Studies of the meteorology and climatology of Ross Island and the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica

• Main Author: Coggins, Jack
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of Canterbury. Physics and Astronomy 2013
• Subjects: Antarctica; climate; meteorology; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Ross Sea; Ross Island; Bellingshausen Sea; Ross Ice Shelf; McMurdo Station; Siple; Scott Base; Siple Coast; Hut Point; Hut Point Peninsula; Antarc*; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.26021/6775; https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/handle/10092/8653

This thesis documents a series of studies performed on the lower atmosphere over the region of the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica, and its surroundings. In particular, much of the thesis focuses on the area in the vicinity of Ross Island, a mountainous protrusion in the far north-west of the permanent f...