Credit: Image courtesy of Colin Jenkinson, Australia Bureau of Meteorology
Sun Dog at West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS). Beginning in late November 2015, a set of ARM equipment was deployed to the WAIS, including basic radiometric, surface energy balance, and upper air equipment, to make the first well-calibrated climatological suite of measurements seen in this extremely remote, but globally critical, region in more than 40 years. These measurements provided an unprecedented, detailed view of the atmospheric and surface energy balance changes that occurred at the WAIS resulting from an extensive surface melt event that took place upwind from the site.