Participants in the Antarctic FROST Project

The British Antarctic Survey

The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is responsible for archiving most of the data collected within FROST and holds all the surface and upper-air synoptic observations and hardcopy versions of the routine surface pressure, 500 hPa and 250 hPa height charts prepared by the UK Meteorological Office.

The Byrd Polar Research Center, Ohio State University

The Byrd Polar Research Center, Ohio State University have been concerned with assessment of the US National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) analyses and forecasts.

The Bureau of Meteorology, Hobart, Australia.

The Hobart office of the Australian Bureau of Meteorology undertook the considerable task of preparing the manually analysed surface and upper air charts for the Special Observing Periods and have also been involved in the intercomparison of analyses and forecasts from the different forecast centres.

The Australian Antarctic Cooperative Research Centre, Hobart, Tasmania

The Antarctic Cooperative Research Centre have helped in the re-analysis exercise and have also assessed the value of some of the new forms of satellite data.

The Meteorologisches Institut, University of Bonn, Germany

The Meteorologisches Institut, University of Bonn, Germany are responsible for processing passive microwave data and derived several meteorological products from these data over the ice-free ocean.

School of Earth Sciences,The University of Melbourne, Australia

Members of this group have used automatic depression tracking software to examine the movement of synoptic-scale low pressure systems during the SOPs.