Datasets on this page are mainly for collaborators, but include some of general interest. Data placed here are made freely available to the scientific community, but I would appreciate you contacting me if you wish to use any of the datasets.
I get many enquiries about Antarctic climate data. The definitive source for monthly mean data (surface and upper-air) is now the SCAR READER project.
Lyddan Ice Rise snow
redistribution project AWS,
topographic survey and snow accumulation data used in King, J.C., P.S.
Anderson, D.G. Vaughan, G.W. Mann, S.D. Mobbs
and S.B. Vosper (2004) Wind-Borne Redistribution of Snow across an
Antarctic Ice Rise
J. Geophys. Res., Vol. 109, No. D11, D11104,
doi:10.1029/2003JD004361
Bellingshausen Sea ice drifter data from 2001, as
used in King, J.C. (2003) Validation of
ECMWF sea level pressure analyses over the Bellingshausen Sea, Antarctica.
Weather and Forecasting, 18, 536-540.
Monthly mean radiation and snow heat flux data, as used in King, JC and Connolley, WM (1997) Validation of the surface energy balance over the Antarctic ice sheets in the UK Meteorological Office Unified Climate Model. J. Climate, 10, 1273-1287
Updated: 15 September 2005