Radiosonde Observations from the Former Soviet "North Pole" Series of Drifting Ice Stations, 1954-90

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 80, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 2019-2026

  Kahl, Jonathan D W ^a   Zaitseva, Nina A ^b   Khattatov, V ^b   Schnell, R C ^c   Bacon, Dina M ^a   Bacon, Jason ^a   Radionov, V ^d   Serreze, M C ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b CENTRAL AEROLOGICAL OBSERVATORY   (Russian Federation)

^c EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0008827184     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(1999)080<2019:ROFTFS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, 1959: Observational Data of the Drifting Scientific Research Stations "North Pole-4" and "North Pole-5" for the Years 1956/57 (in Russian). Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, 951 pp.
2. _, 1960: Observational Data of the Drifting Scientific Research Stations "North Pole-6" and "North Pole-7" for the Years 19.57/58 (in Russian). Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute.
3. _, 1962: Trudy 249 of the Institute of of Arctic and Antarctic Research: Observational Data of the Drifting Scientific Research Stations "North Pole-6" and "North Pole-7" for the Years 1958/59 (in Russian). Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, 628 pp.
4. Belt, D., 1997: An Arctic breakthrough. National Geographic, 191, 36-57.
5. Crane, K., 1997: Rescuing the former Soviet Union's marine data. Eos, 78, 510.
6. Elliott, W. P., and D. J. Gaffen, 1991: On the utility of rawinsonde humidity archived for climate studies. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 72, 1507-1520.
7. Francis, J. A., and A. J. Schweiger, 1999: The NASA/NOAA TOYS Polar Pathfinder: 18 years of Arctic data. Proc. Fifth Conf. on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography, Dallas, TX, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 62-65.
8. Gaigerov, S. S., 1967: Aerology of the Polar Regions. Israel Program for Scientific Translations, 280 pp.
9. Kahl, J. D., M. C. Serreze, S. Shiotani, S. M. Skony, and R. C. Schnell, 1992: In situ meteorological sounding archives for Arctic studies. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 73, 1824-1830.
10. _, D. J. Charlevoix, N. A. Zaitseva, R. C. Schnell, and M. C. Serreze, 1993a: Absence of evidence for greenhouse warming over the Arctic Ocean in the past 40 years. Nature, 361, 335-337.
11. _, M. C. Serreze, R. S. Stone, S. Shiotani, M. Kisley, and R. C. Schnell, 1993b: Tropospheric temperature trends in the Arctic: 1958-1986. J. Geophys. Res., 98, 12 825-12 838.
12. _, D. A. Martinez, and N. A. Zaitseva, 1996: Long-term variability in the low-level inversion layer over the Arctic Ocean. Int. J. Climatol., 16, 1297-1313.
13. Kalnay, E., and Coauthors, 1996: The NCEP/NCAR 40-Year Reanalysis Project. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 77, 431-471.
14. National Snow and Ice Data Center, Applied Physics Laboratory, Polar Science Center, Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, 1996: Arctic Ocean snow and meteorological observations from drifting stations, 1937, 1950-1991. [Available from nsidc@kryos.colorado.edu.]
15. _, 1997a: Environmental Working Group, Joint U.S.-Russian Atlas of the Arctic Ocean. [Available on CD-ROM from nsidc@kryos.colorado.edu.]
16. _ 1997b: Daily Arctic Ocean rawinsonde data from Soviet drifting ice stations. [Available on CD-ROM from nsidc@ kryos.colorado.edu.]
17. Overland, J. E., and R. L. Colony, 1994: Geostrophic drag coefficients for the central Arctic derived from Soviet drifting station data. Tellus, 46A, 75-85.
18. Romanov, I. P., Yu. B. Konstantinov, and N. A. Kornilov, 1997: Ice Drift Stations "North Pole" (1937-1991) (in Russian). 2nd ed. Gidrometeoizdat, 226 pp.
19. Serreze, M. C., J. A. Maslanik, M. C. Rehder, R. C. Schnell, J. D. Kahl, and E. L. Andreas, 1992: Theoretical heights of buoyant convection above open leads in the winter Arctic peak ice cover. J. Geophys. Res., 97, 9411-9422.
20. _, R. G. Barry, and J. E. Walsh, 1995: Atmospheric water vapor characeristics at 70°N. J. Climate, 8, 719-731.
21. Skony, S. M., J. D. W. Kahl, and N. A. Zaitseva, 1994: Differences between radiosonde and dropsonde temperature profiles over the Arctic Ocean. J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 11, 1400-1408.
22. Tatusko, R. L., 1990: Cooperation in Climate Research: An Evaluation of the Activities Conducted Under the U.S.-USSR Agreement for Environmental Protection Since 1974. U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 121 pp.
23. Zaitseva, N. A., 1993: Historical developments in radiosonde systems in the former Soviet Union. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 74, 1893-1900.
24. _, S. M. Skony, and J. D. Kahl, 1996: Temperature inversions in the Western Arctic from radiosonde data. Meteor. Hydro., 6, 11-24.