Research Objectives:
The Antarctic Meteorological Research Center (AMRC) was created in 1992 to improve access to meteorological data from the Antarctic. The AMRC’s mission is to conduct research in observational meteorology and the stewardship of meteorological data, along with providing data and expert assistance to the antarctic community to support research and operations. The AMRC continues to fulfill its mission this season by:
- Maintain and expanding the long-term record of all meteorological data on Antarctica and the Southern Ocean, and make these data available to the scientific community for multidisciplinary use. Special attention is given to obtaining data not normally or readily available by other means.
- Generating satellite products, including but not limited to antarctic composite imagery, and expand and improve on them as much as possible
- Conducting research in observational meteorology especially with regard to climatological analyses and case studies
Conducting and expanding educational and public outreach activities associated with antarctic meteorology and related fields.
Using available meteorological interactive processing software and other standard computing tools, the research team will collect data from all available sources for processing, archiving, and distribution.
The mission of the AMRC not only includes the opportunity to advance the knowledge of antarctic meteorology, but with the free availability of its data holdings, the AMRC gives others the opportunity to advance the frontiers of all antarctic science. Continuing educational outreach activities on meteorology and the Antarctic, an important component of this work, have the potential to raise the science literacy of the general public, as well as the level of K-12 science education.
