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    • Historical Arctic and Antarctic Surface Observational Data, Version 1

    Metadata Updated: March 13, 2026

    This product consists of meteorological data from 105 Arctic weather stations and 137 Antarctic stations, extracted from the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC)'s Integrated Surface Hourly (ISH) database. Variables include wind direction, wind speed, visibility, air temperature, dew point temperature, and sea level pressure. Temporal coverage varies by station, with the earliest record in 1913 and the latest in 2002. Data are in tab-delimited ASCII text format, with one file per station and year. Graphs of meteorological variables throughout the time series accompany the ASCII data.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: See this page for license information.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date June 18, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date March 13, 2026

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date June 18, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date March 13, 2026
    Publisher NASA NSIDC DAAC
    Maintainer
    Identifier 10.5067/4DIN375AWFIO
    Data Last Modified 2026-03-10
    Category Earth Science
    Category Tag 16E15F51 D96E 4051 9124 75665Abdc6Ff "Arctic","Arctic Weather and Extreme Events"
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id ad15f242-ceb1-4825-a0ba-1289b324f06e
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    License https://www.usa.gov/government-works
    Old Spatial "CARTESIAN",{"WestBoundingCoordinate":0.0,"NorthBoundingCoordinate":-60.717,"EastBoundingCoordinate":178.72,"SouthBoundingCoordinate":-90.0},{"WestBoundingCoordinate":-73.167,"NorthBoundingCoordinate":83.633,"EastBoundingCoordinate":-13.583,"SouthBoundingCoordinate":59.983}
    Program Code 026:000
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 44e715f054c4383e4ef0dbfaf955e535576bb6a3caf8cffd66b27ba37f1b784c
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 1913-01-01/2002-12-31

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