A Mobile - Automatic Weather Station (M-AWS) was designed to record a set of ground measurements, on board a zero-emissions polar vehicle. The M-AWS measured temperature and relative humidity in a transect of 2538 km from the plateau near the Novolazárevskaya station to the Dome Fuji (altitude 3810 m. asl) over the Eastern Antarctic plateau during the Year of Polar Prediction Southern Hemisphere Special Observing Period (YOPP-SH SOP).
Datalogger: Campbell CR1000Temperature and Relative Humidity Sensor: Vaisala HMP155Range for Temperature: -80 ... +60 °CAccuracy for Temperature: (0.176-0.0028 x temp) °CRange for Relative Humidity: 0 ... 100 %RHAccuracy for Relative Humidity: (1.2+0.012xrh) %RHGPS: GARMIN GPS 16x-HVXAccuracy: Position<15m, 0.1knot RMS steady state
Supplement to: Gonzalez, Sergi; Bañon, Manuel; Albero, José V; Larramendi, Ramón; Moreno, Hermenegildo; Vasallo, Francisco; Sanz, Pablo; Quesada, Antonio; Justel, Ana (2019): Weather Observations of Remote Polar Areas Using an AWS Onboard a Unique Zero-Emissions Polar Vehicle. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 100(10), 1891-1895