Georgia Coastal Ecosystems LTER Data Set Details

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Accession:

MET-GCEM-0109

Research Theme:

Meteorology (Monitoring)

Contributors:

Wade M. Sheldon Jr., Jane Garbisch

Title:

Daily climatological observations from Sapelo Island, Georgia, from May 1957 through July 2001

Abstract:

Daily summaries of air temperature and precipitation were collected from the National Weather Service weather station on Sapelo Island, Georgia, from May 1957 through July 2001. The station (NWS Station 97808) is located at the University of Georgia Marine Institute (UGAMI), and has been in continuous operation since 1957. Observations are logged and transmitted to the NWS by UGAMI personnel, and archived by the NOAA National Climatic Data Center (http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/). The monitoring station is described on the Georgia Coastal Ecosystems web site at http://gce-lter.marsci.uga.edu/lter/research/mon/ugami.htm.

DOI:

10.6073/pasta/ef321ee87ecfbf57a91108e2387b7235

Key Words:

atmosphere, climate, Climate Monitoring, meteorology, monitoring, precipitation, rainfall, seasonality, temperature

LTER Core Area:

Other Site Research

Research Themes:

GCE2 Q1 - External Forcing, GCE3 Area1 - Drivers of Change, Meteorology

Study Period:

01-May-1957 to 31-Jul-2001

Study Sites:

UGAMI -- UGA Marine Institute, Sapelo Island, Georgia, USA

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Project References:

Climate monitoring

Downloads:

Data Table: MET-GCEM-0109 (Main data table for data set MET-GCEM-0109, 14915 records)

Access: Public (released 13-Sep-2001)

Metadata: Text (ESA FLED), XML (Ecological Metadata Language)

Data Formats: Spreadsheet (CSV) [542.07kb], Text File [546.48kb], MATLAB (GCE Toolbox) [749.15kb], MATLAB (Variables) [721.91kb], Text Report [633.99kb]

Column List:(hide)

Column	Name	Units	Type	Description
1	Year	YYYY	integer	Calendar year (AD)
2	Month	MM	integer	Calendar month
3	Day	DD	integer	Calendar day
4	Daily_AirTemp_Max	°C	floating-point	Maximum daily air temperature
5	Daily_AirTemp_Min	°C	floating-point	Minimum daily air temperature
6	Daily_AirTemp_Obs	°C	floating-point	Air temperature at the time of observation (0900-1000 EST)
7	Daily_AirTemp_Mean	°C	floating-point	Estimated mean daily air temperature (average of daily maximum, minimum)
8	Daily_Precip_Total	mm	floating-point	Daily precipitation
9	Provisional	none	integer	Provisional data status in the NCDC database

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Citation:

Sheldon, Wade M. 2001. Daily climatological observations from Sapelo Island, Georgia, from May 1957 through July 2001. Georgia Coastal Ecosystems LTER Project, University of Georgia, Long Term Ecological Research Network. http://dx.doi.org/10.6073/pasta/ef321ee87ecfbf57a91108e2387b7235

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