• Italian Antarctic Data Center
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Automatic Weather Station systems - Antarctic Meteoclimatic Observatory in MZS and Victoria Land

The Observatory main purpose is to contribute to the monitoring of global climate change. Standard meteorological parameters are monitored and additional data are obtained by measures of snow transport and accumulation in localities of scientific interest.The monitoring network consists of 16 automatic weather stations (AWS) operating all the year, round.They are setted in the area between 'Mario Zucchelli Station' (MZS, 74 ° 41 ‘S - 164° 05’ E), the French-Italian 'Concordia' base (DC, 75 ° S, 123 ° E) on the Antarctic Plateau and the French base Dumont’Urville (DDU, 66 ° 40’S - 140 ° 01’E) towards Wilkes Land.


At OASI laboratories a laser rain gauge, an all sky camera and a Micro-Rain-Radar were maintained and left working during winter season. In OASI surroundings were installed a new ceilometer (VAISALA CL51) for cloud base measurement up to 15 km and a Total Rain weighing Sensor TRwS for snow precipitations.

Simple

Identification info

Date (Publication)
2019-12-30

Identifier

Code
PNRA14_00019 - OSS09: AWS MZS-VICTORIA LAND http://geonetwork.casaccia.enea.it:8089/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/e7da4aee-c2a3-4fb6-883f-027704a9aac3
Status
On going

Principal investigator

ENEA - Paolo Grigioni (coordinator / researcher)
ENEA Centro della Casaccia - Via Anguillarese, 301
Roma
00123
Italy
0630486595 ()
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Spatial representation type
Text, table

Spatial resolution

Equivalent scale

Denominator
1
Temporal resolution
P0Y0M0DT1H0M0S
Topic category
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Extent

N
S
E
W


Maintenance and update frequency
Periodic
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Atmospheric conditions
  • Meteorological geographical features
  • Protected sites
GCMD - Science Keywords
  • TROPOSPHERIC/LOW LEVEL CLOUDS (OBSERVED/ANALYZED)
  • WEATHER/CLIMATE ADVISORIES
  • WEATHER RESEARCH/FORECAST MODELS
NASA Thesaurus
  • temperature
  • wind direction
  • meteorological parameters
  • solar radiation
  • weather data recorders
  • wind velocity
  • pressure
  • troposphere
  • humidity
GCMD - Instruments
  • SOLARIMETERS
  • AWS
  • BAROMETERS
  • THERMOMETERS
  • Hygrometers
  • WIND PROFILERS
GCMD - Providers
  • IT/PNRA
GCMD - Locations
  • ANTARCTICA
Gazetteer of Antarctica
  • Victoria Land
  • Terra Nova Bay
  • Mario Zucchelli Station

Resource constraints

Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
Climantartide data use constraints

Resource constraints

Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
Climantartide data access constraints

Associated resource

Title
PNRA project OSS-09 Antarctic Observatory Meteo-climatic in MSZ and in Victoria Land

Identifier

Code
PNRA14_00019
Association Type
Dependency
Initiative Type
Project

Associated resource

Title
XXXIV Expedition PNRA Italian Campaign to Antarctica
Date (Validity Begins)
2018-11-01
Date (Validity Expires)
2019-11-01
Edition
XXXIV Expedition 2018-2019

Identifier

Code
XXXIV Campaign
Association Type
Dependency
Initiative Type
Campaign
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Distribution Information

Distribution format
  • Text

OnLine resource
AWS Stations

OnLine resource
AWS Database

Data quality info

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Report

Result

Title
COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Explanation
This data set is conformant with the INSPIRE Implementing Rules for the interoperability of spatial data sets and services
Pass
true

Resource lineage

Statement
Meteoclimatic monitoring, data acquisition for research, and data entry in the global network (GTS) of the world organization for meteorology (WMO) for the implementation of meteorological models.
Hierarchy level
Dataset

Reference System Information

Identifier

Code
WGS84
Hierarchy level
Dataset

Instrument

Identifier

Code
AWS Alessandra
Type
Vaisala Milos 520

Instrument

Identifier

Code
AWS Arelis - WMO Number: 89666
Type
Vaisala Milos 200
Description
10m

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/e7da4aee-c2a3-4fb6-883f-027704a9aac3

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Point of contact

ENEA - Chiara Ripa
Parent metadata
  • Antarctic Meteoclimatic Observatory in Mario Zucchelli and Victoria Land

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset
Metadata linkage
http://geonetwork.casaccia.enea.it:8089/srv/api/records/e7da4aee-c2a3-4fb6-883f-027704a9aac3

Date info (Revision)
2021-05-05T08:07:54
Date info (Creation)
2020-05-25T10:12:00

Metadata standard

Title
ISO 19115-3
 
 

Overviews

Spatial extent

N
S
E
W


Keywords

GCMD - Instruments
AWS BAROMETERS Hygrometers SOLARIMETERS THERMOMETERS WIND PROFILERS
GCMD - Locations
ANTARCTICA
GCMD - Providers
IT/PNRA
GCMD - Science Keywords
TROPOSPHERIC/LOW LEVEL CLOUDS (OBSERVED/ANALYZED) WEATHER RESEARCH/FORECAST MODELS WEATHER/CLIMATE ADVISORIES
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Atmospheric conditions Meteorological geographical features Protected sites
NASA Thesaurus
humidity meteorological parameters pressure solar radiation temperature troposphere weather data recorders wind direction wind velocity

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