Network Update October 2010

The network's organization and data dissemination have recently changed. This page summarizes these changes.

Network reorganization

Effective 30-April 2009, the arrangement between the National Science Foundation and Biospherical Instruments (BSI) to operate the NSF UV Monitoring Network came to an end and the network was reorganized.

• The Arctic sites, Barrow and Summit, are now part of the NSF Arctic Observing Network (http://www.aoncadis.org). BSI continues to be responsible for operation and data processing. Weekly updates of preliminary data are available here.
  See data dissemination for access to final data.
   
• Operation of the systems at South Pole, McMurdo, and Palmer is now overseen by NOAA's Global Monitoring Division (http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/).

  NOAA/GMD is currently expanding their website at http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/grad/antuv/ to include information and data from these sites in the near future. BSI continues to prepare and quality-control data of the three sites. Preliminary data are currently not available.
  See data dissemination for access to final data.
   

• Operation of the instrument at Ushuaia ended in November 2008. It is currently unknown if measurements at this site will resume.
   
• The instruments at San Diego continues to operate and preliminary data are available here. There are currently no plans to produce final data for this site.

Data dissemination

The project's web address has changed to

Please update your bookmarks; however, you will be routed to this new address via the old URL.

This new site home has the same content as before, and will be regularly updated to include the latest data. Registered users can login to retrieve data using their existing username and password.

Data of the network are now also available from the following repositories:

• World Ozone and UV Data Center (WOUDC);
  http://www.woudc.org
  (Data from all sites)
   
• Advanced Cooperative Arctic Data and Information Service (ACADIS);
  http://www.aoncadis.org
  (Data from Barrow and Summit only)
   
• NOAA Antarctic UV Monitoring Network;
  http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/grad/antuv/
  (Antarctic data from 2010 onward)
   
• Data archive of the Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Composition Change (NDACC);
  http://www.ndsc.ncep.noaa.gov
  (Data from all sites but San Diego)
   
• SeaWiFS Bio-optical Archive and Storage System (SeaBASS);
  http://seabass.gsfc.nasa.gov
  (Data from all sites up to 2009)