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 r...