Boundary layer meteorology

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North Sea Methane

Offshore gas fields worldwide are major sources of methane emissions. Developing reliable methods to locate emissions and pinpoint sources is critical for quantifying the volume of methane emissions from gas …

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‘Sounds of Space’

Using a Very Low Frequency receiver at Halley Research Station we can pick up radio waves made by our planet. We use these waves to investigate the science of space …

Orographic Flows and the Climate of the Antarctic Peninsula (OFCAP)

OFCAP is an integrated programme of field observations, analysis and modelling aimed at understanding how the westerly winds in the Antarctic Peninsula interact with the mountains and influence the climate …

Joint Airborne Study of the Peninsula Region (JASPER)

JASPER brings together two of the best equipped Polar meteorology instrumented aircraft and teams to study boundary layer meteorology in the Antarctic Peninsula and Weddell Sea. A joint project between …

Aerosol-Cloud and Climate interations in the Arctic

Developing a better understanding of cloud and aerosol processes in the Arctic in order to improve climate models.

Space Weather Observatory

Assessing Space Weather impacts

Environmental baseline monitoring for shale gas development in the UK: identification and geochemical characterisation of local source emissions of methane to atmosphere

15 March, 2020

Diurnal cycle of coastal anthropogenic pollutant transport over southern West Africa during the DACCIWA campaign

14 January, 2019

Dynamical drivers of the local wind regime in a Himalayan valley

12 November, 2018

The spatial distribution and temporal variability of föhn winds over the Larsen C Ice Shelf, Antarctica

1 April, 2018

Atmospheric ice-nucleating particles in the dusty tropical Atlantic

1 March, 2018

The impact of föhn winds on surface energy balance during the 2010-11 melt season over Larsen C Ice Shelf, Antarctica

1 November, 2017

Does high-resolution modelling improve the spatial analysis of föhn flow over the Larsen C ice shelf?

1 July, 2017

The microphysics of clouds over the Antarctic Peninsula – Part 1: Observations

1 December, 2016

An assessment of the Polar Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) model representation of near-surface meteorological variables over West Antarctica

1 February, 2016

Year-round records of sea salt, gaseous and particulate inorganic bromine in the atmospheric boundary layer at coastal (Dumont d’Urville) and central (Concordia) East Antarctic sites

27 January, 2016

A case study of a transported bromine explosion event in the Canadian high arctic

16 January, 2016

Foehn warming distributions in non-linear and linear flow regimes: A focus on the Antarctic Peninsula

1 January, 2016

Föhn winds on South Georgia and their impact on regional climate

13 October, 2015

A strong wind event on the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica: A case study of scale interactions

1 October, 2015

Formaldehyde (HCHO) in air, snow and interstitial air at Concordia (East Antarctic plateau) in summer

17 June, 2015

Characterization of the boundary layer at Dome C (East Antarctica) during the OPALE summer campaign

5 June, 2015

Precipitation pathways for five new ice core sites in Ellsworth Land, West Antarctica

6 April, 2015

Foehn jets over the Larsen C Ice Shelf, Antarctica

1 April, 2015

Validation of the summertime surface energy budget of Larsen C Ice Shelf (Antarctica) as represented in three high-resolution atmospheric models

27 February, 2015

Föhn winds on South Georgia and their impacts on regional climate

28 November, 2014

Measurements of OH and RO2 radicals at Dome C, East Antarctica

26 November, 2014

HO2NO2 and HNO3 in the coastal Antarctic winter night: A “lab-in-the-field” experiment

12 November, 2014

The atmospheric boundary layer structure over the open and ice-covered Baltic Sea: in situ measurements compared to simulations with the regional model REMO

1 November, 2014

Sources of uncertainty in projections of 21st century westerly wind changes over the Amundsen Sea, West Antarctica, in CMIP5 climate models

1 October, 2014

Large mixing ratios of atmospheric nitrous acid (HONO) at Concordia (East Antarctic plateau) in summer: a strong source from surface snow?

