With ARM Instruments Watching, an Extensive Summer Melt in West Antarctica
Friday, June 16, 2017 - 15:52
in Earth & Climate
One day in December of 2015, bound for a remote ice camp in the interior of Antarctica, Scripps Institution of Oceanography doctoral student Ryan Scott boarded a ski-equipped LC-130 turboprop transport plane at McMurdo Station at the south tip of Ross Island. It was austral summer and the temperature outside hovered around -4 degrees Celsius.