Synoptic forcing of wind and temperature in a large cirque 300 km from the coast of East Antarctica

• Published in: Antarctic Science
• Main Author: Jonsson, Stig
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1995
• Subjects: Geology; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Oceanography; Weddell Sea; East Antarctica; Neumayer; Weddell; Heimefrontfjella; Scharffenbergbotnen; Antarc*; Antarctic Science; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954102095000575; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0954102095000575

Between 18 January 1988 and 3 June 1989, an automatic weather station recorded 13 different weather parameters every 3 h on a blue-ice area located in Scharffenbergbotnen, a large cirque in central Heimefrontfjella 300 km from the Weddell Sea coast. The first part of the paper reports on annual and...