster than here. With the positive trend of mean annual temperature +1.14°C/decade, the climate in Hornsund is warming five times faster than the global average.

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Additional Info

Field Value
GCMD keywords
  • name: EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION
  • name: EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD TYPES
  • name: EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD PROPERTIES > CLOUD HEIGHT
  • name: EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS > WIND SPEED
  • name: EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS > WIND DIRECTION
  • name: EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > SURFACE TEMPERATURE > AIR TEMPERATURE
  • name: EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR INDICATORS > HUMIDITY > RELATIVE HUMIDITY
  • name: EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > WATER TEMPERATURE
Dataset Center https://pangaea.de
Maintainer
Dataset PI
  • PI name: Tomasz Wawrzyniak PI email: tomaszfoo(at)igf.edu.pl PI ORCID: 0000-0003-3393-753X
Dataset Owner
  • Owner name: Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences Owner PIC (Participant Identification Code): 996625337 Owner address: Księcia Janusza 64, 01-452 Warszawa, Poland
Licence Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Dataset status Complete
Activity type long-term monitoring
Access constraint Open
Embargo
Dataset modified
Metadata created
Quality statement Quality controlled by statistical and manual inspection
Quality Editor
  • Editor name: Tomasz Wawrzyniak Editor email: tomaszfoo(at)igf.edu.pl Editor ORCID: 0000-0003-3393-753X Editor Institution: Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences
  • Editor name: Marzena Osuch Editor email: marzfoo(at)igf.edu.pl Editor Institution: Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences
Spatial distribution { "coordinates": [ [ [ 15.5873, 77.0048 ], [ 15.5482, 76.9953 ], [ 15.54, 77.0057 ], [ 15.5873, 77.0048 ] ] ], "type": "Polygon" }
Region Svalbard
Start time 1979-01-01 01:00 CET
End time
Dataset citation Wawrzyniak, T. and Osuch, M.: A consistent High Arctic climatological dataset (1979–2018) of the Polish Polar Station Hornsund (SW Spitsbergen, Svalbard), PANGAEA, https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.909042, 2019. 
Dataset DOI 10.1594/PANGAEA.909042
External resource
  • Resource URL: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.909042
Publication
  • Publication title: A 40-year High Arctic climatological dataset of the Polish Polar Station Hornsund (SW Spitsbergen, Svalbard) Publication DOI: 10.5194/essd-12-805-2020
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