Soil climate and permafrost temperature monitoring in the McMurdo Sound region, Antarctica

• Main Author: Adlam, Leah Seree
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: The University of Waikato 2009
• Subjects: Permafrost; active layer; phase lag; mean annual temperatures; Antarctic; Granite Harbour; Marble Point; McMurdo Sound; Victoria Valley; Wright Valley; Antarc*; Antarctica; permafrost; sami
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/2764

A soil climate monitoring network, consisting of seven automated weather stations, was established between 1999 and 2003 in the McMurdo Sound region of Antarctica. Soil temperature, soil water content, air temperature, relative humidity, solar radiation, and wind speed and direction are recorded hou...