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Detecting CFC’s and their replacements at the South Pole Temperature: minus 24.9.5 C, minus 12.8 F Windchill: minus 33.6 C, minus 28.4 F Wind: 6 knots. Weather: bright and sunny in the morning, then increasing cloudy with little visibility I did not want to confuse topics in the

Location: Still WAIS Divide, though it may look a little different. WOW! After almost three days of being stuck inside, snow, wind, and blowing snow, the storm has given way to blue skies! You wouldn’t believe how the climate of the camp has changed in the last 12 hours! We’re also supposed to

Latitude: 73.53 Longitude: 115.24 Temperature: -2.6 degrees Wind Chill: -19.3 degrees When do you get tired of seeing an iceberg? -when you've spent two days going back and forth in front of the same one. J When we first got close enough to it a couple of days ago, everyone was out

Catching neutrinos deep in the ice! Temperature: minus 25.1.5 C, minus 12.7 F Windchill: minus 31.2 C, minus 28.7 Wind: 5 knots Weather: bright and sunny with some clouds, changing to cloudy I went to the gym in the morning and had my first shower here at the station. Yes, we

South Pole air provides the control samples for the world Temperature: minus 23.5 C, minus 12.1 F Windchill: minus 32.2 C, minus 27.3 Wind Speed: 5 knots Weather: bright and sunny with some clouds Today I learned how to collect air samples from the Clean Air Sector for carbon

Latitude: 74.09 S Longitude: 112.43 W Temperature: -3.4 degrees Wind chill: -14.2 degrees Well, so much for the warming trend we saw yesterday! Today we awoke to more snow and much colder weather, thanks to those Antarctic winds! We are near the Dotson Ice shelf and have seen some

Latitude: 74.32 S Longitude: 109.12 W Temperature: -3.6 C Wind chill: -3.6 C Today we arrived at the much anticipated Polynya in the Amundsen Sea for a 24 hour work station. A coastal polynya is formed by offshore winds and possibly an upwelling of warmer water at the shelf break

Location: WAIS Divide So the rumor that was posted on the journal from two days ago or so about the lowest pressure that had been recorded in some time was just that, a rumor. Then the forecast comes in yesterday that we’re supposed to have 30-40 knot winds for about 2 hours this morning. We

Amundsen, the Geographic South Pole,IGY, and the Clean Air Sector today Temperature: minus 25 Celsius, minus 14 F Windchill: minus 38.6 Celsius, minus 39.1 Wind: 21 knots **Weather: **snow blown in the air , overcast: The answer to yesterdays question seems fitting with the date