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WAIS Divide Ice Core Project - About: Weather & Climate

Current Weather Conditions

Weather observations provided by: Kominko-Slade automatic weather station

2006 station location: 79.468^oS, 112.086^oW, 1833 meters elevation, ARGOS ID=8936.

image of real-time data from WAIS Divide automatic weather station

image of real-time data from WAIS Divide automatic weather station

Source: Antarctic Meteorological Research Center, SSEC, University of Wisconsin
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Temperature (T) in degrees Celsius (C) in blue
Pressure (Pre) in millibars (mb) in yellow
Wind speed (SPD) in meters per second (MPS) and direction in yellow (wind direction is given in vector notation - the vectors point in the direction that the wind is traveling)
Relative Humidity (RH) in percent (%) in green

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	This site is administered by the WAIS Divide Ice Core Project Science Coordination Office (Desert Research Institute and University of New Hampshire) This material is based on work supported by the National Science Foundation under award OPP-0440817 to the Desert Research Institute; University of Nevada-Reno. Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
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