Highly supercooled riming and unusual triple-frequency radar signatures over McMurdo Station, Antarctica by F. Tridon, F. Tridon, I. Silber, A. Battaglia, A. Battaglia, A. Battaglia, S. Kneifel, S. Kneifel, A. Fridlind, P. Kalogeras, P. Kalogeras, R. Dhillon

“…</p> <p>In this work, by exploiting the deployment of an unprecedented number of multiwavelength remote sensing systems (including triple-frequency radar measurements) in West Antarctica, during the Atmospheric Radiation Measurements West Antarctic Radiation Experiment (AWARE) field campaign, we evaluate the riming incidence at McMurdo Station and find that riming occurs at much lower temperatures when compared to previous results in the mid-latitudes. …”
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Japanese geochemical studies on the McMurdo Sound region in Antarctica during the 1983-84 austral summer by Genki I. Matsumoto, Tetsuya Torii, Tamio Kawano, Tsurahide Cho, Yoshiharu Kobata

“…The lakes and ponds in the Labyrinth (18 ponds), South Fork (3), near Lake Vanda (2), and sorroundings of McMurdo Station (2) studied were generally small and thus chlorinity varied considerably during these 10 years. …”
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Installation of Neutron Monitors at the Jang Bogo Station in Antarctica by Jongil Jung, Suyeon Oh, Yu Yi, Paul Evenson, Roger Pyle, Geonhwa Jee, Jeong-Han Kim, Changsup Lee, Jongdae Sohn

“…The installation of neutron monitor at Jang Bogo station is a part of transferred mission for neutron monitor at McMurdo station of USA. Among 18 tubes of 18-NM64 neutron monitor, we have completed relocation of 6 tubes and the rest will be transferred in December 2017. …”
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Obituary—Dr Jim Lowry by Penelope B. Berents

“…Jim spent two winters at the New Zealand base on Ross Island near McMurdo Station. … (cont.)…”

Effects of Vertically Propagating Mountain Waves During a Strong Wind Event Over the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica by Chenoli, Sheeba Nettukandy, Turner, John, Samah, Azizan Abu

“…AMPS simulations as well as upper air sounding profiles from McMurdo station showed the involvement of large amplitude vertically propagating mountain waves over the area. …”

Deep ice drilling, bedrock coring and dust logging with the Rapid Access Ice Drill (RAID) at Minna Bluff, Antarctica by John W. Goodge, Jeffrey P. Severinghaus, Jay Johnson, Delia Tosi, Ryan Bay

“…During field trials near McMurdo Station on a piedmont glacier at Minna Bluff in the 2019–20 austral summer, we successfully completed a ‘top-to-bottom’ operational sequence in three boreholes by (1) augering through firn, (2) creating a borehole packer seal in non-porous ice, (3) establishing fluid circulation, (4) quickly drilling a borehole in ice at penetration rates up to 1.2 m min−1, (5) acquiring a short ice core at depth, (6) penetrating the glacial bed at a depth of ~677 m, (7) recovering a 3.2 m core of ice, basal till and subglacial bedrock, (8) optically logging the borehole on wireline, (9) testing hydrofracture potential by overpressuring the borehole fluid and (10) operating in an environmentally benign yet rapid field mode. …”
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Intercomparison of polar ozone profiles by IASI/MetOp sounder with 2010 Concordiasi ozonesonde observations by J. Gazeaux, C. Clerbaux, M. George, J. Hadji-Lazaro, J. Kuttippurath, P.-F. Coheur, D. Hurtmans, T. Deshler, M. Kovilakam, P. Campbell, V. Guidard, F. Rabier, J.-N. Thépaut

“…In this paper, ozone observations provided by the Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI) instrument onboard the polar-orbiting satellite MetOp are compared with ozone profiles collected between August and October 2010 at McMurdo Station, Antarctica, during the Concordiasi measurement campaign. …”
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Sea Ice Freeboard in the Ross Sea from Airborne Altimetry IcePod 2016–2017 and a Comparison with IceBridge 2013 and ICESat 2003–2008 by Liuxi Tian, Hongjie Xie, Stephen F. Ackley, Kirsty J. Tinto, Robin E. Bell, Christopher J. Zappa, Yongli Gao, Alberto M. Mestas-Nuñez

“…As part of the Polynyas and Ice Production in the Ross Sea (PIPERS) project, the IcePod system onboard the LC-130 aircraft based at McMurdo Station was flown over the Ross Sea, Antarctica in November 2016 and 2017, with the purpose of repeating the same lines that NASA’s Operation IceBridge (OIB) aircraft flew over in 2013. …”
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Impact of downward longwave radiative deficits on Antarctic sea-ice extent predictability during the sea ice growth period by Ivana Cerovečki, Rui Sun, David H Bromwich, Xun Zou, Matthew R Mazloff, Sheng-Hung Wang

“…For example, a recent comparison of ECMWF reanalysis 5th generation (ERA5) global reanalysis with the observations from McMurdo Station revealed a year-round deficit in DLW of approximately 50 Wm ^−2 in marine air masses due to model shortages in supercooled cloud liquid water. …”
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High summertime aerosol organic functional group concentrations from marine and seabird sources at Ross Island, Antarctica, during AWARE by J. Liu, J. Dedrick, J. Dedrick, L. M. Russell, G. I. Senum, J. Uin, C. Kuang, S. R. Springston, W. R. Leaitch, A. C. Aiken, D. Lubin

“…From November 2015 to December 2016, the ARM West Antarctic Radiation Experiment (AWARE) measured submicron aerosol properties near McMurdo Station at the southern tip of Ross Island. Submicron organic mass (OM), particle number, and cloud condensation nuclei concentrations were higher in summer than other seasons. …”
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Variations in boundary layer stability across Antarctica: a comparison between coastal and interior sites by M. J. Dice, M. J. Dice, M. J. Dice, J. J. Cassano, J. J. Cassano, J. J. Cassano, G. C. Jozef, G. C. Jozef, G. C. Jozef, M. Seefeldt, M. Seefeldt

“…(above ground level), present in radiosonde observations from two continental-interior (South Pole Station and Dome Concordia Station) and three coastal (McMurdo Station, Georg von Neumayer Station III, and Syowa Station) Antarctic sites, is examined using the self-organizing maps (SOMs) neural network algorithm. …”
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A study of optical scattering modelling for mixed-phase polar stratospheric clouds by F. Cairo, T. Deshler, L. Di Liberto, A. Scoccione, M. Snels

“…Here we consider a set of 15 coincident measurements of PSCs above McMurdo Station, Antarctica, using ground-based lidar, a balloon-borne optical particle counter (OPC) and in situ observations taken by a laser backscattersonde and OPC during four balloon stratospheric flights from Kiruna, Sweden. …”
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