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The AntAWS dataset: a compilation of Antarctic automatic weather station observations
- 1College of Geography and Environment, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014, China
- 2Antarctic Meteorological Research Center, Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin—Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
- 3State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
- 4Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherland
- 5Laboratory for Measurements and Observations for Environment and Climate, ENEA, 00123 Rome, Italy
- 6British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK
- 7School of Oceanography, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China
- These authors contributed equally to this work.
- 1College of Geography and Environment, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014, China
- 2Antarctic Meteorological Research Center, Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin—Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
- 3State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
- 4Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherland
- 5Laboratory for Measurements and Observations for Environment and Climate, ENEA, 00123 Rome, Italy
- 6British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK
- 7School of Oceanography, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China
- These authors contributed equally to this work.
Abstract. A new dataset of meteorological records from Antarctic automatic weather stations (here called AntAWS dataset) at 3-hourly, daily and monthly resolutions is constructed with quality control. This dataset compiles the measurements of air temperature, air pressure, relative humidity, and wind speed and direction from 216 AWSs available during 1980–2021. Their spatial distribution remains heterogeneous, with a majority of instrumented sites located on the coastal areas, and less at the inland East Antarctic Plateau. Among the 216 AWSs, 55 of them have the records spanning more than 20 years, and 25 of them spanning more than 30 years. Among the five meteorological parameters, the air temperature measurement data have the best continuity and the highest data integrity. The comprehensive compilation of AWS observations has the main aim to make them easy and time-saving to be used for local, regional and continental studies, which can be accessed at https://doi.org/10.48567/key7-ch19 (Wang et al., 2022). 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.
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CC1: 'Comment on essd-2022-241', Ian Allison, 19 Aug 2022
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RC1: 'Comment on essd-2022-241', Chang-Qing Ke, 30 Aug 2022
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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’.
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CC2: 'Comment on essd-2022-241', Christophe Genthon, 13 Sep 2022
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The comment was uploaded in the form of a supplement: https://essd.copernicus.org/preprints/essd-2022-241/essd-2022-241-CC2-supplement.pdf
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CC3: 'Comment on essd-2022-241', Ting Wei, 21 Sep 2022
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AntAWS Dataset: A compilation of Antarctic automatic weather station observations. Wang, Y., Zhang, X., Ning, W., Lazzara, M. A., Ding, M., Reijmer C., Smeets P., Grigioni, P., Thomas, E. R., Zhai Z., Sun Y., and Hou, S. https://amrdcdata.ssec.wisc.edu/dataset/antaws-dataset
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