Recovery and Initial Examination of
the Arrival Heights and Birdlings Flat MF Radar Data Record
and G. J. Fraser
The goal of the project is
to study the seasonal and intra-seasonal behaviour of the wave-driven
circulation in the middle atmosphere, particularly its dependence on major
disturbances from the troposphere and stratosphere which result in the transport
of energy and momentum by waves to the higher altitudes.
An initial examination of the significance of trends in the
18-year span of Scott Base observations and the 30-year span of data from
Birdlings Flat, it is worthy of note that this is the longest data record in the
world, of the mesospheric wind will also be made.
The project will be
broken into two components:
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Recovery of historical data - much of the data pre-1992 is at present in an
old format which needs to be recovered. This data also needs to be transferred
into an easily-readable format for future use.
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Initial examination of the seasonal variation and trends in the data then
needs to be performed.
Skills acquired: This project will require the student to have some
experience of a scientific programming language, such as C, Fortran, or Matlab.
Ths student will gain
experience of scientific programming and a knowledge of database development.
The student will also gain a greater appreciation of the importance of long data
records and the statistical methods used to examine trends and changes.
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