Abstract:
Three micro-power Automatic Weather Stations (AWS) with two sonic ranging sensors were deployed at field-sites situated at Rothschild Island, Latady Island and Smyley Island in January 2005. The AWS instruments included a wind vane and two humicaps on the mast and two sonic ranging sensors mounted on separate horizontal scaffold poles.
The AWS data collected contributed to a project concerned with understanding how air mass origin and meteorology affect the mass accumulation of snow in areas of the Antarctic Peninsula, and how the atmosphere's properties are preserved in the snow.
Keywords:
air mass origin, atmospheric preservation, snow mass accumulation, sonic ranging sensors
| Access Constraints: | Requests for data can be made via the UK Polar Data Centre (UK PDC) at BAS. |
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| Creation Date: | 2007-11-20 |
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| Dataset Progress: | Complete |
| Dataset Language: | English |
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| Personnel: | |
| Name | Dr Gareth Marshall |
| Role(s) | Investigator |
| Organisation | British Antarctic Survey |
| Name | Dr Georgina Miles |
| Role(s) | Investigator |
| Organisation | British Antarctic Survey |
| Name | UK PDC |
| Role(s) | Metadata Author |
| Organisation | British Antarctic Survey |
| Name | Dr John Turner |
| Role(s) | Investigator |
| Organisation | British Antarctic Survey |
| Name | Dr Thomas Lachlan-Cope |
| Role(s) | Investigator |
| Organisation | British Antarctic Survey |
| Name | Dr Robert Mulvaney |
| Role(s) | Investigator |
| Organisation | British Antarctic Survey |
| Parent Dataset: | N/A |
| Reference: | Published references: Miles GM, Marshall GJ, McConnell JR, Aristarain AJ. 2008. Recent accumulation variability and change on the Antarctic Peninsula from the ERA40 reanalysis. International Journal of Climatology 28: 1409-1422. Miles, G., Marshall, G., Turner, J., Mulvaney, R., & Lachlan-Cope, T. 2006. Improving Ice Core Interpretation: The Role of Storm-Track Changes on Sub-Annual Peninsula Precipitation Variability. Antarctic Funding Initiative, Fifth Workshop, New Hall, Cambridge, 20-21 September 2006 Miles, G., Marshall, G., Turner, J., Mulvaney, R., & Lachlan-Cope, T. 2005. Improving Ice Core Interpretation: The Role of Storm Track Changes on the Sub-Annual Peninsula Precipitation Variability. Antarctic Funding Initiative, Fourth Workshop, New Hall, Cambridge, 27-28th September 2005. Unpublished references: AFI4-09_Marshall_field_report (BAS Archives) Project reference: AFI project 04/09. Improving ice-core interpretation. |
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| Start Date | 2005-01-08 |
| End Date | 2006-02-11 |
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| Latitude | |
| Southernmost | -73 |
| Northernmost | -69.5 |
| Longitude | |
| Westernmost | -79 |
| Easternmost | -72.5 |
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| Min Altitude | N/A |
| Max Altitude | N/A |
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| Min Depth | N/A |
| Max Depth | N/A |
| Location: | |
| Location | Antarctica |
| Detailed Location | Rothschild Island |
| Location | Antarctica |
| Detailed Location | Latady Island |
| Location | Antarctica |
| Detailed Location | Smyley Island |
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| Distribution Media | Online FTP |
| Distribution Size | 700 Mb |
| Distribution Format | N/A |
| Fees | See Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Data Policy |
| Data Storage: | This data is managed by the UK Polar Data Centre (UK PDC) Physical Sciences Data Manager at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). The data for both GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/00293 and GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/00294 is 700 MB and consist of Text files; MS Excel files, MS Word files, Postscript, Encapsulated Postscript, PDF, IDL files The data is held on the BAS Storage Area Network (SAN). |