Atmospheric Boundary Layer Research

Staff

Dr. J.C. King j.c.king@bas.ac.uk

Dr. P.S. Anderson psan@bas.ac.uk

Dr. M.J. Varley mjva@bas.ac.uk

The atmospheric boundary layer research group is concerned with the processes that couple the Antarctic atmosphere to the underlying ice sheets and oceans. The group has carried out a number of Antarctic field experiments since 1986; links to some of these and to current research activities may be found below. Most of the group's current research forms part of the project Atmosphere-Ice Exchange Processes

Past activities

Present and planned activities

• Monitoring of surface fluxes at Halley Station
• The Coats Land Mesoscale Project
• Using kites for boundary-layer profiling
• Boundary-layer studies using satellite imagery
• Validation of GCM surface fluxes over Antarctica
• The very stable boundary layer

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