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Status Report on the Antarctic Meteorological
Research CenterMay 2003 to May 2004
Matthew A. Lazzara, Shelley L. Knuth, Charles R. Stearns,
Linda M. Keller and Jessica A. Staude
Antarctic Meteorological Research Center
Space Science and Engineering Center
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Outline• Annual Review
– Sample Work Accomplished– Web & FTP Stats and Revamp– Climatological Analysis Activities– Data Requests– Educational Outreach
• Present Activities– Data Holdings– Real-Time AWS Decoder…– Activities with NCDC and WMO…
• Future Activities– What do we hope to be doing?– Questions and Answers/Contact information
Charles R. Stearns – AMS Fellow
NOAA LAC – RIME Cover
Sample Work Accomplished
• Continued data activities – archiving:– Continued copy AMRC data archive from
• CD to 3590 tape• 1992-2003 for most data, working on LAC archive
– Started use of DVD-R for archiving (March 26, 2004)
• Tested out International ATOVS Processing Package (IAPP) at McMurdo past field season.– Hope to automate next field season– Possible return of products for community use?
• MGS Science Workshop…(more on that later…)
• New video tape/DVD-R – 10 years of composites!
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Most popular:Antarctic composite & Iceberg imagery
Remaining trafficis .com, .us., etc.including IP only…
AMRC, AWS, & Iceberg Web Site
• Complete revamping
• Easier to Access
• Added much more information with room to grow
• Effort made to be compliant with the Federal Rehabilitation Act's Section 508 standards
• Primary and backup – identical content– http://amrc.ssec.wisc.edu– http://ice.ssec.wisc.edu
Web Site Improvement
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• New AWS station pages – arranged by location
• Includes information on each station including: – pictures (if available)– station status, – the origin of station names, – real-time and archived data,– Latitude/longitude/elevation
Future Additions: – AWS station repair history– READER data links– Time Series– Suggestions ?
Photo Gallery
• Added many new satellite images– Interesting Iceberg Calvings– Interesting Satellite Features
• Photos from 2001 and 2003-2004 field seasons• Looking to host other imagery• http://amrc.ssec.wisc.edu/gallery.html
• Antarctic Journal:– http://tellus.ssec.wisc.edu/outreach/antarctic/index.htm
Iceberg Web Site
• Entirely redesigned page
• New information on icebergs– Distances, New images, etc.
• Redesigned archive of images – Arranged by iceberg and date
• Also include webcam pictures
• http://amrc.ssec.wisc.edu/iceberg.html
Case Studies
• Specific data collections for significant weather events
– Some data analysis by AMRC
– Some just data only
• Provide collections to UNIDATA
– First two delivered to UNIDATA/COMET Case study library:
• 23-25 October 1997 – Cape Roberts Project
• 20-22 January 2003 – Summer Storm
– Will be on ADDE server, FTP server & THREDDS Catalog (hooked to DLESE)
• http://amrc.ssec.wisc.edu/casestudy.html
Case Studies
• Future events to be studied:– 14-17 September 1998 – Maximum pressures between
Victoria Land and Palmer Land
– 3-5 September 2003 – Storm affecting McMurdo & AWS
– 15-16 May 2004 – Storm affecting McMurdo & AWS
– There are a few more dates and
– Fog events….(more on that later…)
– Will do a variety of meteorological phenomena…
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FTP Site
• Reorganized ftp site
• More categories, arranged in an easier to understand manner
• Primary and backup – nearly identical content
• ftp://amrc.ssec.wisc.edu
• ftp://ice.ssec.wisc.edu
Climatological Analysis Activities
• Put together initial set of “READER” like data from AWS data holdings– Create four READER files:
• READERfile• climatEXfile• climofile• Dailyfile
• More stations to do…• Instrumentations transitions….
