Antarctic Meteorological Oberservations from the Neumayer Ground Station and Research Ship FS Polarstern

These data are collected by the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) for
Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven for the Antarctica at the
Neumayer Ground Station (70S,8W) and at the research ship FS
Polarstern.

Synoptic observations are carried out every 3 hours. They include
measurements of air temperature (at 2 m height), air pressure (values
are reduced to mean sea level), wind vector, dew point temperature (at
2 m height), clouds (cloud amount, type and height), horizontal
visibility, present and past weather and snowdrift.

The full program is carried out at 0, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21 UTC. During
night time at 3 and 6 UTC, the visual observations are omitted. The
data is coded (FM12-SYNOP) and transferred directly to the Global
Telecommunication System (GTS) by a Data Collecting Platform (DCP)
where they contribute to weather forecasting.

At AWI the routine 3-hourly weather observation are archived together
with the data from the daily upper air soundings and surface radiation
and mast measurements in a relational database (SYBASE). Synoptic data
are available since 28 January 1981. Actual observations normally
reach the database once a month.

The data in the database can be retrieved directly via WWW: