Automatic Weather Station on the Ross Ice Shelf (IMAGE)

Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Automatic Weather Station on the Ross Ice Shelf

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This is an automatic weather station on the Ross Ice Shelf, equipped with a Campbell Scientific SR50 acoustic depth gauge, which measures the distance to the snow surface from the speed of reflected sonic pulses.

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Photo credit: Minghu Ding

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