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Quality-controlled meteorological datasets from SIGMA automatic weather stations in northwest Greenland, 2012–2020
Motoshi Nishimura
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National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo, Japan
Teruo Aoki
National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo, Japan
Masashi Niwano
Meteorological Research Institute, Japan Meteorological Agency, Ibaraki, Japan
Sumito Matoba
Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, Hokkaido, Japan
Tomonori Tanikawa
Meteorological Research Institute, Japan Meteorological Agency, Ibaraki, Japan
Tetsuhide Yamasaki
Avangnaq Arctic Project, Osaka, Japan
Satoru Yamaguchi
Snow and Ice Research Center, National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience, Niigata, Japan
Koji Fujita
Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
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We presented the method of data quality checks and the dataset for two ground weather observations in northwest Greenland. We found that the warm and clear weather conditions in the 2015, 2019, and 2020 summers caused the snowmelt and the decline in surface reflectance of solar radiation at a low-elevated site (SIGMA-B; 944 m), but those were not seen at the high-elevated site (SIGMA-A; 1490 m). We hope that our data management method and findings will help climate scientists.
We presented the method of data quality checks and the dataset for two ground weather...
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