A 15-year West Antarctic climatology from six automatic weather station temperature and pressure records.

• Main Authors: David B Reusch, Richard B Alley
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2004
• Subjects: Antarctic; Austral; Byrd; Midwinter; Siple; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.1054.7264; http://www.ees.nmt.edu/%7Edreusch/Publications_files/200403_JGR.pdf

[1] Apart from a small number of mostly coastal stations with human observers, automatic weather stations (AWS) are the dominant source of direct measurements of near-surface climate parameters on the West Antarctic ice sheet. To help alleviate the shortage of surface meteorological data in Antarcti...