Robert Mossman, Endurance and the Weddell Sea ice
ABSTRACT Before Shackleton arrived at South Georgia aboard Endurance on 5 November 1914 he was aware that the vessel might meet bad pack-ice in the Weddell Sea. This had been forecast on the basis of climate analysis by Robert Mossman, the meteorologist on the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0032247415000285 2024-03-03T08:37:19+00:00 Robert Mossman, Endurance and the Weddell Sea ice Burton, Robert King, John C. 2015 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247415000285 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247415000285 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Polar Record volume 52, issue 1, page 92-97 ISSN 0032-2474 1475-3057 General Earth and Planetary Sciences Ecology Geography, Planning and Development journal-article 2015 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0032247415000285 2024-02-08T08:42:45Z ABSTRACT Before Shackleton arrived at South Georgia aboard Endurance on 5 November 1914 he was aware that the vessel might meet bad pack-ice in the Weddell Sea. This had been forecast on the basis of climate analysis by Robert Mossman, the meteorologist on the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition (1902–1904), who was currently working at the Argentine Meteorological Office. Mossman was interested in teleconnections linking meteorological and oceanic conditions in widely separated places and had studied the links between the Weddell Sea and South America. Mossman's Antarctic data were mainly records from the Orcadas station in the South Orkneys which had operated continuously from 1903. He found a correlation between extensive pack-ice in the Weddell Sea and plentiful rain in a belt across South America that included Buenos Aires. The experiences of Endurance supported this. Modern studies of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) broadly confirm Mossman's conclusions. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Polar Record Sea ice Weddell Sea Cambridge University Press Antarctic Weddell Sea Shackleton Weddell Argentine Orcadas ENVELOPE(-44.717,-44.717,-60.750,-60.750) Mossman ENVELOPE(-44.700,-44.700,-60.750,-60.750) Orcadas Station ENVELOPE(-44.738,-44.738,-60.739,-60.739) Polar Record 52 1 92 97 |
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ABSTRACT Before Shackleton arrived at South Georgia aboard Endurance on 5 November 1914 he was aware that the vessel might meet bad pack-ice in the Weddell Sea. This had been forecast on the basis of climate analysis by Robert Mossman, the meteorologist on the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition (1902–1904), who was currently working at the Argentine Meteorological Office. Mossman was interested in teleconnections linking meteorological and oceanic conditions in widely separated places and had studied the links between the Weddell Sea and South America. Mossman's Antarctic data were mainly records from the Orcadas station in the South Orkneys which had operated continuously from 1903. He found a correlation between extensive pack-ice in the Weddell Sea and plentiful rain in a belt across South America that included Buenos Aires. The experiences of Endurance supported this. Modern studies of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) broadly confirm Mossman's conclusions. |
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