A STATISTICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE DIURNAL TEMPERATURE VARIATION DURING THE POLAR NIGHT AT McMURDO SOUND, ANTARCTICA

• Main Author: Barrigar,Donald B.
• Other Authors: NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CALIF
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1963
• Subjects: STATISTICS; CLIMATE; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; AIR; TEMPERATURE; WIND; VELOCITY; CLOUD COVER; ATMOSPHERIC MOTION; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; MAGNETIC TAPE; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; MCMURDO SOUND; Antarctic; McMurdo Sound; Antarc*; Antarctica; polar night
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0413588; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0413588

During the polar night, 24-hour periods with a clear sky and light to moderate winds have their lowest temperatures in the middle of the period, and the highest temperatures occur at the be ginning and end. For cloudy and windy periods, the shape of the temperature curve is reversed, with the maximum temperature occurring near the middle of the period. Using six years of sur face data, the diurnal temperature variation for various special types of days is divided into two parts, the meteorological or diurnal varia on and the superimposed statistical bias. Finally, the meteorological diurnal temperature variation, based upon all observations during the six year period, is determined. (Author) Master's thesis.