Fwd: Looking for Antarctica weather data

[Jenny Baeseman]

If anyone can help Kshitija please feel free to contact her.

This is probably one of those great things that the email lists could be used for for the various disciplines....

If anyone wants to have a topic email list - please tell me the name you would like (ie. Sea...@apecs.is) and I can create that for you and give you admin rights. We can then figure out how to populate those lists, etc.

Perhaps this is a good thing to discuss for the next RAC Call?

jenny

Begin forwarded message:

From: Kshitija Deshpande <kshi...@vt.edu>

Date: March 8, 2010 4:20:21 PM GMT+01:00

To: Jenny Baeseman <jbae...@gmail.com>

Subject: Looking for Antarctica weather data

Dr. Baeseman,

I am a graduate student in Virginia Tech university. I am working on a project
where we plan to install a chain of GPS receivers in Antarctica to study
ionospheric scintillations. Kelly Sovacool from National University of
Singapore suggested me that I should contact the APECS group to seek help in
finding weather / radiosonde data from Antarctica, which we need in designing
our inter-station communications system. Would you kindly guide me on this?

More specifically, we are interested in knowing the temperature gradient as well
as refractive index gradient in the air close to the ice surface (In the region
0 - 100 m above ice). From the little data we have managed to find, we predict
presence a temperature inversion layer. This layer could possibly be used to
communicate between the stations through a mode of radio propagation called
"creeping waves". I have looked at many major websites and spoken to experts
working in GIS. But, unfortunately, I could not find any data at such lower
heights above the ice.

I will be extremely thankful to you if you can suggest me some resources or
direct me to someone who can help me with this quest.

Looking forward to hearing back from you.

Thanks,
Kshitija

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Kshitija Deshpande
Graduate Student
Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University,
Blacksburg, VA 24061.

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