Automatic Weather Stations

Latitude	84.25 degrees South
Longitude	170.00 degrees West
Altitude
Model Type	CR1000
Start Date	February 2009
Notes	Sabrina is named after the daughter of AWS project PI John Cassano.
Field Station Report History	Installed Sabrina on 2/2/2009 1:30 pm (approximate ground time was 2.5 hours). Team: Shelley, Melissa, Kevin Emery (FSTP) Pilots: Lexi and Rory Beautiful day on the field, and a beautiful location with the mountains in the background. Temperature was fairly warm and there was no wind. The area is crevasse free so it's pretty safe. The South Pole traverse was very nearby - we could see their tracks and flags. We stopped at Moody Glacier on the way out and back to refuel. Took about 4.5 hours to get out to Sabrina from McMurdo. Site was a new install. Put one 5' base and 1 7' tower section on top. Added solar panel, temperature/RH sensor, RM Young, junction box, CR1000, ADG, and lower temperature sensor for ADG. Also added white wand antenna. Added 2 battery boxes measured at 12.7 volts each. Once the tower was up, we could not get a transmission for about 20 minutes. We began troubleshooting by rebooting the system, unplugging and re-plugging the antenna in, but nothing happened. We had just pulled out the toughbook and an extra antenna and suddenly got a transmission. We verified 3 transmissions before we left. One very important note. We did not have a handheld gps with us. The one we had was packed in our WAIS cargo, and we could not retrieve another one before we left in the morning despite various attempts. While we talked to the pilots and know where true north was so that the boom is facing that direction, the RM Young could easily be off by several degrees, and we had no way of verifying how far off it was. The UNAVCO GPS was up from 1:30-4 pm.

Past Two Days of Weather Observations	Text Data Meteogram
Weather data archive	Archived Sabrina AWS Data AWS Climate Data by Year

Sabrina AWS site before installation, 2009 (Courtesy of Shelley Knuth)- Click to enlarge