Research Article
Wind Climate in Kongsfjorden, Svalbard, and Attribution of Leading Wind Driving Mechanisms through Turbulence-Resolving Simulations
Table 1
Sources of the meteorological data in the Kongsfjorden-Kongsvegen valley.
| Station | Coordinates | Maintenance | Observations | Period |
| Ny-Ålesund | 8 m a.s.l. 78.9230 N 11.9333 E | WMO station 99910 [email protected] | Regular meteorological observations | 06.1974–to date | AWS 1 (Glacier margin) | 170 m a.s.l. | Institute of Meteorology and Geophysics Innsbruck (IMGI) and the Norwegian Polar Institute (NPI) | Temperature, wind speed and direction, relative humidity, global and reflected short-wave radiation, atmospheric and surface long-wave radiation | 05.2007–06.2008 | AWS 3 | 350 m a.s.l. | Obukhov Institute for Atmospheric Physics (IAP) and the Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, Utrecht University | The same; in addition 15 m gradient mast and a number of remote sensing instruments including SODAR were installed | 05.2009–to date | AWS 6 (equilibrium altitude of the glacier) | 550 m a.s.l. | Institute of Meteorology and Geophysics Innsbruck (IMGI) and the Norwegian Polar Institute (NPI) | The same | 05.2000–02.2006 05.2007–to date |
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