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Regional weather survey on Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica
Title: Regional weather survey on Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica
Authors: Justel, AnaVelázquez, D.Quesada del Corral, AntonioBañón García, ManuelAutor AEMET
Keywords: Antarctica; Global change; LIMNOPOLAR; Meteorology; Weather
Issue Date: 2013
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Citation: Antarctic Science. 2013, 25(2), p. 146-156
Publisher version: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0954102012001046
Abstract: In 2001 the LIMNOPOLAR Project was launched with the aim of addressing the suitability of freshwater ecosystems as useful sentinels of climate change. In this project, an automatic weather station was deployed on Byers Peninsula (Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands) near several freshwater ecosystems under research. Here the multi-year data recorded are presented and compared with meteorological time series from the observatories at the Spanish Juan Carlos I Station, Deception Island and Bellingshausen Station. Lake freezing and thawing periods and snow cover are also investigated. The main results indicate that Byers Peninsula is affected by the very cloudy and wet Antarctic maritime climate. Mean annual temperature is -2.8°C and summer mean temperatures are above freezing. The region shows moderate winds over the year and with moderate, mostly liquid precipitation during the summer. There is a significant linear relationship with meteorological records obtained from Juan Carlos I Station located on the east of Livingston Island. Correlations between meteorological data from both sites are high but with colder and much windier conditions on Byers Peninsula. Therefore, the usefulness and accuracy of meteorological records in the interpretation of ecosystem dynamics are presented.
Description: Título del pre-print: Regional weather survey as tool for landscape studies of maritime Antarctica
Sponsorship : This work was funded by the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (Spain) through the grants REN2000-0435, CGL2005-06549, POL2006-06635.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11765/11606
ISSN: 0954-1020
1365-2079
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