Articles | Volume 14, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-4995-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-4995-2022
Data description paper
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11 Nov 2022
Data description paper |  | 11 Nov 2022

Enhanced automated meteorological observations at the Canadian Arctic Weather Science (CAWS) supersites

Zen Mariani, Laura Huang, Robert Crawford, Jean-Pierre Blanchet, Shannon Hicks-Jalali, Eva Mekis, Ludovick Pelletier, Peter Rodriguez, and Kevin Strawbridge

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Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) commissioned two supersites in Iqaluit (64°N, 69°W) and Whitehorse (61°N, 135°W) to provide new and enhanced automated and continuous altitude-resolved meteorological observations as part of the Canadian Arctic Weather Science (CAWS) project. These observations are being used to test new technologies, provide recommendations to the optimal Arctic observing system, and evaluate and improve the performance of numerical weather forecast systems.