Davis Station Winter Scientific Report 1989

A 1989 report documents winter scientific work at Davis Station in Antarctica, authored by Simon Townsend. It covers topics including the Tierny Drainage System, Ellis Fjord temperature and salinity data, and in-situ chlorophyll-a profiles. The report includes appendices on instrumentation and software.

Use Cases

• Analyze Ellis Fjord temperature and salinity data for long-term climate studies.
• Study the hypersaline density current hypothesis using the Tierny Drainage System report.
• Examine in-situ chlorophyll-a profiles from Ellis Fjord for biological productivity research.
• Review appendices on Platypus software and Seabird instrument notes for historical instrumentation context.

Strengths

• Report covers multiple scientific topics from a single Antarctic wintering year.
• Includes specific data on Ellis Fjord temperature, salinity, and chlorophyll-a profiles.
• Contains detailed appendices on instrumentation and deployment advice.

Limitations

• Data is from a single year (1989), limiting temporal analysis.
• Report is a scanned document, requiring text extraction for computational analysis.
• Specific quantitative data (rows, columns, file size) is unknown.

Provenance

Source

AU_AADC via nasa_earthdata platform.

Collection Method

Scanned copy of a written scientific report.

Time Range

Wintering year of 1989.

Geography

Davis Station, Antarctica, specifically Ellis Fjord and Organic Lake.