Publications from the FROST Project

The following documents on FROST have been published

General description of the project and early results:

Turner, J., D. Bromwich, S. Colwell, S. Dixon, T. Gibson, T. Hart, G. Heinemann, H. Hutchinson, K. Jacka, S. Leonard, M. Lieder, L. Marsh, S. Pendlebury, H. Phillpot, M. Pook, and I. Simmonds, (In Press): The Antarctic First Regional Observing Study of the Troposphere (FROST) project. Bull. Amer. Met. Soc. - To appear in the September 1996 issue.

The re-analysis procedure:

Hutchinson, H., 1996, First Regional Observing Study of the Troposphere South of Latitude 50 S (FROST). Analysis procedures, in Meighen, P. J., and Jasper, J. D., eds., Data assimilation in Meteorology and Oceanography: Papers Presented at the Sixth Annual BMRC Modelling Workshop, October 1994. BMRC Research Report No. 52: Melbourne, Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre, p. 83-96.

Phillpot, H., 1994, 500 hPa contour field over East Antarctica in July 1993: Cambridge, SCAR PACA, v. FROST report no. 4, 25 p.

Data availability:

Colwell, S., and J. Turner, 1993, The first FROST trial period - a summary of reports received over the GTS between 5-9 July 1993: Cambridge, SCAR PACA, v. FROST report number 1, 14 p.

FROST plans:

Turner, J., 1994, The FROST implementation plan: Cambridge, SCAR PACA, v. FROST report no. 2, 21 p.

Copies of any of these papers can be obtained from John Turner (J. Turner@BAS.AC.UK).