A new automatic weather has been placed in Pyramiden.

An expedition from the Russian Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) have this summer placed an automatic weather station in Pyramiden, 60km north-east of Longyearbyen. The site has previously held an old Soviet weather station from 1947-1957.

The employment of the station is a direct result of the Protocol between the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation and the Norwegian Meteorological Institute on Cooperation in the field of Hydrometeorology. The weather station is a joint program between met.no and AARI.

Data from the station will be available after the first year, in August 2012. The data (air temperature, only) is currently accumulated in the internal storage of the AWS. There are plans to install a satellite connection allowing for real time data as well as extend the measurements to air temperature, humidity, wind, radiations a.o.

For more information please contact Dr. Boris Ivanov at AARI b_ivanov@aari.ru

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