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• Language: English
• Subjects: Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.395.2600; http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/100/mwr-100-08-0625.pdf

interpolated to a uniform value, equal to the mean value at latitude 2OoS, in the equatorial zone. Collecting all available data for the 5 days from their various sources and checking, plotting, analyzing, and digitizing these data were laborious tasks, requiring much of the time (9 mo) available for this aspect of the joint project. Thus, the desideratum of at least 15 days of analyzed data (the first for initial conditions and the remainder for verification of a 14-day forecast) was not achieved. Only 1000- and 500-mb height contours prepared by the International Antarctic Analysis Centre, Melbourne, Australia, were available for verification of the last 10 days of the forecast. These analyses covered the area poleward of latitude 30's and all longitudes with the exception of 80'-130'W. The analyses were extended to latitude 20's by reference to the available data, and the longitudinal gap in each case was filled subjectively by the customary forward and backward projection of systems from the analyzed areas.