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El Niño Rapid Response (ENRR) Field Campaign: Surface Meteorological Data from Kiritimati Island, January-March 2016 (NCEI Accession 0161526)

Published by NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce | Metadata Last Checked: January 29, 2026 | Last Modified: 2017-06-19T00:00:00.000+00:00
This dataset contains surface meteorological data from Kiritimati (Christmas) Island, collected 25 January to 28 March 2016. These data have been corrected for known measurement issues when possible and replaced with bad/missing flags when that was not possible, and have been visually screened for physically unreasonable values. These data were collected at (2.01°N, 157.40°W), at an elevation of 3.6 m ASL (above sea level). The averaging/collection period is 2 minutes through 2016-02-11 04:05:43 UTC, and changes to 1 minute starting 2016-02-11 04:06:43 UTC. The following variables are reported: time at end of averaging or collection period (UTC); air_pressure (hPa); air_temperature (C); relative_humidity (%); wind_speed (m s-1); wind_from_direction (degree); wind_speed_of_gust (m s-1); rain (mm); battery_voltage (V). During January through March 2016, scientists led by the NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory's Physical Sciences Division conducted NOAA's El Niño Rapid Response (ENRR) Field Campaign. Its goal was to document the ongoing El Niño episode in great detail, and in ways that could help researchers better understand the ways in which this El Niño affected weather in the United States and the impact of various high-resolution observations on weather forecasts. Intensive observations were collected over the central and eastern Pacific ocean from land, ocean, and airborne platforms during the very strong 2015-2016 El Niño.

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0161526 AIR TEMPERATURE BAROMETRIC PRESSURE PRECIPITATION AMOUNT RELATIVE HUMIDITY WIND DIRECTION WIND GUST WIND SPEED anemometer barometric pressure sensor rain gauge temperature sensor meteorological NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory NOAA El Niño Rapid Response Field Campaign (ENRR) meteorology DOC/NOAA/OAR/ESRL/PSL > Physical Sciences Laboratory, Earth System Research Laboratory, OAR, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce ENRR > NOAA El Nino Rapid Response Field Campaign EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ALTITUDE EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE > SURFACE PRESSURE EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > SURFACE TEMPERATURE > AIR TEMPERATURE EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR INDICATORS > HUMIDITY EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR INDICATORS > HUMIDITY > RELATIVE HUMIDITY EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS > WIND DIRECTION EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS > WIND SPEED EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > PRECIPITATION AMOUNT EARTH SCIENCE > CLIMATE INDICATORS > ATMOSPHERIC/OCEAN INDICATORS > TELECONNECTIONS > EL NINO SOUTHERN OSCILLATION (ENSO) Atmosphere - Surface - Precipitation Atmosphere - Surface - Surface Pressure Atmosphere - Surface - Surface Temperature Atmosphere - Surface - Surface Water Vapour Atmosphere - Surface - Surface Wind Speed and Direction ANEMOMETERS > ANEMOMETERS BAROMETERS > BAROMETERS HUMIDITY SENSORS > HUMIDITY SENSORS RAIN GAUGES > RAIN GAUGES TEMPERATURE SENSORS > TEMPERATURE SENSORS ESRL STATIONS > NOAA Earth Science Research Laboratory Stations GEOGRAPHIC REGION > OCEANIA OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > CENTRAL PACIFIC OCEAN OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > CENTRAL PACIFIC OCEAN > KIRIBATI Point Resolution 1 minute - < 1 hour Point Resolution VERTICAL LOCATION > LAND SURFACE

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