Metadata

Station or cluster: Contributing Station
WMO ID (if any): 1007
Shape: point
Latitude, longitude: 78.92, 11.93
Altitude and/or range (m): 8
Landscape: Tundra
Year established: 1991
Year-round? Yes
Operations contact:
Science contact: Hiroyuki Enomoto
Data contact: Hironori Yabuki
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Rabben Station in Ny-Alesund
Contributing Station Information

The Rabben Station was established in 1991 at Ny-Alesund on Spitsbergen Island, Svalbard Islands. The station has engaged in the observations of clouds, aerosols, radiation, aurora, greenhouse gases, vegetation distributions and ecosystem studies within the international cooperative observation system in Ny-Åiesund.

Other Networks to Which This Contributing Station Belongs

AERC (http://www.nipr.ac.jp/aerc/e/index.html)

Measurement Methods Used

WMO Technical Regulations

Data Information

Are the data quality controlled? No
How are the data accessible? an existing data center
Data availability (may depend on the variable measured): in near real-time, delayed less than one year

Publications

See http://www.nipr.ac.jp/aerc/e/index.html

Additional Information Documents

Additional information, document 1

Measurements

The measurements made at Rabben Station in Ny-Alesund are listed in the following tables. (Note: If End Year is blank, measurements are ongoing.)

Cryosphere Measurements

Element	Variable	Frequency
Glacier	Accumulation	Sporadic
Glacier	Annual mass balance	Sporadic
Glacier	Velocity	Sporadic
Glacier	Surface topography	Sporadic
Glacier	Facies, snowline	Sporadic

Atmosphere Measurements

Element	Variable	Start Year	End Year	Frequency
Met	Trace gases			Continuous
Met	Aerosols			Continuous

Measurement Notes and Other Measurements

Category	Description or List
Atmosphere	sky-radiometer, all-sky camera, micro-pulse lidar, cloud radar, ground-based spectral albedo and flux radiometer, trace gases (CO2, CH4, N2O, SF6 and O2)

Last updated: 29 November 2017