Katabatic Winds in Eastern Antarctica

该奖项是与法国和澳大利亚科学家合作，对正在进行的东南极洲倾斜风研究的一项基于成就的更新。它依赖于来自两条自动气象站线的地面气象数据；一条是从多姆C到南极海岸，另一条是从联邦湾到杜蒙居维尔海岸。将安装三个新站，将这个网络与澳大利亚南极计划维护的网络连接起来。除了标准观测之外，这些新台站还将有能力提供热通量数据。扩大的覆盖范围将能够审查天气天气系统对降风的影响，并提供有关个别最高风速的空间变异性的资料。此外，还将介绍吹雪测量仪器的校准改进，并研究由降风引起的近海冰礁的形成和热量收支。

This award is an accomplishment-based renewal of an ongoing study of the katabatic winds in East Antarctica, in cooperation with French and Australian scientists. It depends on surface meteorological data derived from two lines of automatic weather stations; one from Dome C to the antarctic coast, the other along the coast from Commonwealth Bay to Dumont d'Urville. Three new stations will be installed, which will connect this network with that maintained by the Australian Antarctic program. These new stations will have the capability of providing heat flux data in addition to the standard observations. The expanded coverage will allow an examination of the influence of synoptic weather systems on the katabatic winds, as well provide information on the spatial variability of individual wind speed maxima. Additionally, improvements in the calibration of the instrument to measure blowing snow will be introduced, and the formation and heat budget of offshore polynyas resulting from katabatic winds will be studied.