The Weather and its Role in Captain Robert F. Scott and his Companions' Deaths
A long debate has ensued about the relationship of weather conditions and Antarctic exploration. In no place on Earth is exploration, human existence, and scientific research so weather dependent. By using an artificial neural network simulation, historical (Heroic Age) and modern weather data from...
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ftdatacite:10.48550/arxiv.1011.1272 2023-05-15T13:52:32+02:00 The Weather and its Role in Captain Robert F. Scott and his Companions' Deaths Sienicki, Krzysztof 2010 https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1011.1272 https://arxiv.org/abs/1011.1272 unknown arXiv arXiv.org perpetual, non-exclusive license http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/ History and Philosophy of Physics physics.hist-ph Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics physics.ao-ph FOS Physical sciences Preprint Article article CreativeWork 2010 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1011.1272 2022-04-01T14:29:24Z A long debate has ensued about the relationship of weather conditions and Antarctic exploration. In no place on Earth is exploration, human existence, and scientific research so weather dependent. By using an artificial neural network simulation, historical (Heroic Age) and modern weather data from manned and automated stations, placed at different locations of the Ross Ice Shelf, and the Ross Island, I have examined minimum near surface air temperatures. All modern meteorological data, as well as historical data of Cherry-Garrard, high correlations between temperatures at different locations, and artificial neural network retrodiction of modern and historical temperature data, point out the oddity of Captain Scott's temperature recordings from February 27 - March 19, 1912. I was able to show that in this period the actual minimum near surface air temperature was on the average about 13°F(7°C) above that reported by Captain Scott and his party. On the basis of the mentioned evidence I concluded that the real minimum near surface air temperature data was altered by Lt. Bowers and Captain Scott to inflate and dramatize the weather conditions. : 12 pages, 6 figures, preprint. Dec. 3rd 2010: e-mail added and few (5) spellings Capitan to Captain corrected. Jul. 12th, 2011: Color figures added Report Antarc* Antarctic Ice Shelf Ross Ice Shelf Ross Island DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Antarctic Bowers ENVELOPE(164.083,164.083,-85.000,-85.000) Cherry-Garrard ENVELOPE(168.683,168.683,-71.300,-71.300) Ross Ice Shelf Ross Island |
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A long debate has ensued about the relationship of weather conditions and Antarctic exploration. In no place on Earth is exploration, human existence, and scientific research so weather dependent. By using an artificial neural network simulation, historical (Heroic Age) and modern weather data from manned and automated stations, placed at different locations of the Ross Ice Shelf, and the Ross Island, I have examined minimum near surface air temperatures. All modern meteorological data, as well as historical data of Cherry-Garrard, high correlations between temperatures at different locations, and artificial neural network retrodiction of modern and historical temperature data, point out the oddity of Captain Scott's temperature recordings from February 27 - March 19, 1912. I was able to show that in this period the actual minimum near surface air temperature was on the average about 13°F(7°C) above that reported by Captain Scott and his party. On the basis of the mentioned evidence I concluded that the real minimum near surface air temperature data was altered by Lt. Bowers and Captain Scott to inflate and dramatize the weather conditions. : 12 pages, 6 figures, preprint. Dec. 3rd 2010: e-mail added and few (5) spellings Capitan to Captain corrected. Jul. 12th, 2011: Color figures added |
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