A Polar Climate Iteration?

• Main Authors: Hogan, A., Riley, D., Murphey, B. B., Barnard, S. C., Samson, J. A.
• Other Authors: COLD REGIONS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING LAB HANOVER NH
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1992
• Subjects: Geography; Snow; Ice and Permafrost; Meteorology; *AEROSOLS; *AIR; *MASS; *POLAR REGIONS; *CLIMATE; *ITERATIONS; ATMOSPHERES; EXCHANGE; GLOBAL; ICE; MEAN; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; OCEANS; PARTICLES; PLATEAUS; REDUCTION; SEASONAL VARIATIONS; SODIUM; STATICS; SURFACES; TEMPERATURE; VARIATIONS; VELOCITY; WIND; WINTER; SYMPOSIA; ADVECTION; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; Antarctic; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; South Pole; Polar Plateau; South Polar Plateau; Antarc*; Ice; Ice Shelves; permafrost; South pole
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADP007356; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADP007356

The antarctic continental (cA) air mass is rarely displaced from the South Polar Plateau, but it is frequently modified by exchange with Antarctic maritime (mA) air advected from the ice shelves or frozen seas or with polar maritime (mP) air advected from the Southern Ocean. Because the cA air mass...