Development of automatic weather stations in the Japanese Antarctic Climate Research Program (ACR)

• Main Authors: Kikuchi,Tokio, Endoh,Tatsuo
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Department of Information Science, Kochi University/Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University 1993
• Subjects: Antarctic; Queen Maud Land; Antarc*; 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=3781; http://id.nii.ac.jp/1291/00003781/; https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_action_common_download&item_id=3781&item_no=1&attribute_id=18&file_no=1

Automatic weather stations (AWS) were installed in East Queen Maud Land in order to obtain a multi-year climatic record since 1987. After 4 years of operation of Argos and CMOS AWS, they proved to be useful in the observation of climate parameters and associated weather phenomena. Some preliminary results are reported on the Argos AWS units which were effective in studying the cause of the "dark stream" in thermal infrared satellite images and in obtaining a long period of data.