Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Antarctic cold can not freeze

In the Antarctic expedition team among the phrase: but the Antarctic's wind homicide. To Antarctic will find that this is true.
Since we 1 transfer to ha DingShan since camp near, winds is almost never stopped, night and day with us forever. In living in tanks, always can hear the roar of wars, sometimes even accommodation will follow happen slight swing, originally I was worried about accommodation by wind unroofed, now's been accustomed to every day with wind roar, and sleep with wind scream wake up.

This is the Antarctic typical "down wind". Due to the Antarctic continent is the central uplift around to tilt of the plateau, once a heavy cold Antarctic plateau along the smooth surface around to dive down, will suddenly blustery, a terrible polar storm is thus produced.

At 1800 meters to 3000 meters Antarctic plateau, this decline wind is particularly intense and frequent, while the average elevation in 2,000 meters above the GeLuoFuShan area just drop in vogue in the interval within.

Wind swept up on the ice, snowflake danced in the XueLi carefully, has formed the Antarctic peculiar "blowing snow". From snow face looks, "blowing snow" as if strips serpent, meandering crawl, meet obstacles will soared into the sky, so camp nearby saha rove, asing if is often take ridge top up intermittent white smoke.

Wind will soon take human body heat, make the person accident happened frostbite even freeze. Therefore, in the wind comes, the expedition will suspend field survey, camping to recover. This time we also found some wind "routine" laws -- are generally night to morning, afternoon until evening wind maximum wind smaller, fortunately have entered JiZhou Antarctic now is not the cent of day and night, we simply morning, afternoon or evening sleeping out of work.

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