Dome A is an Antarctic plateau 1.200 kilometers inland, and is thought to be one of the coldest naturally occurring places on Earth with temperatures believed to reach minus 90 degrees Celsius.

The researchers pinpointed a site, known simply as Ridge A that is 4.053 metres high up on the Antarctic Plateau. The study revealed that Ridge A has an average winter temperature of minus 70 ...

Antarctic scientists have extracted what is ... four field seasons in the harsh environment of the central Antarctic plateau. They worked at an altitude of 3,200 meters above sea level and with ...

A satellite survey using infrared measurements estimated a surface temperature of -136 degrees on the Antarctic Plateau, near a mountain range. Infrared measurements, however, do not count in the ...

Ground temperatures in East Antarctica have soared more than 50 degrees (28 Celsius) above normal in the second major heat ...

Three kilometers above sea level at the bottom of the world is a near-unbearably cold desert. The icy landscape is featureless and flat; useful in the height of summer when the mercury climbs to ...

The Franco-Italian research base Concordia, installed in Dome C of the Antarctic Plateau at an altitude of more than 3,000 meters, recorded last Friday a “heat” of 11.5°C below zero ...

The LRSG group is primarily working on projects related to four fields: Arctic and Antarctic sea ice and its ecosystem and climate connection Assessment of water resources in the Tibetan Plateau ...