APRIL 1959 N'ONTHLY WEATHER REVIEW 145 THE LOWEST TEMPERATURE IN ANTARCTICA

• Main Author: Nina A. Stepanova
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Amundsen-Scott; Antarctic; Sovetskaya; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.395.2245; http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/087/mwr-087-04-0145.pdf

The IGY period 1957-68 wa,s the first time in history that continuous meteorologicaLl observations were made in the interior of Antarctica,. The U.S. IGY Amundsen-Scott Station (90 " s., elev. 2,800 ni.) and the Soviet, lGP stations, Vostok (78'27 ' S., 106'52 ' E., elev. 3,420 m.) and Sovetskaya (78'24 ' S., 87'35 ' E., elev. 3,570 m.) are located on a high plateau of the Antarct,ic Continent and the minimum temperatures observed there have set new world records. In fact, the Antarctic winter season of 1958 saw a continuous breaking and resetting of the world minimum temperature record. a s it now stands, the- 87.4 " C. (- 125.3 ' F.) recorded at Vostok on August 25 is the world record. Now that this eventful winter is over, the still fragmentary information from Sntarctica can be analyzed