Expeditioners from the Australian Government Department of the Environment and Energy’s Antarctic Division have travelled to one of the snowiest places in Antarctica to defrost a remote weather station.

It took a team from Casey research station, one of Australia’s three permanent research stations in Antarctica, four days for a round trip to the summit of Law Dome to assess the state of the automatic weather station there.

One of the eight-person team was Craig Butsch, a senior observer with the Bureau of Meteorology. Butsch said that Law Dome is basically a very flat rounded mountain with a perfectly circular base.

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The South Asian summer monsoon directly affects the lives of around one billion people, providing 80% of annual rainfall in the region. The 2019 monsoon caused significant flooding in some parts of India. Gaining a greater understanding of this force of nature is the focus of a major initiative between India and the UK.

WCSSP India – a Weather and Climate Science for Service Partnership between the UK Met Office and the Indian Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) aspires to reduce the risk of monsoon-related disasters.

The development of weather and climate services is becoming increasingly important in addressing some of the biggest global challenges of our time, including disaster risk reduction, global security, economic development and social welfare.

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