19 September, 2014

Downslope föhn winds over the Antarctic Peninsula and their effect on the Larsen Ice Shelves

16 September, 2014

The atmospheric HCHO budget at Dumont d’Urville (East Antarctica): Contribution of photochemical gas-phase production versus snow emissions

12 December, 2013

A climatology of strong wind events at McMurdo station, Antarctica

1 October, 2013

Investigation of the stable atmospheric boundary layer at Halley Antarctica

1 September, 2013

Polar fohn winds and warming over the Larsen C Ice Shelf, Antarctica

1 September, 2013

The diurnal variability of atmospheric nitrogen oxides (NO and NO2 above the Antarctic Plateau driven by atmospheric stability and snow emissions

15 March, 2013

Atmospheric chemistry and physics in the atmosphere of a developed megacity (London): an overview of the REPARTEE experiment and its conclusions

1 January, 2012

Halogen activation via interactions with environmental ice and snow in the polar lower troposphere and other regions

1 January, 2012

The multi-seasonal NOy budget in coastal Antarctica and its link with surface snow and ice core nitrate: results from the CHABLIS campaign

1 January, 2011

On the effective aerodynamic and scalar roughness length of Weddell Sea ice

1 January, 2011

A network of autonomous surface ozone monitors in Antarctica: technical description and first results

1 January, 2011

Reflections on the ozone hole

1 January, 2010

Vertical structure of Antarctic tropospheric ozone depletion events: characteristics and broader implications

1 January, 2010

Climatology and variability of Southern Hemisphere marine cold-air outbreaks

1 January, 2010

Coupling of HOx, NOx and halogen chemistry in the Antarctic boundary layer

1 January, 2010

Ocean-atmosphere heat fluxes at the Ronne Polynya, Antarctica

1 January, 2010

Record low surface air temperature at Vostok Station, Antarctica

1 January, 2009

BrO, blizzards, and drivers of polar tropospheric ozone depletion events

1 January, 2009

A global stratospheric bromine monoxide climatology based on the BASCOE chemical transport model

1 January, 2009

Measurement of Prandtl number as a function of Richardson number avoiding self-correlation

1 January, 2009

Chemistry of the Antarctic boundary layer and the interface with snow: an overview of the CHABLIS campaign

1 January, 2008

Marine cold-air outbreaks in the future: an assessment of IPCC AR4 model results for the Northern Hemisphere

1 January, 2008

Measurement and interpretation of gas phase formaldehyde concentrations obtained during the CHABLIS campaign in coastal Antarctica

1 January, 2008

On the vertical distribution of boundary layer halogens over coastal Antarctica: implications for O3, HOx, NOx and the Hg lifetime

1 January, 2008

Boundary layer characteristics and turbulent exchange mechanisms in highly complex terrain

1 January, 2008

DMS and MSA measurements in the Antarctic Boundary Layer: impact of BrO on MSA production

1 January, 2008

Quality assessment of water cycle parameters in REMO by radar-lidar synergy

1 January, 2008

Boundary layer physics over snow and ice

1 January, 2008

Boundary layer halogens in coastal Antarctica

1 January, 2007

Atmospheric boundary layer

1 January, 2007

An assessment of the polar HOx photochemical budget based on 2003 Summit Greenland field observations

1 January, 2007

An overview of snow photochemistry: evidence, mechanisms and impacts

1 January, 2007

Halogens and their role in polar boundary-layer ozone depletion

1 January, 2007

Seasonal variation of peroxyacetylnitrate (PAN) in coastal Antarctica measured with a new instrument for the detection of sub-part per trillion mixing ratios of PAN

1 January, 2007

Observations of OH and HO2 radicals in coastal Antarctica

1 January, 2007

Behaviour of tracer diffusion in simple atmospheric boundary layer models

1 January, 2007

Polar lows

1 January, 2005

The dynamics of idealized katabatic flow over a moderate slope and ice shelf

1 January, 2004

A high-resolution simulation of convective roll clouds during a cold-air outbreak

1 January, 2004

The near-surface wind field over the Antarctic continent

1 January, 2004

Seaflux

1 January, 2004

Case study of a Chinese dust plume reaching the French Alps

1 January, 2003

An analysis of the oxidation potential of the South Pole boundary layer and the influence of stratospheric ozone depletion

1 January, 2003

Fine-scale structure observed in a stable atmospheric boundary layer by SODAR and kite-borne tethersonde

1 January, 2003

Aerosol profiling using a tethered balloon in coastal Antarctica

1 January, 2002

Coastal polynyas in the southern Weddell Sea: variability of the surface energy budget

1 January, 2002

Ion-acoustic resistivity in plasmas with similar ion and electron temperatures

1 January, 2002

A comparison of surface layer and surface turbulent flux observations over the Labrador Sea with ECMWF analyses and NCEP reanalyses

1 January, 2002

The surface climatology of an ordinary katabatic wind regime in Coats Land, Antarctica

1 January, 2002

Near-surface turbulent fluxes in stable stratification: calculation techniques for use in general-circulation models

