urn.x-wmo.md.ch.meteoswiss.gawsis..70400000010_mole_fraction_of_carbon_monoxide_in_air_x1h_BRW_unknown en utf8 MeteoSwiss Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss +41 (0)44 256 92 23 +41 (0)44 256 92 78 Krähbühlstrasse 58 Zürich ZH 8044 Switzerland gawsis@meteoswiss.ch http://gaw.empa.ch/gawsis/ custodian 2013-08-07 ISO 19115:2003/19139 1.0 WGS 84 World Geodetic System mole_fraction_of_carbon_monoxide_in_air values from station Barrow (AK) (GAWID=BRW) (data generation: unknown, reporting interval: 1 Hour(s)) 2001-08-29 revision Time series of CO measurements (type:Reactive Gas) at Global Atmosphere Watch station Barrow (AK) (station type: Global). Measurements are generated at an unknown interval. The measurement interval is 1 Hour(s). The measurement method is GC-HgO reduction/UV absorption. Barrow Observatory, established in 1973, is located near sea level 8 km east of Barrow, Alaska at 71.32 degrees north. This facility is manned year around by 2 engineers/scientists who often commute to work in winter on snow machines. Due to its unique location, dedicated and highly trained staff, excellent power and communications infrastructure, the Barrow Observatory is host to numerous cooperative research projects from around the world.BRW is located so that it receives minimal influence from anthropogenic effects. It is about 8 km northeast of the village of Barrow and has a prevailing east-northeast wind off the Beaufort Sea. It is attended at least 5 days a week for routine inspection and maintenance of the instrumentation. In addition, the National Weather Service (NWS) maintains a weather observing facility in Barrow. Although the measurements at Barrow are made over open tundra, there are large lagoons and a number of lakes in the vicinity, and the Arctic Ocean is less than 3 km northwest of the site. Because of its proximity to these bodies of water and the fact that the prevailing winds are off the Beaufort Sea, BRW is perhaps best characterized as having an Arctic maritime climate affected by variations of weather and sea ice conditions in the Central Arctic. pointOfContact atmospheric composition chemistry physics theme WMO keyword list, version 1.0 2008-09-23 publication atmosphericComposition theme WMO_CategoryCode 2012-09-15 publication Reactive Gas::mole_fraction_of_carbon_monoxide_in_air theme textTable en iso-8859-1 climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere The bounding box covers the country where dataset was acquired. United States IV - North/Central America Barrow (AK) -178.214202880859 18.5368919372559 -48.4668121337891 71.4066467285156 11 11 m above sea levelWGS84dataset string physicalMeasurement WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link mole_fraction_of_carbon_monoxide_in_air values from station Barrow (AK) (GAWID=BRW) (data generation: unknown, reporting interval: 1 Hour(s)) series The data is subject to quality control according to specific procedures of the data originator. No additional information can be given at this point. The data might further be quality controlled by the GAW WDC, see quality flags.