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El Niño Rapid Response (ENRR) Field Campaign: Surface Meteorological Data from Kiritimati Island, January-March 2016 (NCEI Accession 0161526)

Published by NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce | Catalog Last Checked: June 28, 2026 at 08:03 PM | Dataset Last Updated: June 19, 2017 at 12:00 AM
This dataset contains surface meteorological data from Kiritimati (Christmas) Island, collected 25 January to 28 March 2016. These data have been corrected for known measurement issues when possible and replaced with bad/missing flags when that was not possible, and have been visually screened for physically unreasonable values. These data were collected at (2.01°N, 157.40°W), at an elevation of 3.6 m ASL (above sea level). The averaging/collection period is 2 minutes through 2016-02-11 04:05:43 UTC, and changes to 1 minute starting 2016-02-11 04:06:43 UTC. The following variables are reported: time at end of averaging or collection period (UTC); air_pressure (hPa); air_temperature (C); relative_humidity (%); wind_speed (m s-1); wind_from_direction (degree); wind_speed_of_gust (m s-1); rain (mm); battery_voltage (V). During January through March 2016, scientists led by the NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory's Physical Sciences Division conducted NOAA's El Niño Rapid Response (ENRR) Field Campaign. Its goal was to document the ongoing El Niño episode in great detail, and in ways that could help researchers better understand the ways in which this El Niño affected weather in the United States and the impact of various high-resolution observations on weather forecasts. Intensive observations were collected over the central and eastern Pacific ocean from land, ocean, and airborne platforms during the very strong 2015-2016 El Niño.

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0161526 AIR TEMPERATURE BAROMETRIC PRESSURE PRECIPITATION AMOUNT RELATIVE HUMIDITY WIND DIRECTION WIND GUST WIND SPEED

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title El Niño Rapid Response (ENRR) Field Campaign: Surface Meteorological Data from Kiritimati Island, January-March 2016 (NCEI Accession 0161526)

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