Location

Dome C is an ice dome rising to more than 3200 m in the featureless snow plateau of Wilkes Land, East Antarctica. Called "Dome C" the feature was the site of ice core drilling by field teams of several nations in the 1970's. Simultaneously, it was called Dome Charlie (communications code word for letter C) by U.S. Naval Support Force, Antarctica which provided logistical support to the field teams. In deciding the name, the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) considered Dome Charlie to be superior to the informal name, "Dome C" and that it has precedence over "Dome Circe" a name suggested from Greek mythology by members of the SPRI airborne radio echo sounding team in 1982. Dome C was chosen as drilling site for the European Project for Ice Coring in Antartica (EPICA) during the period 1996-2005.

(From https://geonames.usgs.gov)

Data sheet

Model: Vaisala Milos 520
Mast: 3 m

• Wind Speed and Direction
• Heated Wind Speed and Direction
• Ultrasonic Wind Sensor WS425
• Temperature and Relative Humidity
• Atmospheric Pressure

• 1 flash 4 MB

• Net from Concordia (220V)

• Argos satellite
• Radiomodem
• RS485 cable

Curiosities ...

Max Wind speed: 40.0 knots (74.1 Km/h) at 26 November 2022

Minimum temperature: -84.7 °C at 13 August 2010

Maximum temperature: -11.5 °C at 18 March 2022