STATISTIC OF WEATHER IN THE ANTARCTIC OCEAN

• Main Authors: Saburo YANAGAWA, Isamu KOTAKE, Kanau MATSUIKE
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: National Institute of Polar Research 1963
• Subjects: geo; Antarctic; Antarctic Ocean; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.15094/00007277; https://doaj.org/article/c736a512b60d4b9f98ce30b01198b06a

On the cruise in the Antarctic Ocean by the UMITAKA-MARU, the hourly general observation on weather: surface pressure, air temperature, area of clouds, wind force and direction were made from Dec. 3, 1961 to Jan. 30, 1962. The region of observation was divided into three sections and was made the statistics of mean weather condition of these data. In addition, the frequence of wind speed and wind direction were shown every ten days and tabulated separately.