2005: A look at the surfacebased temperature inversion over the Antarctic Plateau

• Main Authors: Stephen R. Hudson, Richard, E. Brandt
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Amundsen-Scott; Antarctic; South Pole; The Antarctic; Antarc*; South pole
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.535.1614; http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~sgw/PAPERS/2005_HudsonBrandt_inversion.pdf

Data from radiosondes, towers, and a thermistor string are used to characterize the temperature inversion at two stations: the Amundsen-Scott Station at the South Pole, and the somewhat higher and colder Dome C Station at a lower latitude. Ten years of temperature data from a 22-m tower at the South...