Without the ice cover, Antarctica would rank as one of the lowest elevation continents on Earth [1]. The Byrd Subglacial Basin in western Antarctica, the lowest point on any of the Earth’s continental plates [2], lies 2,538 meters below sea level.
What is the Average Elevation of Antarctica?
The average elevation in Antarctica is 2,500 meters (8,200 feet). The South Pole is located at an elevation of 2,800 meters (9,300 feet).
What is the Highest Point in Antarctica?
The highest elevation in Antarctica is Mount Visson, with a peak of 4,892 meters (16,050 feet).
What is the Lowest Point in Antarctica?
The lowest point in Antarctica is Deep Lake, Vestfold Hills in East Antartica with a depth of -50 meters (−160 feet).
A closed lake, Deep Lake is hypersaline. This salinity keeps the lake liquid, even when the water temperatures drop to -20ºC [3].
https://www.geographyrealm.com/the-highest-continent/
What is the highest point on earth?
The highest point on earth is Mount Everest, Nepal – Tibet, China with a recorded height of 8,848 m (29,029 ft) (measured as height above sea level).
The lowest measured point on earth is the Dead Sea shore, Israel/Jordan.
What is the hottest place on earth?
The hottest place on earth is Al ‘Aziziyah, Libya which recorded a temperature of 57.8 °C (136.0 °F) on 13 September 1922.
Source: Global Weather & Climate Extremes ~ World Meteorological Organization
What is the coldest place on earth?
The coldest temperature ever recorded on Earth occurred was measured at -144°F (98° C) by satellite sensors in several spots on the East Antarctic Plateau which encompasses the South Pole.
Source: Coldest place on Earth is colder that scientists thought. (2018, June 25). Retrieved from https://news.agu.org/press-release/coldest-place-on-earth-is-colder-than-scientists-thought/
Vostok Station in Antarctica had a physically recorded low of -89.2 °C (-129 °F) on 21 July 1983.
Source: Global Weather & Climate Extremes ~ World Meteorological Organization
https://www.geographyrealm.com/geography-extremes/
What is the coldest place on Earth?
It is a high ridge in Antarctica on the East Antarctic Plateau where temperatures in several hollows can dip below minus 133.6 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 92 degrees Celsius) on a clear winter night.
Scientists made the discovery while analyzing the most detailed global surface temperature maps to date, developed with data from remote sensing satellites including the new Landsat 8, a joint project of NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Ted Scambos, lead scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo., joined a team of researchers reporting the findings Monday at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco.
https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2013/09dec_coldspot
https://www.amnh.org/learn-teach/curriculum-collections/antarctica/the-coldest-driest-windiest-highest-continent/some-background-on-antarctica
Greenhouse gases are warming the world—but chilling Antarctica. Here's why
https://www.science.org/content/article/greenhouse-gases-are-warming-world-chilling-antarctica-here-s-why
Odd trend stems from the icy continent’s extreme conditions
19 JUL 2018
BYSID PERKINS
Winter Cold Extremes Linked to High-Altitude Polar Vortex Weakening
https://www.weathernationtv.com/news/winter-cold-extremes-linked-high-altitude-polar-vortex-weakening/
Dome Fuji, Antarctica
Temperature: -93.2°C
When: August 2010
Vostok Research Station, Antarctica
Temperature: -89.2°C
When: July 1983
One of the coldest places on Earth is, weirdly, also one of the sunniest. In the month of December, the Vostok Research Station in Antarctica enjoys more than 22 hours of sunlight hours. Conversely, in the polar night, there are precisely zero hours of sunlight and Vostok records the lowest mean annual temperature of any weather station on the planet.
https://www.sciencefocus.com/planet-earth/what-are-the-10-coldest-places-on-earth/
Denali, Alaska
Temperature: -73.8°C
When: sometime between 1950 and 1969
https://www.sciencefocus.com/planet-earth/what-are-the-10-coldest-places-on-earth/
Oymyakon, Russia
Temperature: -67.8°C
When: February 1933
North Ice, Greenland
Temperature: -66.1°C
When: January 1954
Snag, Yukon, Canada
Temperature: -62.7°C
When: February 1947
https://www.sciencefocus.com/planet-earth/what-are-the-10-coldest-places-on-earth/
https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/wxwise/class/frntmass.html
https://www.britannica.com/science/highland-climate
https://www.weather.gov/source/zhu/ZHU_Training_Page/winds/Wx_Terms/Flight_Environment.htm
But, air masses aren't just two-dimensional. They are three-dimensional blobs of air, so when cold air advances at the surface, cold air at higher altitudes also advances on warm air. Therefore, the narrow frontal zone that separates the two contrasting air masses must extend upward from the surface. To see what I mean, focus your attention on the cross-sectional profile of an advancing continental-Polar air mass below. The cold front is steepest in the lowest several hundred meters of the atmosphere with a slope of about 1/100, meaning that elevation increases about 1 kilometer for every 100 kilometers of horizontal distance from the surface front. Then the upward slant relaxes into a much more gentle slope (e.g. 1/300). All along the upward slant of the cold wedge, cold air abuts with warmer air, creating an upward-slanting boundary characterized by large temperature contrasts.
Asynchronous glaciations in arid continental climate
Abstract
Mountain glaciers at ∼26-19 ka, during the global Last Glacial Maximum near the end of the last 105 yr glacial cycle, are commonly considered on the basis of dating and field mapping in several well-studied areas to have been the largest of the late Quaternary and to have advanced synchronously from region to region. However, a numerical sensitivity model (Rupper and Roe, 2008) predicts that the fraction of ablation due to melting varies across Central Asia in proportion to the annual precipitation. The equilibrium-line altitude of glaciers across this region likely varies accordingly: in high altitude, cold and arid regions sublimation can ablate most of the ice, whereas glaciers fed by high precipitation cannot ablate completely due to sublimation alone, but extend downhill until higher temperatures there cause them to melt. We have conducted field studies and 10Be dating at five glaciated sites along a precipitation gradient in Mongolia to test the Rupper/Roe model. ...
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018QSRv..182....1B/abstract
https://www.ntschools.org/cms/lib/NY19000908/Centricity/Domain/112/Air%20Masses3.pdf
Weather station in Antarctica records high of 65, the continent's hottest temperature ever
An Argentinean research station on the tip of Antarctica's peninsula has reached a record high temperature — and scientists say there are many factors at play.
https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/weather-station-in-antarctica-records-high-of-65-the-continents-hottest-temperature-ever/676772
https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/field/climate/
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