Meteorology data collected at Punta Arenas Airport in 2019 and 2020

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Dataset contains measurements of meteorological parameters including temperature, wind direction, wind speed and relative humidity, cloud coverage, and cloud height. Data were collected at the Punta Arenas Airport (53.01 S, 70.85 W) from SYNOP (surface synoptic observations).

The cloud height means above the ground of the base of the lowest cloud. Its values have following meaning according to WMO code table 1600, cf "https://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds463.0/docs/codes.pdf":0: 0-50m; 1: 50-100m; 2: 100-200m; 3: 200-300m; 4: 300-600m; 5: 600-1000m; 6: 1000-1500m; 7: 1500-2000m; 8: 2000-2500m; 9: >2500m or no cloud.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.944431
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.944440
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.944431
Provenance
Creator Gong, Xianda ORCID logo; Wex, Heike ORCID logo; Henning, Silvia ORCID logo; Stratmann, Frank ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2022
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Representation
Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 74712 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-70.850 LON, -53.010 LAT); Punta Arenas, Chile
Temporal Coverage Begin 2019-04-01T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2020-08-31T21:00:00Z