Metadata for a long-term climate series from the Russian meteorological station “Pyramiden” (1948-1957) at Svalbard ( Short Communication)

Abstract

Soviet weather station "Pyramiden" was located in the same mining settlement on the northern shore of the Mimer bukta (Billefjorden, West Spitsbergen Island). Research station operated from 1948 to 1957, as a branch of Barentsburg research observatory (Grnfjorden, West Spitsbergen Island). It was the only station that held regular meteorological observations in the inland areas of the archipelago. Observational data (in the form of handwritten books and tables) are preserved in state fond of Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI, St. Petersburg, Russia). So far, these data have not been digitized and with their help not conducted any climate researches. Fruitful scientific collaboration between MET-Norway (Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Oslo) and AARI helped preserve these unique data to the polar scientific community. Now specialists-climatologists of both institutions complete joint climate researches that in the near future will be available to scientists, studying modern climate changes in the polar regions of the Earth.

Air temperature variations and gradients along the coast and fjords of western Spitsbergen

“…The most essential information about the data and the meteorological stations is presented in Table 1. Here the metadata will be presented only briefly as there have been many earlier papers that have quite comprehensive descriptions (Steffensen 1969;Nordli et al 1996;Steffensen et al 1996;Førland et al 1997;Nordli 2010;Ivanov et al 2014;Nordli et al 2014).…”