Surface winds over West Antarctica

• Main Author: Bromwich, David
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1993
• Subjects: 46; Antarctic; The Antarctic; East Antarctica; Ross Sea; West Antarctica; Amundsen Sea; Ross Ice Shelf; Transantarctic Mountains; Byrd; Marie Byrd Land; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=19930022714

Five winter months (April-August 1988) of thermal infrared satellite images were examined to investigate the occurrence of dark (warm) signatures across the Ross Ice Shelf in the Antarctic continent. These features are inferred to be generated by katabatic winds that descend from southern Marie Byrd...