Six- and Three-Hourly Meteorological Observations from 223 U.S.S.R. Stations (1998)
V. N. Razuvayev, E. G. Apasova, and R. A. Martuganov
DOI: 10.3334/CDIAC/cli.ndp048
This database contains 6- and 3-hourly meteorological observations from a
223-station network of the former Soviet Union. These data have been made
available through cooperation between the two principal climate data centers
of the United States and the former Soviet Union: the National Climatic Data
Center (NCDC), in Asheville, North Carolina, and the All-Russian Research
Institute of Hydrometeorological Information--World Data Centre (RIHMI-WDC) in
Obninsk, Russia.
The first version of this database extended through the mid-1980s (ending year
dependent upon station) and was made available in 1995 by the Carbon Dioxide
Information Analysis Center (CDIAC) as NDP-048. This update of the database
includes data through 1990. Station records consist of 6- and 3-hourly
observations of some 24 meteorological variables including temperature, past
and present weather type, precipitation amount, cloud amount and type, sea
level pressure, relative humidity, and wind direction and speed. The 6-hourly
observations extend from 1936 through 1965; the 3-hourly observations extend
from 1966 through 1990. These data have undergone extensive quality assurance
checks by RIHMI-WDC, NCDC, and CDIAC. The database represents a wealth of
meteorological information for a large and climatologically important portion
of the earth's land area, and should prove extremely useful for a wide
variety of regional climate change studies.
This NDP consists of a printed document detailing the initial version of the
database that extended through the mid-1980s, 15 updated data retrieval and
documentation files, and 223 data files updated through 1990 (one per station;
~2.9 gigabytes in uncompressed form) that are available via the
Internet through CDIAC's Web site or anonymous FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
server, and upon request, various magnetic media.
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