Antarctic automatic weather station program: 30 years of polar observations

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 93, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1519-1537

  Lazzara, Matthew A ^a   Weidner, George A ^a   Keller, Linda M ^a   Thom, Jonathan E ^a   Cassano, John J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTICA; AUTOMATIC WEATHER STATIONS; BATTERY POWERED; CONTINUOUS OBSERVATION; INTERNATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL YEARS; METEOROLOGICAL AND OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA; NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION; PRIMARY OBJECTIVE; SATELLITE SYSTEM; SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY; STANFORD; WEATHER OBSERVATIONS;

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES; METEOROLOGY;

NASA;

EID: 84867781624     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00015.1     Document Type: Article

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