British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is one of the world's leading environmental research centres and is responsible for the UK's national scientific activities in Antarctica.


The Meteorological Airborne Science INstrumentation (MASIN) equipment has been flown on the British Antarctic Survey Twin Otter VPF-AZ for several field campaigns, operating out of Rothera Research Station.



Photo by Rod Arnold


This work forms part of the FOCAS project within the Antarctic Climate and Earth System programme (ACES). FOCAS looks at interactions between atmosphere, sea-ice and ocean at high southern latitudes.


During each season we update a basic diary which can be viewed from the links above. There is also access to graphs from the data.