Synoptic Observations at Neumayer
Synoptic observations are carried out routinely every 3 hours. They include measurements of air temperature (at 2 m height), air pressure (values are reduced to mean sea level), wind vector (at 10 m height), dew point temperature (at 2 m height), clouds (cloud amount, type and height), horizontal visibility, present and past weather and snowdrift.
The full program is carried out at 0, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21 UTC. During night time at 3 and 6 UTC the visual observations are omitted. The data is coded (FM12-SYNOP) and transferred directly to the Global Telecommunication System (GTS) by email where they contribute to weather forecasting.
Real Time Data
A permanent data link to Neumayer is available since March 1999. The following products can be accessed in real time:
- web-cam pictures,
- current meteorological conditions,
- meteorological conditions of today (updates every 30 minutes),
- meteorological conditions of yesterday,
- latest 3-hourly routine synoptic observations (plain FM-12-code),
- latest noaa satellite pictures received at Neumayer (updates twice a day).
Archiving and Retrieving Data
At AWI the routine 3-hourly weather observation are archived together with the data from the daily upper air soundings and surface radiation measurements in a relational database (SYBASE). Synoptic data are available since 28 January 1981. Current observations normally reach the database once a month.
News about the status of the database can be found here.
Publications
The meteorological data of Neumayer Station are published in the Reports on Polar Research:
- Volume 30 (1981, 1982),
- Volume 38 (1983, 1984),
- Volume 64 (1985, 1986, 1987),
- Volume 116 (1988, 1989, 1990, 1991),
- Volume 187 (1992, 1993, 1994).
All reports are available from:
Alfred Wegener Institute
Foundation for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven
Postfach 12 0161
D-27515 Bremerhaven
Further data reports will not get published since all data are available interactively via this page.
As an example monthly and annual means and extremes for the years 1992-1994 are included in this page.