AWARE Project Launched to Gain New Insights on Climate of Antarctica
Friday, February 12, 2016 - 12:40
in Earth & Climate
It has been nearly half a century since scientists have collected extensive climate or atmospheric data from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS). But late last year, scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, working with a group led by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, embarked on a new project that will lead to a better understanding of how much of the sun's light and the atmosphere's heat radiation reach the Antarctic surface--variables that affect temperature patterns and ice melt throughout the region.