(Page II-LXXVII) Monthly mean surface meteorology during the drift of Vessel Varna

The Netherlands expedition intended to establish a station at Port Dikson, at the mouth of the Ienissei (Yenisey) river, but their ship was beset in heavy sea ice in the Kara Sea. The Varna, along with the Danish vessel Dijmphna, drifted with the ice for the entire IPY year. A station was built on the sea ice in October, near the two trapped ships. The Varna was crushed and finally sank on July 24, 1883. The position given is approximately central to the drift of the two ships.Sampling intervals and instrument locations varied during the period. Observations were made 6 times per day until October 9, when the station became operational, and during August 1883, after the station was abandoned. The placement of instruments is given:Barometer elevation: Aug and Sep 1882 = 0 m, Nov and Dec 1882 = 1.15 m, Jan to Jul 1883 = 2.5 m, Aug 1883 = 0.8 mThermometer elevation: Aug to Sep 1882 = on vessel, Oct 1882 on Jul 1883 = 3 m, Aug 1883 = 0.8 mAnemometer height: Installed at 7.20 m in Jan 1883The heights and elevations above also varied from the actual surface due to the accumulation and melting of snow and ice under the instrument installations.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.548952
PID https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.28853.d001
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.548952
Provenance
Creator Snellen, M; Ekama, H
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2010
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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Representation
Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 108 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (59.883W, 70.250S, 65.428E, 73.417N); Kara Sea
Temporal Coverage Begin 1882-08-31T23:59:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 1883-08-24T23:59:00Z