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AWS and AMRC Data Archive

The Automatic Weather Stations' Project and the Antarctic Meteorological Research Center archive many forms of meteorological data available for use by the scientific community and the public, free of charge. Users of the data are asked only to acknowledge the AWS or AMRC project appropriately, for anything produced or published that uses the data. Much of the AWS's and AMRC's data is provided online - via ftp or web, but some data has yet to be added to the Web, so feel free to ask for other types of data not listed below. To request data from the AWS project or the AMRC, please contact us at amrc@ssec.wisc.edu.

Satellite Derived Winds

Thanks to the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) here at the Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC), we have been archiving satellite derived winds from the water vapor channel of the GMS-5 satellite since 27 October 1997. We keep the past couple of days online, and past images are available on request. File names are constructed as follows: vaporYYYYMMDDHH.gif where "vapor" indicates they are the satellite derived winds from the water vapor channel, YYYY is the year, MM the month, DD the day, and HH the hour of the image in UTC. Thus the file "vapor2001041212.gif" would be from 12 UTC on April 12th, 2001. We also offer a regularly updated movie loop of these images.

We're archiving low-mid level infrared wind images, which are also provided to us by CIMSS. This archive began 10 June 1998. We keep the last couple of days online, and past images are available on request. File names are constructed as follows: cloudYYYYMMDDHH.gif where "cloud" indicates they are the low-mid level infrared wind images, YYYY is the year, MM the month, DD the day, and HH the hour of the image in UTC. Thus the file "cloud2001030921.gif" would be from 21 UTC on March 9th, 2001. We also offer a regularly updated movie loop of these images.

Antarctic Projects Archived Data


[Archived AWS Data]

[Satellite Composites]

[NOAA Polar Orbiting GAC and LAC Images]

[NCEP MRF Gridded Model Output]

[NCEP Wind & Wave Forecast Model]

   [Ship Reports]

[Radiosonde Observations]

[Synoptic and METAR Observations]

[Satellite Derived Winds]

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grants Nos. OPP-0537827, OPP-0338147, and OPP-0230028. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the National Science Foundation.