Antarctica: Challenging Forecasts for a Challenging Environment features two educational pieces. The first is the overview giving the general audience a broad look at Antarctica including some history, interesting facts, real-life experiences, climate, and the challenges inherent to this frozen continent. The second is the main presentation where experts in Antarctic research and forecasting, share their knowledge of the continent. They discuss forecasting challenges as well as present and future research topics while providing elaborations on the uniqueness in Antarctica’s location, topography, and forecasting techniques as compared to other parts of the globe.
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1. Give the general audience a basic understanding of the uniqueness of Antarctica.
2. Give prospective Antarctic forecasters or meteorology students an understanding of the challenges in forecasting weather in Antarctica.
3. Provide students an overview of the tools used to monitor and forecast Antarctica’s weather.
4. Describe the connection of Antarctica with the rest of the earth’s climate system and the research that seeks to discover how it influences that system.
Antarctica, polar weather, polar lows, Antarctic forecasting, polar satellites, automatic weather station, atmospheric circulation, katabatic winds, Ross Ice Shelf Air Stream, RAS, climate change, ice shelves, coreless winter, Antarctic temperatures, Antarctic precipitation patterns, Southern Ocean, Antarctic Mesoscale Prediction System, AMPS, inversion, grid resolution, global thermohaline circulation
July 2014: The AMPS model resolutions shown in this lesson are dated, but the points made remain valid. The web links in Section 5 no longer work, but the core material of this lesson is still solid.
