The AntAWS dataset: a compilation of Antarctic automatic weather station observations

Wang, Yetang; Zhang, Xueying; Ning, Wentao; Lazzara, Matthew A.; Ding, Minghu; Reijmer, Carleen H.; Smeets, Paul C. J. P.; Grigioni, Paolo; Heil, Petra; Thomas, Elizabeth R.; Mikolajczyk, David; Welhouse, Lee J.; Keller, Linda M.; Zhai, Zhaosheng; Sun, Yuqi; Hou, Shugui

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-411-2023

Articles | Volume 15, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-411-2023

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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-411-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 15, issue 1

Data description paper

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24 Jan 2023

Data description paper |

| 24 Jan 2023

The AntAWS dataset: a compilation of Antarctic automatic weather station observations

Yetang Wang, Xueying Zhang, Wentao Ning, Matthew A. Lazzara, Minghu Ding, Carleen H. Reijmer, Paul C. J. P. Smeets, Paolo Grigioni, Petra Heil, Elizabeth R. Thomas, David Mikolajczyk, Lee J. Welhouse, Linda M. Keller, Zhaosheng Zhai, Yuqi Sun, and Shugui Hou

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CC1:
'Comment on essd-2022-241', Ian Allison, 19 Aug 2022

See attached comments from ian.allison@utas.edu.au

Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2022-241-CC1
- AC6: 'Reply on CC1', Yetang Wang, 04 Nov 2022
  
  Dear Ian Allison,
  Thank you for the thorough review and useful comments and suggestions. Please see our point-to-point response attached.
  Best regards,
  Yetang Wang, on hehalf of all authors
  
  Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2022-241-AC6
RC1:
'Comment on essd-2022-241', Chang-Qing Ke, 30 Aug 2022

This paper provides a new quality-controlled dataset of meteorological records from Antarctic automatic weather stations (AntAWS dataset) at 3-hourly, daily and monthly resolutions. The dataset compiles the measurements of air temperature, air pressure, relative humidity, and wind speed and direction from 216 AWSs available during 1980-2021. This dataset will be valuable for better characterizing surface climatology throughout the continent of Antarctica, improving our understanding of Antarctic surface snow-atmosphere interactions, and estimating regional climate models or meteorological reanalysis products. It can be published after minor revision.

Fig.1’s resolution is too low, should be replaced with high quality pictures.

Fig.2 with same problem, very low resolution.

Fig.3 should add some main location names.

Fig.5’s caption should add full names which have abbreviations on the maps, for example, Tmax means maximum temperature, etc.

P4 L143-144, ‘snow height’ should be ‘snow depth’.

Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2022-241-RC1
- AC2: 'Reply on RC1', Yetang Wang, 04 Nov 2022
  
  Dear Changqing,
  Thank you for the thorough review and useful comments and suggestions. Please see our point-to-point response attached.
  Best regards,
  Yetang Wang, on hehalf of all authors
  
  Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2022-241-AC2
CC2:
'Comment on essd-2022-241', Christophe Genthon, 13 Sep 2022

The comment was uploaded in the form of a supplement: https://essd.copernicus.org/preprints/essd-2022-241/essd-2022-241-CC2-supplement.pdf

Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2022-241-CC2
- AC3: 'Reply on CC2', Yetang Wang, 04 Nov 2022
  
  Dear Christophe Genthon,
  Thank you for the thorough review and useful comments and suggestions. Please see our point-to-point response attached.
  Best regards,
  Yetang Wang, on hehalf of all authors
  
  Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2022-241-AC3
CC3:
'Comment on essd-2022-241', Ting Wei, 21 Sep 2022

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Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2022-241-CC3
- AC1: 'Reply on CC3', Yetang Wang, 04 Nov 2022
  
  Dear Wei,
  Thank you for reviewing our manuscript. But we can't find the attachment of comments anywhere. We hope you can upload the attachment again, and then we will carefully response to your each comment and suggestion.
  Best regard,
  Yetang Wang, on behalf of all authors
  
  Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2022-241-AC1
RC2:
'Comment on essd-2022-241', Christoph Kittel, 03 Oct 2022

See the attached file.

Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2022-241-RC2
- RC3:
  'Aditionnal comments', Christoph Kittel, 04 Oct 2022
  
  It seems that aws04 to aws17 stations are not included in the provided link. Is this an oversight or intentional?
  
  Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2022-241-RC3
  - AC5: 'Reply on RC3', Yetang Wang, 04 Nov 2022
    
    Dear Christoph Kittel,
    We are very sorry for our negligence of non-upload to the platform, and we will upload them, which are included in the updated AntAWS dataset based on the improved quality control criteria.
    Best regards,
    Yetang Wang, on hehalf of all authors
    
    Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2022-241-AC5
- AC4: 'Reply on RC2', Yetang Wang, 04 Nov 2022
  
  Dear Christoph Kittel,
  Thank you for the thorough review and useful comments and suggestions. Please see our point-to-point response attached.
  Best regards,
  Yetang Wang, on hehalf of all authors
  
  Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2022-241-AC4

Peer review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision | EF: Editorial file upload

AR by Yetang Wang on behalf of the Authors (01 Dec 2022) Author's response Author's tracked changes Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (02 Dec 2022) by David Carlson

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (11 Dec 2022)

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (29 Dec 2022) by David Carlson

AR by Yetang Wang on behalf of the Authors (06 Jan 2023) Author's response Manuscript

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Here we construct a new database of Antarctic automatic weather station (AWS) meteorological records, which is quality-controlled by restrictive criteria. This dataset compiled all available Antarctic AWS observations, and its resolutions are 3-hourly, daily and monthly, which is very useful for quantifying spatiotemporal variability in weather conditions. Furthermore, this compilation will be used to estimate the performance of the regional climate models or meteorological reanalysis products.