Alaska Snow, Water and Climate WebNews

November 5, 2005 - Alaska Snow Teams with Alaska Ocean Observing System (AOOS)

Alaska Snow personnel and contractors have been very busy this summer, installing a number of new sensor sites in and around Prince William Sound, in cooperation with the Alaska Ocean Observing System. These new data sites include both high elevation, and sea level telemetry sites. While most of these new sites tranport sensor data with SNOTEL's traditional meteor burst comunication system (AMBCS), several new sites transport their sensor data via Starband, a real-time, broadband satellite communication system. Several of these new Starband data stations are also providing real-time weather camera images. New sites installed this summer include Mt. Eyak, Port San Juan, Tatitlek, Esther Island and Nuchek. Several more new sites will be installed next summer. A number of existing SNOTEL sites in south-central Alaska have also been cooperativley incorporated into AOOS.

June 15, 2005 - Daily Summary Archive Online

Online access to our entire daily summary database is now available in columnar form! If you need SNOTEL daily records from past years, click here for instant access!

December 14, 2004 - Graphical Data Online

Online graphical data plots are now available. You can generate graphical plots for the entire wateryear of data for most telemetry sites within AMBCS. Click here to give it a try!

May 28, 2003 - Clickable Site Maps

We are working on our clickable site maps that some of you may have become accustomed to.  At the present time, only current site data is available via our clickable Site Map.  Watch this news page for updates to this system.  We are working toward a single map from which nearly all of our data types will be available.

May 26, 2003 - Meta Data Online for Telemetry Sites

We are now publishing more complete meta data for Alaska telemetry sites on this server.  Information describing in detail, sensors and how data collection techniques are now being published on the web, and can be readily viewed with the Site Data Viewer.  Select the Meta Data radio button to view the new information.  We would appreciate your feedback on these new pages.

April 23, 2003 - Entire Water Year Now Available on Web Pages

By popular request, the entire water year of daily summaries for Alaskan telemetry (SNOTEL) sites is now posted on our web pages.  These new reports replace the previous fourteen day daily summary reports you may have grown accustomed to.   Our water year is defined as the period from October 1, through September 30 of the following calendar year.  We are currently in water year 2003.  Use our Site Data Viewer to browse data station reports.