– Special work proposed for Palmer– Will be a part of South Pole activities
• Published report• More from Kathie Hill’s talk…
Station Argos ID: 1356 Station Name: Swithinbank Year: 1997 Jan Max Temp: 19 0 -2.90 Jan Min Temp: 28 15 -15.00 Jan Max Pres: 31 18 891.70 Jan Min Pres: 26 3 871.60 Jan Max WSpd: 29 21 8.60 334.00
Coastal Environmental Systems
Data Requests
DomesticDomestic
• AMPS/MMM/NCAR• Doug Spandenberg, NASA LaRC• Meg Smith, U. Alaska Fairbanks• Austin Hogan• Jack Williams, USA Today• SPAWAR• Ralph Harvey, CWR• Thomas Nylen, Portland State• Jason Weale CRREL • Dan Lubin, AARC, SIO, UCSD• David McWilliams EGS• Germar Bernhard Biospherical Instruments Inc. • Ken Taylor, DRI• Green Chimneys School, Brewester, NY• Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory• Jeremy Bassis, SIO, UCSD
InternationalInternational
• CAS, University of Cambridge (UK)• Longman Geography (Australia)• Hamish McGowan (Australia)• División Glaciología Instituto
Antártico (Argentina)• Masaryk University (Czech Republic)• Peter Barrett, Victoria U., (NZ)• Fabricio Pereira Harter National
Institute for Space Research (Brazil)• U.Canterbury, Christchurch (NZ)• David Pedgley (UK)• James Brennan, U. Reading. (UK)• Aloys Bory BAS (UK)
Educational Outreach
• SSEC Public Tours, UW-Madison – Including Science open house– Over 500 visitors this year!
• ~1050 E-mails– Two way exchanges – Answering questions – Provided data or information– Students and general public
• CIMSS/Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium Workshop on Earth, Atmospheric & Space Sciences, Madison, WI
Madison Area Technical College, Madison, WI
Waunkee Middle School, Waunkee,WI
Drought Elementary, Franksville, WI
Glendale, Elementary, Madison, WI
Hawthorne Elementary, Madison, WI
St. Ann’s Elementary, Stoughton, WI
Deerfield Elementary, Deerfield, WI
Data HoldingsGenerated Data and Products
Satellite Imagery and Data
Model Analyses and Forecasts
Observational Data (GTS NOAAPORT)
Text Data(GTS etc.)
USAP Station Data
Antarctic Composites•IR•WV•VIS
NOAA•HRPT (McMurdo only)•GAC (Project FROST/by request)•LAC (Iceberg)
NCEP•GFS•WWFM
METAR METAR (McMurdo area & South Pole)
South Pole
Met Office (UK)
PIREP/AIREP TAF (McMurdo Area)
Palmer
UW & SPAWAR
AWS Data
ECMWF
(Europe)
Synoptic
(US and ABoM)
AIREP
(New Zealand Region)
McMurdo
GMS/GOES Satellite wind charts
(Courtesy of CIMSS)
DMSP•OLS•SSM/I
(Real time only)
AMPS
(Real time only)
Radiosonde USAP Ship SITREPS
Including NCDC Data holding up to 1998
CRAS
(Coming soon)
Ship & Buoy
Real-time AWS
Decoder
Decoding all Antarctic ARGOS transmitting AWS !!
(except Australian AWS - will likely be able to do 2 of 4 types)
AMRC/AWS & WMO/NCDC
• Tom Peterson, NCDC SSD– AWS data for NCDC records– Discussion of computing averages…– Impact for South Pole, Palmer, others?
• Richard Thigpen, GCOS Secretariat – CLIMAT format for AWS data…– Testing beta software now– Handling non-WMO ID AWS sites?
Future Activities
• Continue AMRC traditional activities• Continue climatological work
– AWS, Other stations– Special work with South Pole & Palmer?
• Case studies– More to do– Special fog collection
• Experimental study of precipitation – Ross Ice Shelf & Ross Sea sector– Use of microwave data– Compare to in situ measurements via
• AWS ADG and model output (e.g.UW-NWS)
• Continued Cloud Mass Transport (CMT) studies• LDM for he USAP?
– For the discussion later today or tomorrow?
• More…
E-mail Lists: Please Join Today!• ANTAWS - Information and updates on AWS data• ANTOBS - Information and updates on all other observational
datasets• ANTOPS - Notices on AMRC’s real-time data availability,
distribution and status• ANTICEBERG - Notices on latest Iceberg monitoring images
posted to the web site• ANTCOMMUNITY - Infrequent notices to the Antarctic
community on events and significant developments
E-mail: amrc@ssec.wisc.edu to join!
Questions and AnswersThank you to NSF/OPP
• E-mail– amrc@ssec.wisc.edu
– aws@ssec.wisc.edu
• Web– http://amrc.ssec.wisc.edu
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• FTP– ftp://amrc.ssec.wisc.edu
– ftp://ice.ssec.wisc.edu
• Phone– (608) 262-0436
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• FAX– (608) 263-6738
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Madison, WI 53706 USA