Arctic Climatology Project - EWG Arctic Meteorology and Climate Atlas

Data Contributors ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE (AARI), ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA Parameters AIR TEMPERATURE CLOUD AMOUNT/FREQUENCY HUMIDITY INCOMING SOLAR RADIATION LONGWAVE RADIATION NET RADIATION PRECIPITATION AMOUNT SEA LEVEL PRESSURE SNOW SNOW DEPTH SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT SOLAR RADIATION SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURE SURFACE WINDS > wind speed Instruments ANEROID PRESSURE SENSOR BAROMETERS HYGROMETERS PSYCHROMETERS THERMOMETERS VISUAL OBSERVATIONS WET BULB THERMOMETERS

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The Environmental Working Group (EWG) was established in June 1995 under the framework of the U.S.-Russian Joint Commission on Economic and Technological Cooperation. In January 1996, the EWG Arctic Climatology Group took on the task of compiling digital data on arctic regions to expand scientific understanding of the Arctic. This work resulted in a set of three atlases on CD-ROM for arctic oceanography, sea ice, and meteorology.

The Arctic Meteorology and Climate Atlas was developed by specialists from the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI), St. Petersburg, Russia, the University of Washington, Seattle, and the National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado, Boulder. The Atlas contains three main sections: a history section, a 'Primer,' and a data section. The history section and Primer provide background and introductory information for newcomers to arctic meteorology, while the data section contains gridded fields of meteorological parameters, and newly released meteorological station data from Russian and other sources. In addition, the Atlas includes several English translations of Russian technical documents, and a glossary of meteorological terms in English and Russian.

Users can order the CD-ROM free of charge from NSIDC User Services Office. NSIDC also distributes the EWG Joint U.S.-Russian Atlas of the Arctic Ocean (Winter and Summer periods on two CD-ROMs), and the EWG Joint U.S.-Russian Arctic Sea Ice Atlas free of charge. The CD-ROMs are in HTML format.

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Data Citation

Arctic Climatology Project. 2000. Environmental Working Group Arctic meteorology and climate atlas. Edited by F. Fetterer and V. Radionov. Boulder, CO: National Snow and Ice Data Center. CD-ROM.

See Also

• Arctic Climatology and Meteorology PRIMER for Newcomers to the North
• The Environmental Working Group Arctic Atlases on CD-ROM
• Snow Water Equivalent Field Measurements
• Meteorological Data from the Russian Arctic, 1961-2000
• Daily Precipitation Sums at Coastal and Island Russian Arctic Stations, 1940-1990
• Monthly Mean Precipitation Sums at Russian Arctic Stations, 1966-1990
• Contact User Services