A Data Base for Solar Terrestrial Surface Radiation over the Arctic Basin

这一探索性研究小额赠款项目将提供一个独特的数据库，用于获取和汇编北极盆地中部地区太阳和陆地表面辐射的现场每日平均测量数据。这些数据是从1950至1991年间的一系列苏联漂流冰站收集的。任何地方都不存在可比较的数据。圣彼得堡北极和南极研究所(AARI)的俄罗斯研究人员最近同意向美国调查人员提供这一独特的大型数据集。这些数据将从手写日志中调换出来，并以CD-ROM的形式存档，分发给美国学术界。这些数据具有与全球变化研究相关的多学科应用，包括气候学、海洋学、海冰研究、气象学、辐射传输、遥感和预报建模。将这些高质量和全面的俄罗斯信息尽快提供给美国研究界，对于规划新的美国北冰洋研究项目来说是及时的。

This Small Grants for Exploratory Research (SGER) project will provide for the access to and compilation of a unique data base of in situ, daily averaged measurements of solar and terrestrial surface radiation over the central Arctic Basin. These data were collected from a series of Soviet drifting ice stations from 1950 to 1991. No comparable data exists anywhere. Russian researchers from the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) in St. Petersburg have recently agreed to make this singular and large data set available to U.S. investigators. The data will be transposed from hand-written logs and archived on CD-ROM for distribution to the U.S. academic community. The data have multidisciplinary applications relevant to global change research, including climatology, oceanography, sea ice studies, meteorology, radiative transfer, remote sensing, and forecast modeling. Having this high quality and comprehensive Russian information available soon to the U.S. research community is timely for planning new U.S. Arctic Ocean research programs.