Low temperature Antarctic Automatic Weather Stations

• Format: Dataset
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• Subjects: Geoscientific Information; Atmosphere > Atmospheric Radiation > Longwave Radiation; IPY-NL; Atmosphere > Atmospheric Radiation > Shortwave Radiation; TASTE-IDEA; Atmosphere > Atmospheric Temperature > Surface Temperature > Air Temperature; Atmosphere > Atmospheric Water Vapor > Water Vapor Indicators > Humidity; Inland Waters; Cryosphere > Glaciers/ice Sheets > Ice Sheets; Climatology/Meteorology/Atmosphere; Atmosphere > Atmospheric Pressure > Surface Pressure; Atmosphere > Atmospheric Winds > Surface Winds; Amundsen Scott South Pole Station; Amundsen-Scott; Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station; Antarctic; Dronning Maud Land; East Antarctica; Kohnen; Kohnen Station; South Pole; Troll; Troll Station; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; International Polar Year; IPY; South pole
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During the International Polar Year (IPY, 2007-2009), several ground traverses penetrated the remote interior plateau of East Antarctica to search (among other things) for the oldest ice chronology on Earth. One of those traverses connected the Norwegian Troll station to Amundsen-Scott South Pole station, via the former Plateau station and the pole of inaccessibility. This offered a unique opportunity to extend the present operational area of IMAU AWS to the deep interior ice sheet. In this project we designed and build two AWS with low temperature specifications for installation along this IPY traverse, and one prototype for testing at Kohnen station. We installed these AWS at the site of former Plateau station and on the interior slope of west Dronning Maud Land, an area that is meteorologically unexplored. The AWS will be left unattended for a period of 3-5 years, relaying their data to Utrecht through the ARGOS system.