1 January, 2002

Modelling photochemical NOx production and nitrate loss in the upper snowpack of Antarctica

1 January, 2002

An assessment of the surface turbulent heat fluxes from the NCEP-NCAR reanalysis over western boundary currents

1 January, 2002

Sensitivity of modelled Antarctic climate to surface and boundary-layer flux parametrizations

1 January, 2001

Evaluation of turbulent surface flux parameterizations for the stable surface layer over Halley, Antarctica

1 January, 2001

A simple model of the convective internal boundary layer and its application to surface heat flux estimates within polynyas

1 January, 2000

A climatological study of internal gravity waves in the atmospheric boundary layer overlying the Brunt Ice Shelf, Antarctica

1 January, 2000

Profile measurements of blowing snow at Halley, Antarctica

1 January, 2000

Antarctic aerosol and snowfall chemistry: implications for deep Antarctic ice-core chemistry

1 January, 1999

Beamsteering analysis of internal gravity waves in the stable atmospheric boundary layer

1 January, 1999

Coastal Antarctic aerosol and snowfall chemistry

20 May, 1998

Relationship between chemistry of air, fresh snow and firn cores for aerosol species in coastal Antarctica

20 May, 1998

Methane sulfonic acid to non-sea-salt sulfate ratio in coastal Antarctic aerosol and surface snow

1 January, 1998

Ammonium in coastal Antarctic aerosol and snow: Role of polar ocean and penguin emissions

1 January, 1998

Using satellite thermal infrared imagery to study boundary layer structure in an Antarctic katabatic wind region

1 January, 1998

Ambient air levels and atmospheric long-range transport of persistent organochlorines to Signy Island, Antarctica

1 January, 1998

Observations of solitary waves in the stable atmospheric boundary layer

1 January, 1998

The use of kites to investigate boundary layer meteorology

1 June, 1997

Modelling isolated wave-turbulence interactions in the stable atmospheric boundary layer

1 April, 1997

Observations of isolated wave-turbulence interactions in the stable atmospheric boundary layer

1 April, 1997

Modelling mass and energy exchange over polar snow using the DAISY model

1 January, 1994

Acoustic observation of the peripheral Antarctic boundary layer

1 January, 1993

Acoustic sounder observations of low level jets at Halley, Antarctica

1 January, 1993

Control of near-surface winds over an Antarctic ice shelf

1 January, 1993

Contrasts between the Antarctic stable boundary layer and the mid-latitude nocturnal boundary layer

1 January, 1993

Waves and turbulence in stably stratified flows

1 January, 1993

The use of a simultaneous physical retrieval scheme for satellite derived atmospheric temperatures: Weddell Sea, Antarctica

1 January, 1992

On the characteristics of eddies in the stable atmospheric boundary layer

1 June, 1991

Observations of internal gravity waves in the Antarctic boundary layer using a microbarograph array. (preprint)

1 January, 1991

Some measurements of turbulence over an antarctic ice shelf

1 January, 1990

Acoustic sounding of the atmospheric boundary layer at Halley, Antarctica

1 December, 1989

The Stable Antarctic Boundary Layer Experiment at Halley station

1 October, 1989

The Antarctic drainage flow: implications for hemispheric flow on the Southern Hemisphere

1 September, 1989

Low-level wind profiles at an Antarctic coastal station

1 June, 1989

Studies of atmospheric internal gravity waves at Halley station, Antarctica, using radiosondes

1 March, 1989

A general method for the linear stability analysis of stratified shear flows

1 January, 1989

Cross-spectral properties of large eddies in the stably-stratified atmospheric boundary layer

1 January, 1989

Internal gravity waves in the atmospheric boundary layer

1 January, 1989

Studies of internal gravity waves at Halley Base, Antarctica, using wind observations

1 July, 1988

Observations of internal gravity waves in the stably-stratified atmospheric boundary layer

1 January, 1988

Some measurements of turbulence length scales in the stably-stratified surface layer

1 January, 1988

Installation and performance of the STABLE instrumentation at Halley

1 January, 1988

Observations of an internal gravity wave in the lower troposphere at Halley, Antarctica

1 April, 1987

Short-term fluctuations in heavy metal concentrations in Antarctic snow

1 January, 1981

Meteorological Observations at Fossil Bluff, Alexander Island

1 June, 1963

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New insight into what weakens Antarctic ice shelves

25 April, 2017

New research describes for the first time the role that warm, dry winds play in influencing the behaviour of Antarctic ice shelves. Presenting this week at a European conference scientists …