TRIAL OPERATION OF A SIMPLE AUTOMATIC WEATHER STATION AT ASUKA CAMP, ANTARCTICA

• Main Authors: エンドウ タツオ, ワカハマ ゴロウ, カワグチ サダオ, サノ マサシ, キクチ トキオ, Tatsuo ENDOH, Gorow WAKAHAMA, Sadao KAWAGUCHI, Masashi SANO, Tokio KIKUCHI
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University 1987
• Subjects: Asuka Camp; Antarc*; Antarctica; Polar meteorology and glaciology; Proceedings of the NIPR Symposium on Polar Meteorology and Glaciology
• Online Access: https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_uri&item_id=3528; http://id.nii.ac.jp/1291/00003528/; https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_action_common_download&item_id=3528&item_no=1&attribute_id=18&file_no=1

A tentative unmanned observation was carried out at Asuka Camp in 1985 by means of a data logger equipped with a thermometer and an anemometer. The data logger, run by Lithium batteries, was buried in the surface snow without any heater. Although the sensors were covered by heavily drifting snow during the later period of observation, the desired recordings were performed successfully. Analyses of the obtained data provided information on diurnal variations of air temperature, periods and behavior of disturbances, monthly mean air temperature and depth of snow drift at Asuka Camp in 1985.