The Antarctic Automatic Weather Station (AWS) Project is an Antarctic research program at the Space Science and Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin–Madison that is funded by the Office of Polar Programs at the National Science Foundation (NSF). The AWS project was started in 1980 by UW-Madison atmospheric sciences Professor Charles R. Stearns.[1]
Currently, the UW-Madison AWS project operates and maintains 57 automated weather stations in Antarctica, more than half of all stations currently known to be operating on the continent.
Automated weather stations have multiple different sensors that measure temperature, wind speed and direction, relative humidity, and pressure.[2]
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