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Automatic weather stations

Description

Three Automatic Weather Stations (AWS) are present within the Admundsen Sea region, Evans Knoll (EK), Thurston Island (TI) and Bear Peninsula (BP). Data was available over the period February 2011 to February 2014. Meteorological variables include temperature, wind speed, relative humidity and specific humidity.

AWS Model: ARGOS ID: 8930.

References

1. More information and data from 2013 to present day is available online via the AMRC & AWS dataset website: AMRC & AWS

2. Jones, R. W., I. A. Renfrew, A. Orr, B. G. M. Webber, D. M. Holland, and M. A. Lazzara (2016), Evaluation of four global reanalysis products using in situ observations in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, Antarctica, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 121(11), 6240-6257.Available here

Field photo

Automatic weather station

Thurston Island AWS after servicing December 4th, 2014 AMRC & AWS