ICE STATION

For more than fifty years, Halley Research Stationlocated on the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarcticas Weddell Seahas collected a contin uous stream of meteorological and atmospheric data critical to our understanding of polar atmospheric chemistry, rising sea levels, and the depletion of the ozone layer. Since the stations establishment in 1956, there have been six Halley stations, each designed to withstand the difficult climatic conditions. The first four stations were crushed by snow. The fifth featured a steel platform, a llowing it to ...[Leer más]