Abstract: A one-year (1988) statistical study of mesoscale cyclogenesis near Terra Nova Bay and Byrd Glacier. Antarctica, was conducted using high-resolution digital satellite imagery and automatic weather station data. Results ...

Abstract: he leading intraseasonal mode of tropical atmospheric variability, the Madden?Julian oscillation (MJO), has been shown to modulate precipitation and circulation on a global and regional scale. Winter precipitation in Chile ...

Abstract: The effect of the Transantarctic Mountains on cyclonically forced boundary-layer winds in the vicinity of Ross Island, Antarctica (77.5°S, 167°E), is discussed. When cyclones are present over the western Ross Ice Shelf and ...

Abstract: Five winter months (April?August 1988) of thermal infrared satellite images were examined to investigate the occurrence of dark (warm) signatures across the Ross Ice Shelf in the Antarctic continent. These features are ...

Abstract: The mesoscale cyclone activity observed in the portion of Antarctica that faces the South Pacific Ocean and Weddell Sea area is summarized from a study of 1991. In general, area-normalized results reveal much greater ...

Abstract: The Year of Polar Prediction in the Southern Hemisphere (YOPP-SH) had a special observing period (SOP) that ran from 16 November 2018 to 15 February 2019, a period chosen to span the austral warm season months of greatest ...