UW Automatic Weather Stations - 2023

Regions:Years: Ross Ice Shelf
Stations (2023):

Skomik PCWS AWS

Owner: UW/MATC UW/MATC
Site Code: SKO
Initial Start Date: 2022-01-26
Installed: 2022-01-26
Latitude: -79.794 S
Longitude: 170.452 E
Elevation: 54 meters


AWS Model: MATC


Notes: Skomik PCWS is named after an island that Ed Mikolajczyk (David Mikolajczyk’s dad) and his late best friend Mark Skogseth often visited. They named it “Skomik Island” and is a combination of the beginning of their last names. Skomik PCWS is a Polar Climate and Weather Station, developed as part of a collaborating project between Madison College and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It is collocated with Schwerdtfeger AWS and a Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) AWS.