A consistent High Arctic climatological dataset (1979-2018) of the Polish Polar Station Hornsund (SW Spitsbergen, Svalbard)

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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.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.909042
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-805-2020
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.909042
Provenance
Creator Wawrzyniak, Tomasz (ORCID: 0000-0003-3393-753X); Osuch, Marzena ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2019
Rights Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Representation
Resource Type Publication Series of Datasets; Collection
Format application/zip
Size 37 datasets
Discipline Atmospheric Sciences; Geosciences; Meteorology; Natural Sciences
Spatial Coverage (15.550 LON, 77.000 LAT); Spitsbergen
Temporal Coverage Begin 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2018-12-31T00:00:00Z