Studies in Antarctic Meteorology

Title Page......Page 1
Copyright......Page 2
The Antarctic Research Series......Page 3
Preface......Page 5
Contents
......Page 6
1. INTRODUCTION......Page 7
2. THEORETICAL BACKGROUND......Page 8
3. THEORETICAL MODELS OF KATABATIC FLOW......Page 11
5. ANALYSIS OF DATA......Page 13
6. POSSIBLE CAUSES OF ABRUPT
CHANGES IN SURFACE LAYER
STRUCTURE......Page 15
7. CONCLUSIONS AND OUTLOOK FOR FUTURE WORK......Page 16
REFERENCES......Page 17
SOUTH POLE MICROMETEOROLOGY DATA ANALYSIS1......Page 18
2. MICROCLIMATIC DATA AT LITTLE AMERICA V AND SOUTH POLE4......Page 19
3. ANALYSIS OF PROFILE STRUCTURE AT THE SOUTH POLE5......Page 20
4. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF AIR MOTION IN THE INVERSION LAYER AT THE SOUTH POLE IN RELATION TO LARGE-SCALE TERRAIN SLOPE6......Page 28
5. ROUGHNESS LENGTH7......Page 36
6. SHEARING STRESS AND EDDY HEAT FLUX8......Page 38
7. HEAT FLUX IN THE SNOW9......Page 40
8. SURFACE ENERGY BUDGET10......Page 52
9. CONCLUSIONS......Page 60
REFERENCES......Page 62
2. THEORY OF NONUNIFORM SNOW
DRIFT......Page 63
3. SPECIAL CASE: GAMMA DISTRIBUTION
OF SNOW PARTICLE DIAMETERS......Page 65
4. APPLICATION OF THEORY TO DEIFT AND PARTICLE SIZE OBSERVATIONS......Page 67
REFERENCES......Page 73
CONTENTS......Page 75
1. INTRODUCTION......Page 76
2. METHODS AND EQUIPMENT......Page 77
3. THEORY--GENERAL......Page 86
4. BASIC RESULTS OF THE BYRD SNOW
DRIFT MEASUREMENTS--GENERAL......Page 89
5. DRIFT CONTENT AND
TRANSPORT--GENERAL......Page 107
6. CONCLUSIONS AND PLANS......Page 116
REFERENCES......Page 118
APPENDIX A. General Information on Snow Drift Runs, Byrd, 1962......Page 119
APPENDIX B. Wind Profiles for Byrd 1962......Page 128
APPENDIX C. Rapid-Run Upper-Wind Observations, Byrd, 1962-1963......Page 134
APPENDIX D. Snow Drift Densities for Byrd 1962......Page 135
APPENDIX E. Drift Contents and Transports......Page 138
VARIATION OF SNOW CHARACTERISTICS WITH TIME......Page 139
CORRELATIOONF SYNOPTICPA TTERNSS,T ATION
ACCUMULATION RECORDS AND TYPE-CONTROL
PIT STRATIGRAPHY......Page 144
SUMMATION OF SYNOPTIC PATTERN -
ACCUMULATION RELATIONSHIPS......Page 152
GEOCHEMICAL DATING......Page 166
EXAMPLE OF TRAVERSE ANALYSES......Page 169
SNOW DRIFT......Page 174
ACCUMULATION......Page 177
REFERENCES......Page 180
2. PHYSIOGRAPHICAL SETTING......Page 181
3. THE OBSERVATIONS......Page 184
4. TEMPERATURE......Page 185
5. WIND......Page 186
8. RADIATION......Page 192
9. OTHER EVIDENCE OF CLIMATE......Page 194
10. THE ICE-FREE NATURE OF THE AREA......Page 197
REFERENCES......Page 198
INTRODUCTION......Page 199
GEOGRAPHICAL INFLUENCES......Page 201
CLIMATOGRAPHY......Page 203
INTERRELATIONSHIPS OF
CLIMATIC ELEMENTS......Page 221
MICROCLIMATOLOGY OF THE SOUTH POLE²......Page 227
REFERENCES......Page 234