Four weeks of climate data: Antarctica Region #4

The fourth slice of Antarctica has the least land mass of the sections so far and only 17 weather stations total. Since 1955 to 2010 covers 56 years, there are 224 seasons to track. The most seasons any of the weather stayed open for is 90. There is not enough data to make discuss the trends in this area.

To compare this sparse coverage to another part of Antarctica, the first region (the one directly south of Africa and Madagascar) has on 22 weather stations covering a much larger area, but two of those stations were able to give readings in over 190 seasons out of 224, so those grid points gave us useful data.

Tomorrow, we move to the next region, just south of Tierra Del Fuego and the Falkland Islands, a region that has at least two grid points we can use for reliable data.